| 单词 | roots |
| 例句 | There’s a balcony on the second floor that seems to have a rail of thick roots in place of iron. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z All around me, clothes looked like they’d sprouted roots and bloomed on their hangers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z They came out upon a small open place where a giant spruce had crashed to the ground and left a hollow where the roots had been, filled now with drifted dry leaves and spruce needles. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She roots through her kitchen drawer for a packet of incense. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I ran my fingers through his hair, trying to stand it up at the roots. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Chubs and I cringed as Liam hit the ground and knocked his head against one of the old trees’ roots. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z This is best experienced by looking them up, preferably in one of the dictionaries that provide all the roots back to the original, hypothetical fossil language of proto-Indo-European, and observing their behavior. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Joe noted the scant dozen of shame faced houses scattered in the sand and palmetto roots and said, “God, they call this a town? Why, ’tain’t nothing but a raw place in de woods.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Three or four rosebushes with their roots tied in burlap were propped against the fence. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I knelt down in the water, my fingers digging into the soft mud, and I pulled up handfuls of the roots. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z If my roots stretched past the property line that separated them, well, that’s never been my concern. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The roots thickened until he looked like he was wearing wooden boots. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Everything hurts—my skin, my bones, my fingernails, even the roots of my hair. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I felt ’round to see if maybe I could get ahold of a chunking stone and go down fighting, but my fingers waren’t running over nothing but more roots and twigs. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “Get these open as quick as you can,” he said, “and send two rabbits to find out what’s behind the tree roots beyond. If they’re attacked you’re to go and join in at once.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And so Bono and I, Clippinger and Olakunde lay that night in the mud of the marsh, flies thick upon our heads, roots around our fingers, guns lain in leaves upon the shore. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Hundreds and thousands of roots and shoots can solve the problems, change the world, and make it a better place to live. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z As the tree went over it pulled earth, balled in its roots, with it, and made a large hole back in, under the shelf of rocks. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Mabel had given the girl her own supper portion and spooned potlikker and roots into her trembling lips until she opened her eyes again. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Trying to find his way out, Bilbo went on down to the roots of the mountains, until he could go no further. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z When they figured it was about midnight, they stopped to rest for a few minutes and to eat the last of their gorgonbladder roots. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Using a rake made from a stick of red willow pulled up by the roots, the two girls took turns turning the rice over and over, smoking and toasting the grains. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Mason jars filled with roots and herbs on the counter. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Coach murmurs, “Fencing has aristocratic roots. But you belong here. We all do.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Harry tipped the powdered beetles into his cauldron and started cutting up his ginger roots. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Rue's pack holds my sleeping bag, her nearly empty water skin, a handful of nuts and roots, a bit of rabbit, her extra socks, and her slingshot. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Its gnarled roots twisted in and out of the earth like a nest of slow brown serpents, and hundreds of old copper pennies had been nailed to its huge trunk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Thorns and roots clawed at him from the sides and above his head, tearing at his hair, skin, and the decoy mask still attached to the back of his head. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z But the cave...He stared at the dark opening between the tree roots. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Are there roots here every day?” asked Hazel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ma don’t need any Indian roots and berries,” Big Ma said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The roots sank so deep that the vine was nearly impossible to remove. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Half in a dream he wandered forward to the riverward side of the tree, where great winding roots grew out into the stream, like gnarled dragonets straining down to drink. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z In Cuba, we see guests competing against Cubans in dominoes, and a line for sugar cubes, and Rufus cheers for his roots. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Already they seemed to have been tramping on, on, endlessly to the mountains’ roots. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z At last, I managed to pull the comb through my hair from roots to ends. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z To stay alive, I need a vast network of roots. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I pour the leftover dirt into Claudia's pot, and then place the roots in the middle, pressing the soil around it. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Trees with old and twisted roots hung over cliffs, and piled up behind into mounting slopes of pine-wood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z They shake instead, remaining fixed in place like deep roots. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Missed upended trees, roots facing sky not earth. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z On July 14, he began consuming the pealike seedpods of the plant as well, probably because the roots were becoming too tough to eat. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Another thing that might have been, snipped at the roots as if by one of Dr. Stevens’s surgical blades. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Resentment and race subdy stand in their way, as does a lingering attachment to Mexico, which is so close that many immigrants do not put down deep roots here. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I had not realised how closely the trees grew together here, their roots stretching across the path like tendrils ready to trip one. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The roots began to move, digging deeper as they touched the earth, anchoring the oak until it looked like it had stood in that spot for centuries. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She's gathered quite a collection of roots, nuts, greens, and even some berries. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z After I had gathered enough roots and bulbs and smoked enough fish to last Alice and me for a couple of months, I began it. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z To my left, thick roots were layered on top of one another, going up and back like stadium seating, which, I realized while looking around, was exactly what it was. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z If I succumbed to it, the hatred’s roots would choke me; its thorns would embed in my soul, until it truly became mine. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She stepped out of the shelter of the roots and faced them directly. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Later that night, after a scanty meal of sweet roots, they told her why they had been so anxious about the wheels. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Her stick caught at roots knotted under the earth of the path, and she stumbled from time to time. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A giggling woman raced past him, naked beneath a dark cloak, her drunken pursuer stumbling over tree roots. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The quadratic formula has been known for centuries; the ninth-century mathematician al-Khowarizmi knew how to solve almost every quadratic equation, though he didn’t seem to consider negative numbers as roots. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If identical twins possess a strong concordance for schizophrenia, say, while fraternal twins—born and bred in an identical environment—show little concordance, then the roots of that illness can be firmly attributed to genetics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The lower part of the long face was covered with a sweeping grey beard, bushy, almost twiggy at the roots, thin and mossy at the ends. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He swished the roots back and forth in the pond to wash off some dirt, then chomped and chewed. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z It has faded to a rusty brown, with blond roots. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z At the base of the devil tree, exposing its roots, was a deserted animal burrow. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In 1974, instead of reclaiming his roots by visiting Bursa, my father renounced them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Her twisted fingers looked like the rough old roots of a tree that had grown around a clay brick. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The dozen rich families have intermarried so many times that family trees are tangles of roots. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z My roots were my destiny, and I believed that I would become a counselor to the Thembu king, as my guardian wanted. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the spaces between the roots, I see not dirt but water, and metal rods holding the roots in place. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Down either side of his thighs he felt the sweet gum’s surface roots cradling him like the rough but maternal hands of a grandfather. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He clung to tree roots until someone heard his calls and hauled him out. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It is called Roots & Shoots because roots move gradually under the ground to make a firm foundation, and shoots seem small and weak, but to reach the light they can break open brick walls. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The blue silk shawl was spread open by her feet, and she had filled it with freshly dug roots and leaves from many different plants. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He questioned Strawberry about the great burrow and learned that its ceiling, as well as being vaulted with a tangle of fibers, was strengthened by roots going vertically down into the floor. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Somewhere right along here,” Justin remarked, “we’re entering the woods. You’ll notice the tunnel runs a bit crooked. We had to bend it to go around tap roots—some as thick as fence posts.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Ultima and I continued to search for plants and roots in the hills. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the conflict we saw, of course, wasn’t only a fixed feature of prison life; it had roots in Sing Sing’s frequent changes of officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “True creativity thrives on disorder, simply tucks in its roots and grows on chaos. I wouldn’t say no to a sweet sherry.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z But there are also stones down there, beetles and small roots, because this is the underside of the ground. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A wind buoyed me up over the roots, the rocks, the little hills. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Most had already sprouted in the previous weeks, but their little roots had not held them to the Reverend Farmer’s flat-as-Kansas beds against the torrent. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z "Indeed! With my plague! Half of Europe was decimated by the Black Death, forcing society to evolve! If not for that, you would still be digging for roots, a serf forever bound to your master." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z There was a path of sorts, a meandering footpath of cracked stones overgrown with moss, half-buried beneath blown dirt and fallen leaves and made treacherous by thick brown roots pushing up from underneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Elnora and I ministered to her with the juice of bitter roots and crushed flowers to purge her foul humors and ease the pains in her head. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Fish, roots, berries, nuts, rabbits. There’s a lot of food around the woods if you look for it, I guess.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Furthermore, I had a good supply of cattail roots I had dug in the marsh. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt like one of the oak trees that grew along the highway overlooking the Shenandoah Valley, with deep roots and a strong core. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z There wasn’t room for more than two of them, because of the roots and bushes and the creek bank. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Taking a cue from Kari’s book, McCandless started to dig and eat wild potato roots on June 24, apparently without ill effect. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He knows which knotty roots to leap over, where to turn, and where to pick up speed. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The dirt beneath was rich and marbled with the white roots of those plants which grow in darkness. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The trees in this area were thinner and richer in color, their roots carpeted with the delicate pink petals of flowers that looked to have finished their bloom a day or so before. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Having finished chopping his roots, Harry bent low over his book again. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The gangly white kid with rural roots was affable and intelligent, and it wasn’t long before he was voted vice president of the Corps. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I grabbed some roots on the bottom of the river and pulled myself slowly down until only my lips and nose were above water. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Cypress trees decorated the edges, their branches and roots leaning over as though welcoming them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “We love being American, celebrating holidays like Thanksgiving and July Fourth. But Halloween is a holiday with pagan roots, against the teachings of Islam.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z With Lettie and Ruthanne gone and no new prospects on who the Rattler might be, I was left with nothing to do but hunt down more roots, weeds, herbs, and bugs for Miss Sadie. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z She says the flowers have no scent and the waterfall has no water and the trees have no roots. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z She sat between the roots of the lime tree, clad in a one- piece smock of green girded with a quiver of arrows, and her feet and arms were bare. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I would save the roots and nuts for hard climbs, the places where nothing grew, the emergency should I not find the hut. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She was certain she could check it if she could find the same roots and herbs here on the island that had grown in Maryland. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “You said so yourself just last night: I’m an Okojo. I was born to be a warrior. It’s in my blood, same as it’s in yours. It’s in our roots. Kutoka mzizi, remember?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She fell in and out of the same dream she always had: ashes falling over the land, settling into the crevices between tree roots, dusting over every unfurled bud, smothering each hint of life. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Other plant foods included berries, fruits, seeds, leaves, shoots, bulbs, and roots. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When it was finally over—that first emergence, five or ten seconds that felt like an eternity—she’d fallen to her knees and lost her supper between the roots of a plum tree. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Of course in the towns where their families live they have whatever roots are possible—clubs, dances, love affairs, and murders. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Before them a pale lord in ebon finery sat dreaming in a tangled nest of roots, a woven weirwood throne that embraced his withered limbs as a mother does a child. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Veiny tree roots closed around it protectively, as if saving it from the destruction their brothers and sisters had faced. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z About fifty yards ahead a white-tailed deer was slowly picking his way across the snow-covered rocks and roots. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Maybe the roots are edible. The flowers, though. The flowers are poisonous.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z My knees buckled and I slid down the tree trunk to its roots. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Beyond, half-seen, were other shapes: shattered spires, headless statues, trees with roots bigger than their boat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She was just like a plant when its roots have gone completely dry. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z All that was left were the thorny roots digging into the bottom of the door to the next compartment. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z We came upon a street that was a scene out of the infernal regions, each house afire, a lane where demonic citizens might walk, capes black, bonnets bulging, baskets filled with mewling roots. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Pax found Bristle tucked into the earthy ball of its roots. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She knew what grass smelled like, a rich brew of dirt and green roots, right after rain. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She found an overhanging rock next to the roots of a spruce tree that clung to the side of the gorge, and settled herself beneath it to look around. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z When cattle eat the leaves of a grass, the plant will kill off some of its roots, to balance itself out. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z My dad’s truck rolls away, and I stand there like I plan on growing roots from the bottoms of my feet. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z The Amity sit on the floor, most with their legs crossed, in knots and clusters that vaguely resemble the tree roots to me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Staring at thick, twisted tree roots, I scan upward, seeing green extending higher, glowing against craggy granite and rock. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z She ran back to the tree and started digging in the soft ground close to the roots. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Teenie went back to digging for roots and plucking tomatoes then, not willing to discuss it any further. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z A thousand eyes, a hundred skins, wisdom deep as the roots of ancient trees. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Don’t be modest. You’ve got ancient roots. Greek as well as Roman. It’s no wonder Juno—” He tilted his head, as if listening to a voice from above. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Given this, it is important to remember music education’s history, origin and deep roots in the American education experience. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z They don’t have much top, but lots of knotty roots, shaped sort of like sweet potatoes. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z It jabbed at a place near the roots, and at once, the writhing tree became still. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I eased the shoots out of the earth and gently combed their roots apart. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z The alternative was even worse—that it was proof Yakov was growing more and more powerful, laying down his roots. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The jagged roots, acting as a drag, had stopped it from falling all the way into the stream. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked back at the roots and thought how I had to show my gramps I had heart. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z He sailed down the path, dodging roots, whooping and laughing. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Scientists think that morels are a mycorrhizal species that live on the roots of the pine trees. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Botanically, Chimaphila umbellata. It stays green all winter, and makes a very useful spring tonic. Most people use only the leaves, but I have found the roots even more effective.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z There was a clearing directly in front of her, at the center of which an enormous tree thrust up, its thick roots rumpling the ground ten feet around in every direction. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Some children’s singing games have their roots in circle dances, while others reflect social traditions of courtship and marriage, friendship, overcoming childhood fears, or just expressing the fun and merriment of childhood. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z We were doing okay until we hit the tree roots. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He could not react in any other way to the chin pat, for the roots of this signal lay deep in wolf history. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Glancing over his shoulder, he stepped onto the brown lawn that blanketed my roots. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Hairy plants sent bleached roots out of tiny pots. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Like him, I’d seen screechers digging near blue willow roots now and then. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Her hair was mostly as black as mine, with an inch of white roots. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z She had calabashes of water and boiled marula juice, a pot of toasted grasshoppers, a basket of tsenza roots, and a small grass mat covered with ripe bramble berries. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And humans had the cassava roots all to themselves, since pigs, porcupines, and other animals wouldn’t touch them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She liked Gothic details: mist hanging over a silent lake, gnarled roots heaving up from the earth, a solitary crow in the branches of a bare tree on the shoreline. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Its dark hurrying waters ran across the path before them, and joined the Silverlode in a swirl of dim pools among the roots of trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She said the plant had damaged its roots and no water could get to it. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Gnarled roots laced the ground, making a kind of bed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z When the family moved up north, Eugene had found that some of the other children at his school had roots in New York or Philadelphia or had been born right there in Chicago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Then, to my amazement, the bark on the tree roots near our feet began to twist and swirl. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “Hungry. Always you are hungry. Why did you not dig yourself a few lotus roots while you dawdled by the river? Many such brats as you get nothing else and think themselves well off.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I let him drift off to sleep then and attend to my own needs, wolfing down a supper of groosling and roots while I watch the daily report in the sky. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Now that I’m an adult with my own home, I decided to get in touch with my roots by purchasing my own watering can for my bathroom. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I wanted to stretch my roots just a tiny bit farther before the night was through. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z There are uncountable snakes at the base of the tree, biting at the roots. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z "Don’t stop cranking,” Dad shouted at him, "or your tonsils will be next. I’ll pull them out by the roots, myself. Crank, by jingo, crank.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no sound but the creaking of the wagon as it floundered through the sour-smelling mud and over mammoth tree roots. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z But then reflect that the vast majority of wild plants are unsuitable for obvious reasons: they are woody, they produce no edible fruit, and their leaves and roots are also inedible. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There’s an initial sense of impact followed by an explosion that resonates in my innermost parts, the lining of my intestines, the marrow of my bones, the roots of my teeth. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Then he lifted his head and peered cautiously above one of the great roots. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But it was also the political problem with the deepest social and economic roots in the new nation, so that removing it threatened to disrupt the fragile union just as it was congealing. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Because I don’t know how to make it. Many years ago, my family used to work the roots, like yours. But before I was born, they made a decision to leave those ways behind.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z What are roots and how long have we had them? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Bando,” I say, “Pigs are omnivores. We’ve got to think snakes, fungi, grasshoppers, and big juicy moths as well as bulbs and roots.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I smile at her and touch her face, pulling the short hairs out and killing the roots of them. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z ‘What a hobbit needs with coney,’ he said to himself, ‘is some herbs and roots, especially taters — not to mention bread. Herbs we can manage, seemingly.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Their greens are good, and so are their roots—a little strong and milky, but you get used to that. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z We follow her onto the tree roots, where she sits and offers me the bowl of raspberries. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z A fistful of tubers had hit the Cloak over Ron’s head; the slimy green roots were suspended improbably in midair as Ron tried to shake them loose. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z My tabs hang off the cart like a tangle of roots as it rolls away. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The very word zero smacks of its Hindu and Arabic roots. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Maybe so, but right then Joe felt like a lint-headed fool, crazier than she and just as wild as he slipped into mud, tripped over black roots, scuffed through patches of dirt crawling with termites. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The rock was flat, almost like a platform, and was overhung by a large fig with roots snaking down on either side. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And these trees have deep roots, so grounded that even though they bend, they don’t break. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I pushed up into the guts of its roots where they had been yanked out of the ground. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The roots were everywhere, twisting through earth and stone, closing off some passages and holding up the roofs of others. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Ihe tree’s massive roots were large enough to use like a makeshift table, and some of the larger leaves served as plates. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z And once again they headed through the woods toward the strange yellow house, swiping limbs from their path and jumping over thick roots bursting through the earth. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z She had not stirred once, even with her body draped awkwardly over the roots of an old oak. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The digging was easy and although they often broke off to feed or merely to sit in the sun, before midday Hazel was out of sight and tunneling between the tree roots. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But do we know enough about the sunlight that warmed them, the soil in which they put down the roots, and the rabbits and lumberjacks they were lucky enough to avoid? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z On one side, Taran noticed, an alcove had been hollowed out; it was filled with roots, lichens, and mushrooms—the food stock, he guessed, of the melancholy inhabitant. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z However tall it grows, a tree is just a few pounds of living cells thinly spread between roots and leaves. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “No, no—tree roots. But, after all, you were underground all night.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z One was full of singers, enthroned like Brynden in nests of weirwood roots that wove under and through and around their bodies. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He sat by Cathy and chatted about the pieplant roots just come in. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A few little roots smacked Anya as she went, and she scraped her legs and feet on the bottom of the river a few times, but she mostly continued unobstructed. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He was buried with his family in Madrid, his descendants putting down roots in Spain that persisted into the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z His scalp was a riot of springy red hair just like Tom’s, and he kept patting it as though it might fall out if he didn’t push the roots back in. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The central plateau was his roots as an epidemiologist and a clinician, and a model of how a committed staff on a limited budget could raise the standard of health in the third world. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z But now the feelings were twisted, tangled roots, and all the names for the source of this growth were buried under English words, out of reach. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She tried to see where the roots emerged from the rock. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z After a while, without saying anything, I went to the side of the road and lay down on a pile of damp leaves between the tall, buttressed roots of a kapok tree. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The stone is strong, Bran told himself, the roots of the trees go deep, and under the ground the Kings of Winter sit their thrones. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Her hair, once an even curve from part to shoulder, was now unkempt and frizzled at the roots and tips, smooth only in the middle. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z They slipped through the narrow paths and alleys, over jutting roots and hard-packed dirt, turning left and then right and then left again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z For the infinite had already begun to gnaw at the roots of Western thought, thanks to Zeno of Elea, a philosopher reckoned by his contemporaries to be the most annoying man in the West. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z How could one or two or even a mouthful of angry tooth roots meet a wagonload of powhitetrash children, endure their idiotic snobbery and not feel less important? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally we come to an upturned tree stump with a red ribbon caught in its dead, gnarled roots. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z His concern for the rural poor came from his childhood in Sabalele, for his roots were deep and true, and he never lost them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Right now her sister, Angeline, was digging at the ground near spruce trees and cutting lengths of the roots, used to secure the house better and to finish baskets. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z They created dark ness in the middle of day, and shadows that distorted the path and made him stumble from time to time on roots and rocks. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “I still don’t think you should,” Bando says as I serve him the fish on a nice thin slab of slate, garnished with watercress and crisp daylily roots. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Standing on a cluster of roots is Johanna Reyes, her hair falling over the scarred half of her face. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The roots of the meeting had been planted more than two years earlier by the discovery of nuclear fission. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was just after dawn and the air was heavy with dew and Olanna wandered around in the damp coolness, under the green foliage of the forest, sidestepping thick roots. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They headed off along the bank, clambering over roots and rocks, weaving through thickets. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Several people curse as they trip on roots and fallen branches. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z In the center of the room is a tree in a giant water tank, lifted high above the floor so I can see the tangle of roots beneath it, strangely human, like nerves. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Maybe you’ve traveled to Jamaica and know that it has some roots in the Jamaican dialect, patois. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z And she could dig for roots in the forest, even run down some rabbits. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Others, with fingers as gnarled as tree roots, nevertheless moved with the grace of leaves in a summer breeze. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I walk along the river a little way, then sit down on a jumble of tree roots and look out across the dark water. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I spied a door, its bottom half covered in thick roots and thorny vines, and my spirits sank. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He hurried to the root cellar and packed his rucksack with enough nuts, venison jerky, and big potatolike Jerusalem artichoke roots to feed himself for three or four days. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I’ll always be attached to it, like a branch that’s growing farther and farther away but it doesn’t matter because its roots are a part of the tree’s roots. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Her black hair seems filleted with the band of white at its roots. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I squeeze my eyes shut and try to sink deeper into the moss, stretching out my arms and imagining they are tree roots. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z He stumbled over one of the bulging roots, and out of habit, instinct, I reached for him and caught him. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He yanked on them, pulling them up by the roots, which hung heavy with potatoes. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The tree stopped fighting, and Lupin, too, disappeared into the gap in its roots. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The pine shelves smelled sweet and clean, like they were fresh cut, and were filled with bottles and jars of roots and dried flowers. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z There was a space between two thick roots, partially covered by ferns. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z They’d roam the nearby forests and meadows, gathering mushrooms, digging up edible roots, catching frogs and occasionally running away from tigers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z For a while, we dig roots, we gather berries and greens, we devise a strategy in hushed voices. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z After soaking and peeling it, they arranged the long white roots into upright sprays in enamel tubs and passed single file through the village like immense lilies on slender, moving stalks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Huge knotted roots sprawled in the center of twisting, creeping shadows. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z She handed me a plant, which had a clump of dirt and roots at the base. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The brown color is dull and ashen at the roots. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He will return your family to its roots and bring you great honor.’” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z All spring the bombers come, every single night, their only goal seemingly to burn the city to its roots. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Zero clashed with one of the central tenets of Western philosophy, a dictum whose roots were in the number-philosophy of Pythagoras and whose importance came from the paradoxes of Zeno. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It did not rise out of his roots and come floating up. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z White mists began to rise and curl on the surface of the river and stray about the roots of the trees upon its borders. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Vines dangled from low-hanging branches, and roots dipped in and out of the water, while the treetops disappeared into blurry white, as if some supreme cartoonist had forgotten to finish drawing them. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The thought of being stuck with him made her want to rip all the plants out by their roots and throw them into the snow. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Now the hair was gray at the roots and chopped into a bob. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z From the inside walls of the house, she lifted down her careful bundles of roots, her bags of berries and dried, crumbled leaves, and long curls of inner bark of certain trees. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Mr. Freeman touched up the dark roots on the head of a lady school board member and asked if Principal Principal needed help. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I sigh and show him some roots to dig. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Nothing except the roots of the old peach tree...and a whole lot of earthworms and centipedes and insects living in the soil. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Finn fell asleep draped in Kittens and dreamed that the corn walked the earth on skinny white roots, liked to joke with the crows, and wasn’t afraid of anything. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Anthony was eager to steer the suffrage movement back to what she considered its more respectable roots. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She took many herbs and roots from her black bag and mixed them into the warm oily water. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In spite of himself, he felt an undeniable sense of relief as she slowly made her way to him, stepping over brambles and tree roots. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The book advises only that the roots of the wild potato are edible. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The roots snaked out in his direction, trying to follow. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Other than his mother, who sat in her shack with six. younger sons working roots, he had never met an interesting woman in his life. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The roots of this flower are very good if you boil them long enough to remove the peppery taste. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Fadi peered closely at the tree’s winding roots pushing up from the rich soil. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Until an entrance opens, like a cave, but really just mangled trees and roots in a massive pile. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z His face was in the pine needles where he could smell all the tree, from roots deep in the damp earth to the moonlight blue branches, the highest tips swaying in the wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It reminded her of times her mother had tried to teach her about herbs and roots and teas, but she had been too full of herself to pay much attention. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z But the roots seem to suddenly be springing up everywhere. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z There beneath the roots of soggy flowers were the bones of murdered pirates and dinosaurs, the eye of a unicorn turned to coal. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z They were passionate women, but their devotions were like roots; they were sunk into the past towards the old man. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Their roots bulked above the ground and the branches were twisted. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Fallen boulders and rotten trunks and the roots of gnarled trees left only a tight way to steer. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Kind of embarrassing. Anyway, that’s how a Roman legion got to China. The Romans eventually put down roots and built a new hometown called—” “Li-Jien,” Frank said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Their hair died at the roots and fell out in clumps, as if they had received radiation bums. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z You have to save every piece of flesh and give it a name and bury it near the roots of a tree so that the world won’t fall apart around you. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I stumble again and with my one weak arm I cling to the huge twisted roots of an oak. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z And like any war, this one also had roots that traveled deeply into the past. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I also check out a moist pocket by the stream for groundnuts and am rewarded with a string of three- inch nuts on the roots of one plant. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Her small fingers pulled an old honey tin out from near the roots of the tree, and she sat back with a tremendous grin. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Doc motioned for us to sit while he showed us how to measure the strength of the herbs and roots that would go into the potions and incense he made. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She pulled on her rope to get close to the willow roots. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “How can a number have roots?” he told Mr. Keeney, the homeroom teacher who was also his math instructor. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Derivatives not obviously connected with the Latin roots are given in the last paragraph of each section. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z “While you gaze at the sea,” I said, “I dig roots. And it is I who will eat them and you who will not.” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z For this reason and because I wanted him to help me gather roots and not go running off, I said nothing about the shell I saw or the gull with folded wings. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He thinks about roots, about first and second languages. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It is also said that “one of the roots goes up to Asgard.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Though his hair was as blue as his son’s, he had red roots and redder eyebrows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And what if they do go into the roots of the peach tree? James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z We helped her pick flowers and roots that she would mix with water and rum to make perfume. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “In here are the blackened bones of the lion and leopard, along with other powerful roots and herbs.” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z I slowed, crawling over thick branches that arched through the air like tentacles before diving into the fertile soil and becoming roots. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It ran wild in the Big Woods, living on acorns and nuts and roots. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of roots, a small, muddy, and extremely ugly baby popped out of the earth. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Large rodents nosed among the roots and munched contentedly on fallen nuts. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “The sort of things you’ve seen me and your gran doing since you were young, that’s only part of what working the roots is about,” Doc said. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It is roots sucking deep at the earth, and the pale, sightless creatures that live below the ground. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z One of them reached out to her, and her fingers resembled roots twisting up from them ground. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Eating the roots of beauty is a—” Madame Crommelynck sank back into her creaky throne, tired out. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The hills were replanted at great expense, but in another year the new roots, too, were found to be dead. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z My father was Lithuanian but my mother’s family had German roots. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z With that, he gave a number of furious kicks against the tree roots. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Darkness hung from the canopy like black curtains, and as Tanin’s eyes adjusted, she picked her way among sprawling roots and rotting logs until she reached a clearing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I noticed how, nearby, the roots to a big sweet gum tree, exposed by erosion in the riverbank, suddenly looked like a swarm of snakes slithering into the water. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z But no Proto-Indo-European word can be reconstructed for “gun,” which uses different roots in different modern Indo-European languages: “gun” in English, “fusil” in French, “ruzhyo” in Russian, and so on. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The roots, you suspect, are accurate measures of how long she’s been here. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z We get in and set out on our familiar, unfamiliar street and head off into a world where fresh roots are already growing deep in the fertile ruins of what used to be. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He snuggled down between the roots of the tree, trying to find a comfortable place where the hard wood did not stick into his shoulder-blades. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was morning: The sun shone down in long beams of light, raising the dew from the ground in misty breaths that lingered in the hollows between tree roots. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Ferris turned down a rutted dirt road, made even bumpier by the roots that crisscrossed it like the veins on an old man’s hands. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He was staring at a shrub of silver-veined leaves clustered near the roots of a nearby tree. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He grabbed the oak tree and pulled it from the ground, roots and all. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The leafless trees trembled to their roots; the branches writhed as if in agony. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Remembering my unkept promise, I pried its roots from the earth with desperate fingers and filled my basket, hoping that Elnora would somehow find them there. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Alys tended her there, holding her head so that she could sip warm liquid made from chopped wild sunflower roots simmered in spring water. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I use a brush to paint the roots of Sophia's hair with the golden color. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I iced it for days, but it was super-stubborn, with roots so deep, they felt like they reached my skull. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Here the roof, latticed through and through with fine roots, was very strong. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra felt a blush from the roots of her hair to the soles of her feet; Pantalaimon became a brown moth to hide. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Her husband, on the other hand, was like an oak: “He may be torn up by the roots. He may break. But he will never bend.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I seasoned it with wild garlic and jack-in-the-pulpit roots. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I realized: while Mama didn’t work roots, she thought keeping the story about Daddy a secret was protecting us. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Only a few leaves were crushed, and the roots are fine. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There were several tree roots running across the roof and it was these that supported the unusual span. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And then my gramps and his friend came over and put their hands on the tree and laughed to each other and my gramps’s friend said: “Told you about these roots. Look at ’em.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Thus, instead of a way out for Bloom, Linda threatened to reaffirm the roots he badly wanted to destroy. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel had eaten various roots in his life, but only once before had he tasted carrot, when a cart horse had spilled a nose bag near the home warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They were in there somewhere, changing her friend’s thoughts, warping her feelings, gnawing at the roots of who she was. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The spider raced along and we were keeping up, but then we spotted a tunnel off to the side that was dug from raw earth, and wrapped in thick roots. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Both he and Wanda had roots in Nigeria, and many of Moss’s mother’s friends joked that Reverend Okonjo could have been her father in another life. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He picked one out and they turned it over, using the roots for leverage, until they got it half floating in the water. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z On the south playground we sit on the roots of a huge tree and talk about football or Final Fantasy games. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “I’ll take a blunt button hook and pull his tonsils out by the by jingoed roots, just like I promised him. He doesn’t quit. He’s fired.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Weasels and stoats jostled past them carrying baskets of earth or dragging rocks and roots. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Instead, tree roots crossed the path, half-hidden by the mossy undergrowth. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The blight was spreading thick and fast; the greenery was withering, and trees fell as their roots died. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z When I go to visit I always find her out in her walled garden with her hands sunk into the mulch, kneading the roots of her camellias. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I think as I roast the birds and Rue's roots. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “Feet with roots, that’s called a fungal infection,” Poet told the wandering boy. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Snape approached their table, stared down his hooked nose at the roots, then gave Ron an unpleasant smile from beneath his long, greasy black hair. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z When she wasn’t packing water, she was out digging prickly-pear roots and hammering them to mush in a sack, then binding the mush to my leg for a poultice. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z As an African American with roots in Long Beach, he saw the value of supporting our unique family. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z We find a beetle, many small yellow and white roots, a toad. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Trees creaked and groaned, and roots tangled my feet, but still I moved forward. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Mami gently moves from my roots to my ends, smoothing my hair for an instant, until it returns again to its natural curliness, like Papi’s hair. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z His wound had stiffened so that he could not settle himself on the roots and pebbles. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Then the bacteria, fungi, and earthworms will get to work breaking the old roots down into rich brown humus. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He perched lightly on one of the twisted roots while I sat beneath him on the body of the tree. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z But you can’t do that until your life has grown roots. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Then she plucked ferns and grasses from the ground and sank their roots into her new muddy coating. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z A pair of hands, his own, digging for roots. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The trees were pressing in, tendrils of white mist curling at their roots and rising. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z They collected an additional four thousand crates of pond lily roots, which Olmsted’s men quickly planted, only to watch most of the roots succumb to the ever-changing levels of the lake. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Moments later they came to a stout old woman with hands as gnarled as tree roots. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z There were still piles of dogtooth violet bulbs and Solomon’s seal roots and a few dried apples. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He dined on roots, berries, and seaweed, hunted game with spears and snares, dressed in rags, endured the bitter winters. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Great trees, bare and silent, stood, rank on rank, with tangled bough and hoary head; their twisted roots were buried in the long green grass. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The water was shot through with what looked like white roots; briefly, a great celestial tree stood in the ocean. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He wandered off a little way into the clearing, kicking his feet against the tree roots, stirring up the leaves. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z There is little in the way of small-town ties or big-city amenities—grandparents and cousins, longtime neighbors, vibrant boulevards, homegrown shops—that let roots sink in deep. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z On the Randall plantation, the doctor was only called when the slave remedies, the roots and salves, had failed and a valued hand was near death. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z By hoarding this small stock of food, she could make it last a long time, and with the berries and edible roots she could find in the woods, she wouldn’t starve. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I was meeting kids from East Coast cities whose roots were Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z For a few seconds it seemed as if it would tear itself out by its roots, but after a while it calmed down and began to shed food for the hungry family. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The hole it left had filled with filthy water, but the roots were dry and tangled enough to make a comfortable seat. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z But when its teeth met the gnarled roots and twisted branches of the scrub trees, it was a different story. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The girl—I can’t remember her name—went to a root shop in East Harlem, bought a number of herbs and roots, cooked them up, and dropped his picture into the boiling mess. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Over the North Sea in Britain’s Victorian empire, artists, writers and composers were dredging Albion’s Arthurian roots, too. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The immigrants, under Woundwort’s direction, dug their holes between the roots of the trees, in the undergrowth and along the ditches. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Frank yelled, “You want my poison roots? Come and get them!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In that place, where they tore the nightshade and black* berry patches from their roots to make room for die Medallion City Golf Course, there was once a neighborhood. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z They will send roots down as far as six feet into the soil. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z This room, this house, this man were all a part of my roots, all parts of a memory I had always loved. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z It threaded between boulders and past baobab trees with their roots firmly tapped into pockets of water in the soil. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Five miles of treacherous roots and loose stones, trying to twist my ankles or otherwise incapacitate me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Tiny roots crept up between the cracks of the marble stones. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Though you murder the world, turn plains to stone, transmogrify life into I and it, strong searching roots will cracky your cave and rain will cleanse it: The world will burn green, sperm build again. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z In the mornings, before it was too hot, Ultima and I walked in the hills of the llano, gathering the wild herbs and roots for her medicines. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Her box is empty, so she roots through the bin for her mail. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He spent his money on herbs and plant roots and oils to make things like ointments for burns and cuts. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z As the big tree had fallen, the roots had been tom and twisted from the ground. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He was moving on four good legs, strong and swift, and he could feel the ground underfoot, the soft crackling of fallen leaves, thick roots and hard stones, the deep layers of humus. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The scent of the oils and the roots stuck to my hands, so I smelled like the earth. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I was in my room after lunch, reading James chapter five because I would talk about the biblical roots of the anointing of the sick during family time, when I heard the sounds. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Paris in the twelfth century was expanding fast, as was its university, which was beginning to shrug off its ecclesiastical roots and embrace a more secular approach to learning. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Sliding partway, grasping tree roots to keep from falling, she stumbled down the treacherous path to the bottom. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Trees and sun and bushes and roots, squirrels and bugs and snakes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Sometimes, in my fantasies, I imagine there was someone who thought like this: We eat berries and roots. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched the word Story puff over the fire and spread into a cumulative haze that smelled of ground roots and acrid burn just above our dark heads. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z In the woods around the convent must be all manner of roots and wild berries and plants unknown in Denmark. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Ugly old women, every one of them, but all that praying and scrubbing and beating novices with sticks had left them tough as roots. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Just look at them. They both have roots and a head.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted my roots to journey farther, my branches to reach higher. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I saw her use vials of oil she had not used before, and I saw that some of the roots she used were fresh with wet earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Some plants got their names from leaves, some from flowers, some from seeds, some from roots. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Her hair is dyed an orangey color, with gray-brown roots showing. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Right,” said Harry coolly, turning back to his ginger roots. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z They had engulfed the great buildings and were slowly ripping apart the soft limestone with their roots. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “I agree with Elihu. A Loyal New York cuts off New England from the other colonies. The rebellion will wither like a vine cut off at the roots.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z As she was almost past the island, she spied a giant fig tree with long roots snaking down to the water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time I broke free of the mangroves, my shoes were soaking wet and my shins were scraped from the barnacle- covered roots. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Along one entire wall, arranged neatly in small piles, stood the raw materials he had collected: roots, seeds, dried leaves, pods, strips of bark and shriveled mushrooms. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I found some sassafras trees at the edge of the road one day, dug up a good supply of roots, peeled and dried them. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The ground was filled with rocks and roots. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Tomorrow I'll stay here, resting, camouflaging my backpack with mud, catching some of those little fish I saw as I sipped, digging up the roots of the pond lilies to make a nice meal. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He was too slippery to hold on to, but with both of us, we could push him against the bank as we stood on some tree roots to keep our footing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So, with Fang scampering around them, sniffing tree roots and leaves, they entered the forest. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Its roots stretch back to the dawn of mathematics, in the time thousands of years before the first civilization, long before humans could read and write. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The roots of Indian mathematics are hidden by time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Do you suppose the man, whoever he is, puts the roots out there because he has a kind heart? What’s he up to?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It had fallen into a little ditch, full of weeds and tree roots and ferns. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Those dozen blockbusters are the cereals wheat, corn, rice, barley, and sorghum; the pulse soybean; the roots or tubers potato, manioc, and sweet potato; the sugar sources sugarcane and sugar beet; and the fruit banana. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Felicia imagines the mixture melting through Graciela’s frail scalp, penetrating the roots and bones of her skull until it eats her vicious brain like acid. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But though in his youth he had received prizes for his ability to deduce square roots from memory, he was unable to solve the mystery of his daughter’s disease. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The great shape of the dog had bounded out from the roots of the Willow. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Jacob strolled to a nearby driftwood tree that had its roots sticking out like the attenuated legs of a huge, pale spider. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Here huge silver poplars towered above the cabin, their roots extending like giant claws, making the ground rough and robbing it of grass. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Before they returned to the village, the old man went to a number of secret places which he knew and collected roots and other substances that he would need for his work. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The rainwater would seep down gently and the delicate membranes would not be crushed or broken before the emergence of tiny fingers, roots, and leaves pressing out in all directions. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z But when the girl child stopped to let them catch her, die torchlight steadied, and Bran realized that the snakes were only white roots like the one he’d hit his head on. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They lit a small fire down under the gnarled roots of an old pine, that hung over a shallow pit: it looked as if stone had once been quarried there. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Indian music has roots that are thousands of years old. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z As if it wasn’t just growing, it was ripping itself out of the ground and sneaking around on skinny white roots. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z This will take us to a room hidden in the roots of the Whomping Willow. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z “Maybe the flowers are poisonous. I’m not eating the flowers. I’m eating the roots.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The salsa music was new and always evolving into something else, but it always returned to its afro-ji'baTO-antillano roots. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The pines threw their roots around the shore’s boulders, grappling with the living rocks and wrestling them into position. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Rani's tree is a huge, shaggy banyan tree with roots hanging down from its branches. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Suddenly there are no more roots supplying them with food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Before long the ground ahead of the column was blanketed in white, concealing stones and twisted roots and deadfalls, turning every step into an adventure. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The fire was nothing more than a few coals smouldering in the bottom of the hole where the roots had been. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Even his opponents recognized that Harrison, despite his privileged roots, made an intensely appealing candidate for the city’s lesser tier. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The ends of their long sweeping boughs hung down like searching fingers, their roots stood up from the ground like the limbs of strange monsters, and dark caverns opened beneath them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z “You look nice today,” he said, as if he were noticing her for the first time, and Pearl turned a deep pink, right down to the roots of her hair. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z This time, it knocked the tree over, causing an explosion of earth and rock as the tree’s roots tore out of the ground. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Her neck looks like it’s got tree roots running up and down it. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z With a start I realized that the bedposts and the legs of the chair were growing out of the floor, thick at the base like roots, and coiling together. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I sped toward the sound, tripping over ruts and roots but always scrambling ahead, sometimes on all fours, pushing against the ground with my knuckles. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Guy tried to pluck some of the mushrooms, which were being pushed into the dust as though they wanted to grow beneath the ground as roots. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “I am grateful for that freedom, but my roots are calling to me now.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z She was blushing right to the roots of her hair. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The roots and shoots are you and your friends and young people all around the world. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “I like to surround myself with reminders of ancient Kemet so the boys and I never forget our imperial roots. You know anything about that?” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I leaned my head into the mess, limbs dangling with no effort, just another set of roots protruding out of the fallen tree. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I’d need fire to roast the roots, but until then the leaves could be eaten like lettuce. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z My father was never there to teach me about my roots. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z His tie was dark gray silk, and the tiepin was a tree, worked in silver: trunk, branches, and deep roots. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z You have to grow' around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Sniffing near the skeleton-white roots of an upturned hollow tree stood a wild beast. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z She covered her hair with a head scarf and wore modest skirts, in keeping with her cultural roots, but she spoke English in a way that sounded American. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The roots seemed to merge right into the foundation. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z At their roots, there’s wilted, crackling scrub, dry bushes. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Maman asks without turning around but instead ventures deeper into the forest, dodging massive roots poking out of the dark soil. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z In steep places stairs of stone had been hewn, but now they were cracked and worn, and split by the roots of trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Wild garlic grew around the exposed tree roots, giving off a thick stench. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “Yes, but nice rotten apples. Taste it back along your tongue toward the roots.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Even on the narrow path, she was constantly shoving past branches and twigs, tripping over roots and rocks. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The three of them walk-run as best they can the whole way back, over those roots and branches, until they are home. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It spreads sinewy tentacles rather than roots into the ground to search for its preferred food of earthworms. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyddie snapped it off, but the roots were deep and beyond her reach. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z She wrestled it into the tangle of fig roots. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But the roots of their hate and fear were too deep, and Lazlo saw hints of revulsion as their confusion smeared one feeling into the next. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I learned about it over the years from my parents, who told stories of our roots when I asked about various conflicts and wars. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I have ridged, reddish-gray bark; leathery leaves with pointed lobes; stubborn, searching roots; and, if I do say so myself, the best fall color on the street. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I walk into the eucalyptus grove to where the pond is dammed with earth and a weave of gnarled tree roots. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I was now a tennis player cut off from his roots. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Barrels of slimy stuff stood on the floor; jars of herbs, dried roots, and bright powders lined the walls; bundles of feathers, strings of fangs, and snarled claws hung from the ceiling. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Last of all, she used the muzeze roots to sprinkle water all around the outer walls. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They tend the well, and make sure that the roots of Yggdrasil are covered with mud and cared for. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Unlike Burr’s distinguished bloodline, which gave his aristocratic bearing its roots and biological rationale, Hamilton’s more dashing and consistently audacious style developed as a willful personal wager against the odds of his impoverished origins. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It looked like a tree had wrapped its roots around my wrist. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z You would have to plant roots and make the place that held this chair your home. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Huge bundles of giant brown roots tied together with rope were balanced on their heads. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hazel?” said Bigwig, sniffing at him in the deep twilight among the tree roots. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “He was going to have it come out his way if he had to tear the world up by the roots.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He left the cleared yard and headed to where the uneven ground was snarled with roots and brush. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Good roots they keep there,” said Hazel, as they passed them and reached the hedge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In the castle, roots were regarded as peasant food. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z These have their roots in the mid-eighteenth century, when the French government, which had claimed Haiti as its own, made Port-au-Prince, the capital, a major hub of slave trading. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Besides, states that arise quickly, just like all the other natural things that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and branches and will be wiped out by the first adverse weather. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z There, gently patting earth around the moist roots, she planted the woad. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All the grass had gone brown, long ago, but he was looking at the roots. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Feeling too hot to move any farther, she lay down to rest between the roots of one of the giant trees, with her head on her rucksack, and fell into a doze. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They hauled up thick, juicy grass roots, knocked them against their arms to dislodge dirt, and proceeded to feed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z From there, Tenskwatawa and others traveled throughout Shawnee country, calling on Shawnees to return to their traditional religions and cultural roots. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Clutching the backpack by the strap, Hazel took off in a run, darting through the trees, leaping over roots and clumps. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z But he crawls into a burrow beneath the roots, and disappears. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z To the contrary, these attitudes and arguments have their roots in the struggles to end slavery and Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I climbed up into the middle of the roots and leaned back. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z My thirsty roots feel planted in the ground for the first time. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z At the north end, the beech roots formed a kind of irregular colonnade. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It stinks of roots and mud and ugly herbs but I’m so tired I let her tie it round my forehead, right over the bandage that’s still stuck on the side of my head. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The roots had grown in and around and through them, every one. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z See, my family, if you had a been part of them, you wouldn’t have time for this foolishness, your roots, so to speak. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t bring myself to tell him the truth: that because of an old man’s story I suspected the Amyr might have roots much older than the Aturan Empire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In small groups we followed Mrs. Baker onto a path that went mostly uphill while jutting up as many tree roots as it could to trip us. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Adam led him to it, and Cyrus looked down at the nestlike hole between the roots. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The fire had been so fierce in places that it had eaten trees down to the roots. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Were they cold underneath all of that, chilled to the roots? Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z My teeth are so sore, I can feel their aching roots deep in my jaw. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And this is by no means all they do: their burrows aerate the soil, keep it well drained, and aid the penetration of plant roots. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Only the strongest wizards in the district could administer this potion—a kind of paste made from the burned and ground bones of leopards and lions, and mixed with roots and herbs. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Always she kept an eye out for hiding places—logs, roots, stones, things to scurry under if she should meet a larger animal who might be unfriendly. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Over roots and rocks the direwolf sped, through a drift of old snow, the crust crackling beneath his weight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z An elm tree seems to shade the world with its aerial roots. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Greenberg’s first step was something that would make no sense if you did not understand the true roots of Korean Air’s problems. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z All I found were acorns and bitter roots. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z So she simply chose a direction, picking her way around tree roots and snowdrifts, until finally she came to a small clearing where the snow had not fallen. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the centuries it had spread like the roots of a tree under the entire surface of the world. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Perhaps the story was told to us through the waves of water while we were eggs or whispered to us by the roots of the lotus flowers. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Thomas asked as he yanked out a huge weed, clumps of dirt swaying on the roots. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z "Just come stomping in and jerk your life up by the roots! But this here's the last straw. They ain't going to bother with my Bible!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “How do you know which roots to pick, which herbs are safe?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z It was from these seeds and others, and from the flowers and roots beneath them, that Mr. Ages made the draughts and powders that could sometimes save the sick from dying. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z There were hundreds of coquitos, weeds that had a small brown nut at the end of their roots. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z These modern tensions have roots going back thousands of years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The trees themselves, turning and bending in the half light, looked as though they had gone mad and were dancing their roots out of the ground. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Or can we use a nonspecific fungicide without also killing the fungi that inhabit the roots of many trees in a beneficial association that aids the tree in extracting nutrients from the soil? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Then he and Grover disappeared through the tunnel of tree roots and were lost in the darkness. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I kept on gathering roots, but my hands trembled as I dug in the earth, for I was more excited than my brother. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Gaia had promised to pull up the gods by their roots. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Whatever I cut off, I put under the bush, to feed the roots. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z When the fish hit he jerked them out quickly so they wouldn’t get tangled up in roots and dead branches. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The moose watched all this play out on my face, a dirty boy tangled in the roots of an upended tree, hiding from the world, hiding from memories of a family and days without pursuit. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Groundsel set to work along the bank, while Vervain went into the wood, where the mouths of the holes lay between the tree roots. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They couldn’t move very quickly now; there were tree roots and stumps in their way, barely visible in the near blackness. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Here the roots of the trees seemed to claw at the sandy soil like the brown knuckles of clenched fists. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z On either side of the road are enormous, stately trees that look like their roots are growing into the sky instead of underground. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z It was growing on the edge of the deepest arroyo, its web of roots exposed, held upright only by a single connecting root. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She tried brewing drinks of roasted grain or roots, but her nervous system was not deceived by a beverage that resembled coffee only in appearance. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z In the close darkness of the Honeycomb, Hazel pushed past three or four of his rabbits crouching among the tree roots and reached the higher shelf where Speedwell lay listening for sounds from above. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Did he bring home nutritive roots and brew homeopathic teas? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The roots of the ceiling begin to worm, lengthening like vines and crawling across the underside of the hill. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They fled deeper into the jungle, scrambling through mud and stumbling over thick cypress roots. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z From this place, we are invisible but have a clear view of the valley, which is teeming with summer life, greens to gather, roots to dig, fish iridescent in the sunlight. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He went with her to learn about the roots and plants she had gathered. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He said he crawled back into the cave and sat with his back against the uptorn roots, and thought. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z The roots seemed to be shaping themselves around him, slowly pulling him into the earth. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z If it bothers you that the ratios in equal temperament are roots, remember the pure octaves and fifths of the harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Together they woke Hake, who received the Lord Commander's orders with a stream of curses, but got up all the same and soon had a dozen brothers cutting roots for a soup. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Fiver, why not do as I say? Have a meal on those roots and then go underground and sleep. You’ll feel all the better for it.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “With all the roots and flowers and herbs around, why do you still have to use animals in some of these spells?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I fidgeted and scribbled a drawing in my notebook, a circle of vines and roots that looked like my bracelet from Doc. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z But when folks tried, they ended up damaging the tree roots. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He wished to sever all his roots into positions of privilege; and he never wanted to be intimately involved with another person again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Ron shoved his own beautifully cut roots across the table at Malfoy, then took up the knife again. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z My roots sank too deep into this earth. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Of course the Greeks too had their roots in the primeval slime. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then our hall will be full of these thick, vertical roots?” asked Hazel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She stumbled over the roots of a massive, eighty-foot oak that towered above her and landed on her knees. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Gwin was sleeping close to it, curled up between the roots of a tree. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z And I, Sam Gribley, felt just wonderful, just wonder- I pushed the raft down the stream and gathered ar- rowleaf bulbs, cattail tubers, bulrush roots, and the nutlike tubers of the sedges. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She exasperates him, as she does everyone who roots for her success, but he loves her mind and courage. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z A new society was emerging—one that had its roots in the dark history of slavery but was also moving into the future. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She lifted seedlings out of the flat, untangling their nets of tender white roots. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d be tending my herb garden, clipping sprigs of fragrant leaves or replanting tender roots, then all of a sudden, a single tear would fall down my face without my awareness, surprising me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Once he had swallowed a good portion of the English vocabulary, he began to taste the familiar ingredients, the Greek seasoning in the roots, prefixes, and suffixes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He was cleanshaven, sunburned, nervous, gnarled like the roots of the trees; but gnarled and mature with weather and poetry rather than with age, for he was scarcely thirty years old. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tomorrow I will tend to your aching bones. I have a notion for a new medicine, made from mallow roots that grow in the marshes,” I said. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Downed trees lay across the path every fifty or sixty yards, often with great bomb craters of dirt around their splayed roots. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z A curious but beneficial relation between fungi and the roots of higher plants is seriously disrupted. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z To the left, the tunnel was dirt and tree roots. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He passed the mouths of two blocked runs, came to an opening between thick tree roots and stopped. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Writing in an abjectly apologetic tone, Griffith seemed genuinely sorry that he had shaken genetics by its roots. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Even if I had known this at that time, it would have done me no good, for they were but roots in the earth. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z After a time Strawberry stopped digging and began moving about between the roots, sniffing, biting and scuffling in the soil with his front paws. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Nhamo climbed down the fig roots and spent the night in the boat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Great trees passed by like ghosts, thrusting their twisted thirsty roots through the mist down into the water. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z We walk across roots and beams, unnoticed, jumping silently high above swarms of liveried servants. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Murmuring Om, he laid his head on the tree roots and sank into a deep sleep. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z More tentacles sprouted from the shattered surfaces, like roots searching for earth. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Because Elnora’s eyes were weak and her knees crippled, I helped her by digging roots and measuring tiny pinches of dried plants. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z We then dug up large, round tuber roots called kaumbu and carved them into wheels, using blue gum poles as axles. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Her aqua hair lies flat instead of in spikes and you can see the roots growing in gray. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He sees the hair that grows on her legs between waxings, the black roots that emerge between appointments at the salon, and in these moments, these glimpses, he believes he has known no greater intimacy. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Dayi Jamsheed parked the SUV under the shade of a gigantic walnut tree that hung over the street and thrust its roots beneath the cracking sidewalk. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The formula for finding the roots of a quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0 is… The + sign gives us one root, while the – sign gives us the other. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They had no more huge feasts, but the leftover pieces of the cooked rabbit lasted a few days, and roots and tubers were plentiful every time they reached a river. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z From it he removed and handed to my father several small pouches filled with roots, ointments and bottles containing drops of the grey, misty brew—medicines for all his problems. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, it seems safest to guard the secret of my roots. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It made me shiver, not because it was cold but because the roots of everything I had ever believed in seemed shaken. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Asha tried to slip to her right, but her feet were tangled in some roots, trapping her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The top of a nodding snowball had snagged her sun- bonnet, but Miz Eubanks herself was down among the roots, beginning to crawl out from under the bushes that had broken her fall. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z It existed now in a permanent state of windblownness, leaning over so far that it seemed ready to topple, although, in fact, its roots held it firmly in place. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There the root borer is a serious pest of the banana, so weakening its roots that the trees are easily toppled by wind. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Or maybe you know that it has other roots in the Rastafari religion. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z This grove of oaks is where they dig for acorns, roots, and grubs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z With the roots intact, it looked as if it had simply been felled by disease. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z As Bob tended the stew, Damasen perused his drying racks, plucking various leaves and roots. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Quadratic equations are more complicated than regular equations; for one thing, they can have two different roots. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This syncopation is now so common in all popular music that it has quite forgotten its Cuban roots. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The rush of energy buzzed through me and settled in the roots of my teeth. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Its floor was hard-packed dirt, and its wooden roof was an arched intertwining of roots, above which rose the tree itself, an oak. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z But if you feel you want to go to Africa to find your roots I won’t stop you. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They picked a way among the trees, and their ponies plodded along, carefully avoiding the many writhing and interlacing roots. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Down the newly cut path I go, high-stepping over stumps and roots, following the soldiers and gentlemen. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The only green things were the acacia trees, which have long roots that grow deep into the ground. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z “But maybe stealing, too, if we have to. And there’s wild fruit and I know some roots we can eat if you boil ’em first.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “You’re not going to take my babies,” she said to Dorothy, struggling against the changes that had been set in motion by Langley’s letter, but which had roots much deeper than that. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Though quadratic equations are more complicated than linear equations, there is a simple way to figure out what the roots of a quadratic equation are. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It is so large that the roots of the ash are in three worlds, and it is fed by three wells. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Yet the roots of inequality in the modern world lie far back in prehistory. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They met at the seventh of their appointed meeting places, among the roots of a plane tree in a shabby little square, and exchanged their news. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Under the thin crust of snow, the ground was damp and muddy, slick footing, with rocks and hidden roots to trip you up. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Looks even worse from here, doesn’t it?” said Harry, watching the dog pulling Ron into the roots. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The color seemed darker, what had been traces of a reddish hue were now gone, and only her roots were left, the fine nubs rich and brown. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The robot sank her fingers into the ground and felt the spongy layer of roots below the grass. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Nanny’s head and face looked like the standing roots of some old tree that had been torn away by storm. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Finally Johanna and the others who emerged as discussion leaders stand in a line on the tree roots. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Celia knows that good charms and bad are hidden in the stirred earth near its sacred roots. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z My legs were scraped from falling on the roots, and my bottom burned. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z When it finally died, I removed the roots from the soil, washed them, and buried them in a corner of the garden. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Their own Jewish religion, their own rich Jewish ethnic and cultural roots, they anesthetized, and cut off. . . until they began thinking of themselves as ‘ ‘Germans. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Underneath was a scabbed spot about the size of a quarter where someone had, apparently, pulled a handful of hair out by the roots. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z While the others broke dirt clods and struggled with roots, picked stones and smoothed out rough rows to plant, Pinch pretended to help. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z At the shattered pine tree, a woman knelt at a cave entrance that had cracked open between the tree’s roots. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Next to the letters is a picture of clouds, rain, sun, plants, roots, and soil, with red arrows pointing from one thing to another, like symbols on a treasure map. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I mince groosling until it's practically mush and mash some of Rue's roots. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Whenever I dug another foxhole, cutting down through ferns and rotted vegetation and tree roots and mud, the bottom of it would be filled with water by the time I finished. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z A wee little voice called out from inside the labyrinth of roots, a tangle that had, Stella now saw, a hidey-hole in its center. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But her legs seemed to have grown roots into the forest floor. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The beginnings of the new warren had been hollowed out among the roots of one of the beech trees. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z All three have their roots in a Latin word for “safe” or “secure.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The thickly knotted roots and the dull shovel blade conspired against him. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Driving the big highway near Toledo I had a conversation with Charley on the subject of roots. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Trees enveloped the great buildings, their roots slowly ripping apart the soft limestone walls. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Gashes the size of football fields would appear at the mountain base, leaving a desolation of broken roots and upturned trees where once there had been a forest. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He ran to the middle of the bridge—a natural choke point—and threw his bait of poisonous roots on the deck behind him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I fell into a deep, black abyss lined with tree roots and rocks, and they struck me as I fell. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z That night, we feasted on fish and katniss roots until we were all, for the first time in months, full. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z But the more he struggled, the fester the roots grew. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z They fought in the predawn gloom, shadow against shadow, stumbling over roots and rocks, with mud and rotting leaves beneath their feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Their sheep killed hedges, snipped valleys bare, and their pigs nosed up the very roots of what might have grown. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z We had lots of prickly pear growing close to the house, but they were the big tall ones and their roots were no good. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “I believe in knowing where your roots lie. That kind of thing shapes your identity so much. I was born right here in Shaker, did you know that?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I’ve been sitting here for an hour with roots and rocks digging into my knees. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z A thousand eyes, a hundred skins, wisdom deep as the roots of ancient trees. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They jumped over fallen branches and holes in the ground, over roots and rocks. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z His hands were in fists and the veins in his arms bulged like tree roots. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z The breeze catches her hair as she roots for her car keys. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z I nosed the dinghy into some mangroves, cut the engine, and hopped out, balancing in my skateboard shoes on the slick rubbery roots. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z We know the basic parts of a plant—roots, stem, leaves, flowers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The man tore a clump of my hair out by the roots and threw it in my face. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a back eddy from where the water came around the big tree roots and such hanging down. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There were two more flat on the ground, between the thick, gnarled roots. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I stared at a tree on the opposite bank, where the roots were exposed and twisted, and felt a metallic-dry taste rise from the back of my throat and slide over my tongue. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I take the nuts and replant the roots. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the weakened roots, having grown accustomed to the poison, responded one day to severe pressure, and the tooth fell free, leaving a ragged stump behind. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z That night he had dreamed of an orchard under the moonlight, of skeletal white trees, their branches ending in bony hands, their roots going deep down into the graves. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z When Father Alphonse sees me, he reddens to the very roots of his sparse tonsure. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Frank hadn’t been sure the roots would still smell when he changed form. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z At the end of the summer I would gather roots and seeds to store, but now there was nothing that needed to be done. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z If I die weep at my grave every day until a seedling appears in the dirt, then cry on it to make it grow until it becomes a beautiful tree whose roots surround my body. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z And as if after dragging up roots, she has finally managed to yank them free of the soil they have clung to, she finds she can move her own feet toward the car. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The prince also had blood covering his own hands, and he saw a bloodied knife on the grass beside them, resting against the roots of the tree. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Soon our jaws are tired from chewing on the sassafras roots, and for a time our bellies are fooled into thinking we have eaten. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z As late as the seventeenth century, Descartes refused to accept negative numbers as roots of equations. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “For two hundred and sixteen rings, I’ve sat on my roots and listened to people hope for things. And a lot of times, those wishes never happened, I’m guessing.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The ground around the roots, however, was free of snow, and Harry could see no sign of footprints. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The roots of Opium are watered with blood, and anyone who buys its foul weed is no better than a flesh-eating cannibal. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Some made their homes in the river world of the Amazon basin, others struck roots in Andean mountain valleys or the open pampas of Argentina. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Fearing the smell of meat will draw unwanted predators -fresh blood is bad enough -I make a good meal out of the greens and roots and berries Rue and I gathered today. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z A blast of lightning split the tree down to its roots, opening a smoking crevice. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z We stopped in a hollow among the roots, and High John surprised me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Her head drooped forward into the puddle, the wisps of her blonde hair dabbling in it like tree roots in a bog, and I realized she was asleep. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Huge, isolated, it grew in unlikely soil—entwined in its own roots. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z This plant, which the purist would doubtless consider a weed in any rosebed, releases an excretion from its roots that kills the soil nematodes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I visit with the corn kernels planted deep within Pachamama’s body as they eagerly stretch out their first roots. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The boys who had made it this far were rugged and optimistic in a way that seemed emblematic of their western roots. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They went into the house and lay down on the soft moss Mrs. Frisby had placed on the floor of their room under the roots. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Doc looked up from his bag of roots and leaves. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “There’s only one more I need,” she said, pointing her chin in the direction of the gunny sacks full of roots and plants. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They had to scramble up the sides of the bank here, and hold on to roots and trunks to keep balance, standing sideways and edging along. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I stared at the knotted roots of the trees on the creek bank, trying hard not to look like I’d just been called adorable. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z But later, at the stoplight, I say: "I'm trying not to put down permanent roots. That's probably what you should tell people like Henry." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z In my neighborhood alone, hundreds upon hundreds of us are weaving our roots into the soil like knitters on a mission. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I wanted to drop the stick and run too, but I went on digging roots because they were needed in the village. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Their twisted trunks, roots, and vines wrapped themselves around the ruins like gigantic boa constrictors, crushing and swallowing the overturned stones. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Now when Ekon looked into the jungle’s snarl of trees, roots, and vines, he remembered no legends. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The singers made Bran a throne of his own, like the one Lord Brynden sat, white weirwood flecked with red, dead branches woven through living roots. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A fisherman had about a tenth of a second, before the trout shot into sunken branches, logs, weeds, and roots, to horse it out of the stream. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In order to escape the racial attack that went to the roots of my life, I would have gladly accepted any way of life but the one in which I found myself. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z As he dashed back to his cauldron, he saw Malfoy cutting up valerian roots as fast as he could. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The column of earth thickened into the twenty-foot-tall figure of a woman - her dress woven from blades of grass, her skin as white as quartz, her hair brown and tangled like tree roots. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “Her big feet grew roots. She didn’t move to save anyone.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I explain that verbs in Arabic form roots that create trees of nouns and word structures. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z The tree’s roots, thickly twisted and fanning out like huge, grasping fingers, snaked out from its base. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I followed the fence, and kept going, half-running, stumbling over twisted roots. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “Then later we’ll put the heavy rake on your tractor and dig up all the roots.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Like whether a particular tree—the one whose roots grew up its trunk—was in bud two days ago or a week and exactly where it was. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually he found an area beside the roots of a cypress tree that wasn’t so bad. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z At first, most Americans believed that if an exposition honoring the deepest roots of the nation were to be held anywhere, the site should be Washington, the capital. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Sometimes roots are like that. Very deep. Much deeper than people can see.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Almost at once Jack found the dung and scattered roots that told of pig and soon the track was fresh. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “Well, there was an abandoned den there. Fox, maybe? Didn’t seem like it had been used in a while. But since it was near those willows, and sometimes I’ve seen screechers digging around their roots...” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z In other areas, though, that role of cereals was taken over or shared by roots and tubers, which were of negligible importance in the ancient Fertile Crescent and China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z How did they feel about raising their children without roots? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It was covered with scraggly, long ropes, like vines or tree roots. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z We work side by side, using flat-bottomed trowels and occasionally shears to cut the vines and roots that weave through the blanket of dirt. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Pearl Bassette, one of several Hampton natives, was the daughter of a well-known black lawyer, her family tracing its roots back to the early days of the city. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The tattlers say she leaves it there to pay homage to the roots of Orléans, the Gris. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The walls and floor were a mishmash of plastic bags, dirt, grass roots and stones. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Damp seeped through his gloves as he clutched at roots and rocks, crawling toward the light. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Ultima and I had visited the place in search of roots and herbs. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Ben could feel a blush begin at the cuticles of his toes, rush through his entire body, and assault the very roots of his hair. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was leathery and wrinkled, his hands gnarled as old roots. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In the secret parts of his peculiar brain, those unhappy and inextricable tangles which he felt at the roots, the boy was disabled by something which we cannot explain. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Social calls stretched into the evening now that so many colored settlers had put down roots, the advance guard of a great migration. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The roots of the cassava, a plant in Africa, contain the poison cyanide. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Then she went back to the small house where she lived and boiled the roots and herbs, making a strange dark-looking concoction. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He was scared to think about it, to even entertain the notion, but he found that once he’d acknowledged it, its roots dug into him, refusing to let go. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z And C.P. was moved to hear how, as a child, Ann’s only dolls were the ones she made herself out of grass she pulled up, the tangled roots serving as hair. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z With its purification rituals and its imperial roots, sumo is sacrosanct in a way that American sports will never be. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I had to watch each step I took very carefully, avoiding roots below and branches above, and I soon fell behind. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The hammer’s head—a thick metal block marred with pits and scrapes—began to glow with blazing, red-hot light, and John pressed it against a tangle of roots. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z They are coiled around with a lattice of roots, which sometimes form the shapes of cages, sometimes balconies, and sometimes what appear more like tightropes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “The workers trap rats when they don’t satisfy me enough to get fed. Some of the grass roots are said to be tasty. I wouldn’t know.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The ground had been dug up; the soil was still fresh from where deep tree roots had been. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z They saw Lupin, Ron, and Pettigrew clambering awkwardly out of the hole in the roots. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Negra hated the church, couldn’t wait to leave her parents’ house and rip up her Pentecostal roots. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z We’re both soaking wet and the water is cold and it’s not easy grabbing onto the roots to keep our balance. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Hall Heorot rocked down to its stone roots with the rage of the demon's struggling. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t remember digging a foxhole, but I found myself inside one, my shovel stuck in the moist dark sand and tree roots at the bottom of the four-foot-deep hole. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I hang by the twisted roots of an oak, looking down into immensity. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z And he fell against the tree, sinking to the ground and clutching the roots of the tree. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I spot some water plants with edible roots and make a small meal with my last piece of rabbit. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z We walked together in the llano and along the river banks to gather herbs and roots for her medicines. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Lord Eddard Stark sat upon a rock beside the deep black pool in the godswood, the pale roots of the heart tree twisting around him like an old man’s gnarled arms. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They set to work to enlarge it, digging between the roots and tunneling upward to make a second run that would emerge inside the wood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair is frizzly and short, red with darker roots, and I suspect she is chewing gum: every once in a while there is a slow, furtive, sideways motion of her jaw. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z NOTE—In Division II, the English derivatives from Latin roots are given in abbreviated form, and are arranged in paragraphs under the particular radicals, from which the several groups of derivatives are formed. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z The roots of those mountains must be roots indeed; there must be great secrets buried there which have not been discovered since the beginning.” The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He wondered if he would ever see the star again, and he stumbled over roots as the way led him between old trees into the deep woods. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z As they came onto the hillside they thought of how the roots of it were deep, deeper than the sea, reaching down even to the old, blind, secret fires at the world’s core. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The trail was cobbled with rocks and threaded with wandering tree roots against which we constantly stubbed and stumbled, and veneered everywhere with polished ice under a thin layer of powdery snow. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She’d brush my hair and braid it with long words, weaving the Latin roots and Greek branches into my head so memorizing anatomy would come easy. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Neel kept kneeing and elbowing his way forward, steadying the flashlight as he pushed away branches and roots. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z “It looked just the way it does now. A clearing, lots of sunshine, that big tree with all those knobby roots. We stopped and everyone took a drink, even the horse.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z We move in tiny bits, cell by cell, roots inching farther, buds nudged into the sunlight. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Since the wind was very cold and I was no longer afraid that the Aleuts would find me, I made a fire in the cave and cooked a supper of shellfish and roots. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor did the girl come near the cave, though I found her footsteps far down the ravine where she had been to dig roots. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z They bore this treasure off the beach, and piled it close around the roots of the olive tree, that no one passing should steal Odysseus’ gear before he woke. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Down below among the roots there was the sound of creatures crawling and snuffling. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Harry kept his eyes on his ginger roots, listening hard. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He turned back to his ginger roots once more, picked up his knife, and started slicing them again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Her body knew the way, knew the roots and rocks to step over and the low branches to duck under. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Watching Bongo soar, I considered, not for the first time, my rambling roots. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Two pieces of groosling, a small mishmash of roots, and a handful of dried fruit. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She smelled the good morning wind rippling the curtains, bringing in the odor of grass and roots and damp earth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Besides, even an old ladle with a broken handle might be used later for scooping ashes from the fire or digging up cattail roots on a fetch. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He drew Hazel’s sword and used it to pry up some cobblestones, unearthing a big tangle of spiky roots. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In fact, her parents were sinking roots here. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The moustache hung over his mouth like the roots of some plant. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z In this view we are a restless species with a very short history of roots, and those not widely distributed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of them had roots, clawing their way up out of the soil, thick and twisted and shiny. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Now, there was only the thick, greenish-brown carpet of foliage, the sticks and twigs and sinewy roots of the trees, like ropes coming up out of the ground. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z After the roots and leavings we had existed on, I was grateful enough for the food, but of what she bought Nathan would not touch a morsel. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The roots weren’t thick or strong enough to do much more than annoy the Titan. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The tangled thornbushes growing among its gnarled roots were just tall enough to hide them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z They lit a fire in a hollow, down among the roots of a spreading hawthorn, tall as a tree, writhen with age, but hale in every limb. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They scrambled down a steep cut and up the other side, using roots for handholds. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A trap: a dark trap under the roots of the silent mountain, and he was in the trap. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Yet I have not forgotten where my roots started. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z During the spring of 1955 many of these growers undertook a large-scale program to control the strawberry root weevil, whose larvae had become abundant on the roots of the hops. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I fell a couple of times, tripping over roots sticking out from ground that was ashy and loose in the thinning earth, washed out from the endless rain. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z There is nourishment in the desert for myth, but myth must somewhere have its roots in reality. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z All I have left are Rue's roots and nuts, the boy's dried fruit, and one strip of beef. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Intercontinental missile silos and fallout shelters're sunk deep in the roots of the mountains. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He gives me a new piece of chalk and tells me to draw roots. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I labor to remember something: twisted roots, an abyss ... Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The Intercollegiate Rowing Association’s regatta at Poughkeepsie was a storied institution, with roots deep in the history of American rowing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I discovered this one day when I ate so much algae at the base of a small tree that I exposed its roots. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Its twisted roots went down into his own being. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s not to mention all the fallen branches and raised tree roots waiting to trip him. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z At his right hand, and only a few feet away, the whole thicket bent and the roots screamed as they came out of the earth together. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The snowy handkerchief in his breast-pocket was scented with some heavy cologne like those hothouse plants so rich you can smell the decay at their roots. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The nephew, or was it the cousin, of the woman who worked roots. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It shares roots, of course, with tending—a farmer’s or gardener’s activity—but also with tension, the stretching of a pea tendril to incline it toward sunlight or to train it on an arbor. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z His hands dug into the dirt, pulling at roots and handfuls of earth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z A few trees surrounded it, their roots like gnarled hands digging into the rock floor for food. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He knew where there were good sassafras roots in the woods; maybe he would bum some brush in the fencerows and heat a little water for sassafras tea. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Although many collateral sanctions were repealed by the late 1970s, arguably the drug war simply revived and expanded a tradition that has ancient roots, a tradition independent of the legacy of American slavery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She wrapped her arms around Bo and gently stroked his hair, which was already growing blonde at the roots. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z We ride on through a cavern, between pillars of roots, over packed earth. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Winged archers take aim at the cluster of roots where the Ghost was hiding. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Woundwort waited only for Groundsel to bring back the two rabbits who had been sent to search among the tree roots at the north end of the burrow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We had gone to gather roots that grow there in the spring. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z For a moment it looked like nothing would happen, then the roots loosed themselves from the soil, curling and withering. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I want them to understand their culture and the ancient roots of their family. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Tialys took off again, and then Lyra reached the tree and sat down on one of the thick roots. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z There were some plants that Ultima could not obtain on the llano or the river, but many people came to seek cures from her and they brought in exchange other herbs and roots. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel sat nibbling and biting, the rich, full taste of the cultivated roots filling him with a wave of pleasure. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he grabbed Kuwei and launched them both into the black mouth beneath the roots of the tree. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “They’ll take the whole freshman class here and show them this. They’ll talk about the tree, its deep roots, its soaring branches,” he said, dropping his voice cartoonishly. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “It’s good to have roots. Gives the soil something to hold on to, and it’s nice to watch something you’ve planted grow.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I know a thing or two about roots. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Do not think my brains are squeezed shut, like the ram’s, by the roots of horns. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z In desperation, I turned and fled into the woods, stumbling over roots and stones, crying as I hadn’t cried for years. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z If you had to speak English with running captions in your mind showing all the roots, all the way back to Indo-European, you’d fall off the bicycle. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The roots were black, and the top third was bright yellow. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A thousand eyes, a hundred skins, wisdom deep as the roots of ancient trees. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He tried to shake off the roots, but he was still weak. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Some of its methods have ancient roots, based on the knowledge that, like ourselves, insects are subject to disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Goes over branches and roots to what was the open field. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He tripped on roots and twice ran into a tree. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Every fiber in the trunk, the bark, the roots seemed to cry out separately against this murder. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A few moments before, the pig had been crouched at the roots of a tree. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Me: IT sits on my table, ITs leg smears my chalk drawing, blurring the roots into a mossy fog. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The sap went down into the roots during the cold nights, came up strong when the sun warmed the trunks during the day. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Pulling them out hurt more than anything, like yanking myself up by the roots. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It held a number of small plants, all of them the same kind, with stringy roots and dark, veined green leaves that looked like mint. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z She blindly felt with her hands and recognized the thick roots and trunk of a pine tree. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z So silent was it that the fall of their ponies’ hoofs, rustling on dead leaves and occasionally stumbling on hidden roots, seemed to thud in their ears. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Father kind of sat there blinking, what with all the roots and shoots. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “You two learning from your uncle how to work the roots?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z This giant ate no meat at all, though he was a holy terror when served a basket of roots, crunching onions and turnips and even raw hard neeps between his big square teeth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He peered ahead into the dark cleft, and left and right up the great, cavern-pocked, boulder-tumbled slopes where trees crouched with their roots half in air. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Harry could not help thinking that he and Dumbledore both had deep roots in this graveyard, and that Dumbledore ought to have told him so, yet he had never thought to share the connection. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The horse followed, turning onto a rutted path lumpy with roots, and it was as if they had slipped in under a giant colander. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She peeled the roots of wild geraniums and baked them in hot coals. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But the roots jutting out of the ground form a perilous web, and I trip again, catching myself on my hands. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z From time to time, the two of them talk about ointments and roots. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Thereafter Griphook joined them at the overcrowded table, although he refused to eat the same food, insisting, instead, on lumps of raw meat, roots, and various fungi. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Then she tied them both securely to a massive buttress of one of the roots, as thick around as her own hips. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Their great roots spread from the wall to the water. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But I knew that with time they would put down roots, just like so many other families from so many other places. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Every other week one of the aunties from the Indian Association came over to help Mamma dye her roots black while Papa was at work. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The roots had flattened as he made his way here and there, seeking the shortest, safest route from place to place. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z But they are much faster, flying through the underbrush so gracefully as my boots catch on roots and fallen tree limbs, that there's no way I can keep apace with them. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The chaplain’s face reddened to the roots of his sandy hair as he waited. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Avoiding the gigantic coils, he walked quickly and quietly over to where the sword hung from the tree roots on the cave wall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Our job was to dig out this tree, roots and everything, in front of a huge house that’s still under construction. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “One time Mrs. Moss pulled me off my top bunk by the hair, and a bunch of it was yanked out by the roots! Then she kicked me while I was on the floor.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The roots of her irritation were long and many branched and deep. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The ravine was tangled with brush, which was hard to walk through, but in the ravine grew seeds and roots. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Or it is a type of tiny potato that turns up in the market now and then, always sold in bunches that clump along the roots like knots on a string. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They are gentle with my new leaves, careful with my exposed roots. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z In the pattern-thinking about roots I and most other people have left two things out of consideration. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z We were faster without our youngest and oldest, but now we were without deep roots, without the acute need to protect and make better. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Then I would carefully dig out the plant, taking care not to let the steel of the shovel touch the tender roots. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The brown swirling waters lapped at my feet, and the monotonous chirping of the grillos as they sang in the trees mixed into a music which I felt in the roots of my soul. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor did I care that my leather shoes, catching roots or stones, kept tripping me, causing me to fall. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Peering through the mists, he glimpsed a broken spire, a headless hero, an ancient tree tom from the ground and upended, its huge roots twisting through the roof and windows of a broken dome. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Her hair was in a gamine cut, streaked blond in a salon and currently showing dark roots. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Gently, I settled the first coneflower in the earth and packed the powdery dirt in around the roots. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Inside, she had all manner of herbs, seeds, sprigs, and plant roots. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Nigeria became where she was supposed to be, the only place she could sink her roots in without the constant urge to tug them out and shake off the soil. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It would have been a lot easier than reaching through the tangle of roots and branches, trying to bring the vibrasaw to bear against a precise spot. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Gnarled roots wove their way through pine needles and fallen leaves. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z They collected around the Sphinx’s paws, grew roots and branches, and began wrapping around the monster’s legs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Suddenly the passageway convulsed, the hidden roots of trees sprang up, the ground split beneath Taran, heaving and crumbling. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z I couldn't see her face because her head was hanging down on her chest and her stiff blonde hair fell down from its dark roots like a hula fringe. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Kitty and I like being nomads, but it has been a long time since we stopped long enough to grow roots. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z At last the hobbits saw, rising dimly before them, a steep dark land: they had come to the feet of the mountains, and to the green roots of tall Methedras. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z But this horned toad wore furry plant roots as bracelets and even a necklace of sweetgrass. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The Chicano roots she had rejected had refused to shrivel and die; the culture she had hoped to adopt had refused to compensate. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Their roots are deep, their stalks are firm, and only the top blossom nods in the wind. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Flame-red hair spills over his forehead and into his eyes, so dark at the roots it’s almost black. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z And the trees, their roots dotted with the snails that make her drool. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “We must kill the structures all the way to their roots,” the angels had said, “and only then will Lucille be safe.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z She could not control the strength of the gnarled roots that held it to the cliff. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The door behind him was still covered in roots. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I have followed its roots, so to speak, to the first infallible cause of all created things. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She’d fashioned a needle from a fish bone and stripped plant roots down to a stiff, thin thread. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z She stored the roots in a carrying basket. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z With Nero racing ahead, we fled through the woods, tripping over roots and ducking branches. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z We clamber round trees and over roots, getting deeper into the swamp. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z One was at the north end of the Honeycomb, above the place where the tree roots formed a kind of cloister in the burrow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s built like a brick house with mounds of blonde hair, though I’m sure she dyes it that color, because the roots are black. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z They scrounged for termites, picked berries, dug for roots, stalked rabbits and hunted bison and mammoth. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The chanterelle lives on the roots of oak trees, usually very old ones. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A tiny head, hair going every which way, poked out from the roots. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Barely avoid downed logs, boulders, and tree roots. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I see it as going back to my roots. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z There they sat under an old gnarled oak that sent its roots twisting like snakes down a steep crumbling bank. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z You tore it from the ground by the roots. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I saw that the roots did not go their own independent way into the algae, but rather joined it, became it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Knotted grass roots hung down and brushed them as they passed. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I thought about everything underground, like worms, and roots, and clay, and buried treasure. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s still a playground rocket, not a real one, but every time I turn the wheel to the left, the trees in the park lift up their roots and sidestep it to the left. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z He extracted cube roots and integrated functions of varying complexity. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The roots were almost a foot long, like a stubble of whiskers. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Here thick black trunks crowded close together while twisted branches wove a dense canopy overhead and misshapen roots wrestled beneath the soil. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The gnome under the rhododendron was now digging for worms at its roots, and Harry kept his eyes fixed upon it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z In the warming water I put roots, nuts, and the fungus of immortality. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z No wonder the roots of organized crime and criminal organizations such as the American Mafia were tied directly to Prohibition. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Five minutes later roots and fruits were abolished; the flower of the present rosily blossomed. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z And she gave us the little pep talk on family and how important roots were. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “If we do not completely eliminate the roots, the plant will grow back,” we heard. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Werfel was not used to exercise, and he huffed and puffed a lot, lumbering over rocks and roots. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z I had dug trenches and hacked at roots with mattocks. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Then, each in an angle of the great tree’s roots, they curled up in their cloaks and blankets, and were soon fast asleep. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z When the knights finally bear the body away and no one is searching for us anymore, the Ghost leads me across the roots again. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She still held on to Ivan’s arm, praying the underground river wasn’t full of debris and roots to catch and hold them until they drowned. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Descartes thought that these numbers were even worse than negative numbers; he came up with a scornful name for the square roots of negatives: imaginary numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But the Swift family had deep roots in Cape Cod going back 250 years, and G.F.’s father did not want him to leave the family home. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The mountains still loomed up ominously on their left, but near at hand they could see the southward road, now bearing away from the black roots of the hills and slanting westwards. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A tree across the street had been ripped from its roots and lay across the road, branches spread over his driveway. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The water bumbles over round stones and washes the polished roots of the trees that hold it in. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I press myself down against a thick cluster of roots, camouflaging myself as I’ve been taught. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And seeing the garden in this forgotten condition reminded me of something I once read in a fortune cookie: When a husband stops paying attention to the garden, he’s thinking of pulling up roots. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The tunnel-like space was narrowed by many more roots and branches than the last time he’d been here, but it was still visible. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z I think he means to conjure up the same magic that made the roots grow, made the branches of the throne bloom and twine. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Daddy sets the bush in a clay pot and pours dirt over the roots. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z It was choked with a succulent weed, whose furred brown roots waved like thin tentacles underwater. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole hill seemed to be infected, dying from the poison that had sunk into the tree’s roots. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Cable’s pendant seemed to grow heavier and heavier, wound around her neck as tightly as the vines, brush, and roots grasping the railroad tracks. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z My own interest in history had early roots and was encouraged by my father. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Genie wondered how “concerned” Grandpop really was, hiking through the trees like that, occasionally tripping over ground roots that Crab couldn’t kick away. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “That way you’ll be able to take your roots with you if you ever have to leave, my dear,” he said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He roots among his supplies and offers me a fine piece of saveloy. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s a tall, slender woman with light hair and dark roots, and she always makes me feel welcome. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Harry wriggled into the earthy passage hidden in the tree’s roots. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Badgers are one of the few creatures which can munch up hedgehogs unconcernedly, just as they can munch up everything else from wasps’ nests and roots to baby rabbits. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The snails liked to burrow deep beneath the tangled tree roots. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z So every day I filled an old coffee can two or three times and watered around the roots of the bush, moistening the earth until it became spongy. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z And George and Axel, Dr. Martin, and now the baby, move swiftly through the field over fallen branches, past roots and leaves. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The branches of trees, the filigree of roots, the matrix of crystals, the streets her father re-created in his models. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Grass and tree roots would grow up around it as the months and years passed, until it would seem as if it had always been there. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Who taught me how to put down roots, and thrive on both sun and rain, and understand what it is to bloom. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, we lived on what remained of our salted fish, roots and leaves, the fruit of the prickly pear, and on the plantains from our tree. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He tipped his ginger roots into the cauldron too, and wondered whether he ought to take a leaf out of Moody’s book and start drinking only from a private hip flask. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It is important for a freedom fighter to remain in touch with his own roots, and the hurly-burly of city life has a way of erasing the past. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Some attempt had been made to smooth the sides of the wall itself, but here and there the twisting fingers of roots poked through. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z I put in the meat and roots, swap in fresh rocks, and go find something green to spice it up a little. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He taught them to rise above their brutish roots. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He was so fat from feasting on berries and roots and grubs all summer that he was nearly as large as two bears. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The ash tree is resilient and handsome and its roots go deep. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z She found a narrow space between two great roots and crammed herself into it, peering over the buttress beside her and out toward the approaching dust cloud. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Long cream-colored banners whip through the air, flying Eldred’s symbol—a tree that is half white flowers and half thorns, roots dangling beneath it and a crown atop. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She said I’d have to get used to it if I was going to learn to work the roots. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She balanced the hatchet on her finger as she walked, carefully keeping herself under it while her feet guided her through the scrub and tripping roots. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Carefully, I ease its roots out of the plastic cup it came in. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I liked that freedom on the rails, but for the first time, it didn’t feel right to have no roots, to have no family. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As they approached the brook, toward the big tree in the hollow of whose roots they would make their summer home, the children ran ahead, shouting and laughing. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “Grass is already brown, but these roots are too dry to hold water. Pretty soon, any rain that comes is going to be too late.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There are roots, too, hanging down from the rocks above, belonging to who knows what kinda plant. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z They lay on the lawn, their pink and white flowers grazing the grass, their roots waving lumpy soil in the air. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z It was taken down and the roots chopped up, and I think everybody in town took some home to boil for sassafras tea. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Eventually someone from each of the big groups stands and approaches Johanna, picking their way carefully over the roots of the big tree. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Ron seized his knife, pulled Malfoy’s roots toward him, and began to chop them roughly, so that they were all different sizes. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z She harvested all her plants from the little island—leaves, seeds, and roots—leaving nothing to replant in the rainy season. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “First things first. Y’all two need to look out for each other when you’re working roots. Don’t let Jezebel go off by herself, Jay.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She could not stop herself, even as she stumbled over tree roots, but at last she broke free of the Wood and began to cross the meadow. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The heart tree at Winter- fell had roots as thick around as a giant’s legs, but these were even thicker. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was being tom up by the roots. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z You could almost feel the trees drinking the water up with their roots. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z A hundred blossoms grew up from the roots, and the fragrance was very sweet. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the rabbits, roots, greens, the rolls spread with the last bit of cheese. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z By the time Sefia returned with a bundle of clothing, the boy had curled up between the roots of a banyan tree to wait. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Doc slammed his fist down on his worktable, making the roots and herbs inside the jars rattle. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He was shaved close to the blue roots of his beard, and his hands were clean and his nails polished. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The ground was uneven, treacherous with roots, but the pine needles were soft underfoot. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z From a pouch which he had with him, he took out powders which he had made from the roots and other substances. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z More of the black things were scuttling out of the dark, their feet beating a quick staccato rhythm against roots and rocks and leaves. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The ground was uneven, with roots protruding from the forest floor, and when she reached out to steady herself on a nearby tree trunk she felt something move beneath her fingers. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I look at the bushes, the clods of dirt hanging from their roots, and catch my breath as the word rose registers. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She yanks another weed free, its thin roots wilting in her grasp. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He was still on the hill behind his house, nestled in the roots of the yew tree towering over him. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z The roots of my hair screamed as I tugged on them. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z She had heavy breasts that swayed when she moved, and her blond hair was dark at the roots. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I said, “One of our most treasured feelings concerns roots, growing up rooted in some soil or some community.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Djel, the wellspring, who fed the seas and rains, and the roots of the sacred ash. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The trees had thrown out low branches, making an impediment to progress; the gnarled roots looked like skeleton claws. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The boom-bap of early hip- hop, still young and close to its Bronx roots, tumbled out of the apartment buildings, mixed with Spanish music blaring from boom boxes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The vast trunk, supported in the grove by its torn-up roots and out on the grass by the mass of branches, was high above their heads. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She slid down the muddy bank, clutching at loose roots that ripped away in her hands, and landed in the turgid water, tumbling over and over in the dark and the cold. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Perhaps we have overrated roots as a psychic need. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Here the roots and stems of creepers were in such tangles that the boys had to thread through them like pliant needles. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z She was a large woman whose hair was dyed platinum blonde except where you could see the mousy-brown bits growing out from the roots. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z “These roots seem to like demigods,” Frank noted. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She nodded, blushing to the roots of her flaming hair, and put her elbow in the butter dish. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Trees, overgrown and huge, grow beyond the cement fixtures intended to keep them enclosed, their roots sprawling over the pavement. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z What are they supposed to do, go back to digging up roots? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But already, the horseradish lady was sitting in front of Hassler’s grinding away at her pungent roots. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Little rabbit heart leaps out of my chest and scampers across the paper, leaving bloody footprints on my roots. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll water it when the earth has cooled a little. If you water a plant when the earth is too warm, it shocks the roots.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z As much as I was ready to leave, and no matter what some folks thought of me, I knew my roots were in Texas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In no time, I have the rabbits and squirrel roasting, the roots, wrapped in leaves, baking in the coals. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Fears of interracial sex and marriage have deep roots in the United States. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The Iroquois Indians used the leaves and roots of this plant to stop bleeding and purify cuts. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The roof’s all tree roots, you know, and of course the tree outside keeps the rain from coming through. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The trees were torn from their roots as it crashed through the forest. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z In addition to vegetables and fruits, they eat insects, grass, roots, and small pieces of clay, which they chew and swallow, perhaps to get salt and minerals. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Blue velvet and hammered silver and braided gold tablecloths are rolled out, each one decorated with the House of Greenbriar’s standard, a tree of flowers, thorns, and roots. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I swore it would grow to be a massive tree whose roots would strangle them all. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Villagers had planted new mangrove plants to replace the bushes and trees torn away by the cyclone, and new roots were beginning to push through the salty soil. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z She wedged the boat between the fig-tree roots that snaked down into the water, to keep it from battering against the rocks. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Below her feet was a tangle of vines and roots, and she had to be careful where she stepped if she wanted to avoid a turned ankle or wrenched knee. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The different colors spoke of the various soils and minerals that the tree’s roots encountered, some harsh and stunting, some rich and nourishing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A mycorrhizal fungus has cells that surround or even go into the roots of a plant. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I hurried off, trying not to trip on the tree roots and rocks. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Do you live on berries, herbs and roots?” he asked. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Its branches are spread over most of the greenhouse, and its roots bubble up from the ground, forming a dense web of bark. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The ramp he’d used to jump the creek—just some dirt and roots over rushing water—was crumbling. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z These roots survive through the winter and then start growing new leaves in the spring. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “The roots give good red. Madder’s better for reds, though. There’s my madder over behind.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In no time, I find the pack, a neat pile of roots beside it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Others stretch wide and deep into the ground, their roots seeming like legs and feet. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z For variety I ate a quarter of the nuts and roots raw. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But she was growing roots where she stood, and staring open- mouthed at the dead man. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z She had only to wedge a pot into the grass ring and climb the fig roots. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There were splashes on the roots of a tree, as though the poor creature had been thrashing around in pain close by. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z It has a waterfall without water and flowers without scent and trees without roots. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z The elephant tears up living trees, dragging their precious roots from the dirt they love. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z On our side of the pond there’s a strip of sandy beach, but the far side has a steep, scooped-out bank, tangled with bushes and the roots of trees. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z A fight snow had fallen the night before, and there were stones and roots and hidden sinks lying just under its crust, waiting for the careless and the unwary. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Be assured that I pull at the roots of these sympathies. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Were it buried beneath the roots of Mindolluin, still it would burn your mind away, as the darkness grows, and the yet worse things follow that soon shall come upon us.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Gangsta rap—while it may amount to little more than a minstrel show when it appears on MTV today—has its roots in the struggle for a positive identity among outcasts. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Frank watched as the god picked leaves and roots and crushed them in a mortar. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z |
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