The nightshade plant is related to the potato, which accounts for the similar shape of the flowers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

After a bit of inquiry, the landlord placed the home on the rental market with a severe discount to account for the sensational circumstances of the prior tenant’s eviction. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

At least, I must go limp, because I find myself at the base of the flagpole, unable to account for the last few seconds. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But since then it has indeed been uninterrupted and continuous; as an account of modern science, the preface is spot on. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He led him to the desk and showed him the ledgers and accounts of the general store. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

To a Haitian, every pig was a bank account—it could be bartered for food, shelter, medicine, even school tuition for a child. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She should begin, as she had decided earlier, with a simple account of what she had seen at the fountain. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She had been breathless up to now on account of Sir Ector’s rebuke. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

On account of my mood, Ma thought my leg had me down in the body, so she brought me my supper in bed. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Why did the trajectory equation need to account for the oblateness of Earth? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I scurried past the Farmers Telephone Company to pop into the Citizens National Bank to open an account. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I expect they did,” said Jon Connington, “but what messages would they have carried? At best, some garbled account of raiders from the sea.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And even though I already knew that I would never believe any account that justified this taking, I sat down to read the story. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

At 8:43 a.m. he mused over the radio, “Some of Andy’s gear is still here. I thought he must have gone ahead in the nighttime. Listen, can you account for him or not?” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The details vary, the dialogue is not identical, but in substance the two accounts—thus far, at least—corroborate one another. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, we should be able to request a special school on account of special circumstances.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Earth, the meeting agreed, was a mosaic of interconnected segments whose various stately jostlings accounted for much of the planet’s surface behavior. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

According to the unsympathetic account of Cabello Balboa, Washkar’s mother, who was apparently willing to marry her dead brother, objected to her son’s plan to marry her daughter. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

No one my age in my country has a bank account or even dreams of having one, much less property to declare. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He walked to the table and laid the letter in front of her on top of the account book. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

This last dimension of the deal was not terribly attractive, so Jefferson left it out of his account altogether. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And he must feel lonely on account of how he came up the hill on his own. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Having returned to her spot on the grassy knoll, Ruby Archuleta said cheerfully, “This game is called on account of attempted murder.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reynie had never known his parents, who died when he was an infant, and it pleased him to read a notice that seemed to take this possibility into account. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

They needed every cent they could get on account of her brother not being able to work. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, the first Sumerian texts are emotionless accounts of palace and temple bureaucrats. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He thought it possible that mistakes by inexperienced sonar operators could account for the reports of enemy torpedoes. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna's hands, desirable by Peeta's confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Earths gravity exerted its force on the satellite and had to be accounted for in the trajectory’s system of equations. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

To most historians, the colonial accounts came to seem exaggerated, though exactly why was not often explained. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

What Lifshitz and Khalatnikov did was to study models of the universe that were roughly like Friedmann’s models but took account of the irregularities and random velocities of galaxies in the real universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although not reaching the virtuosic literary heights of incarceration essays penned by writers such as Thoreau or Martin Luther King Jr., the document was an oddly compelling account of the execrable details of his experience. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Mama Ya-Ya,” I say, “I’m going to go to Mr. Ng’s store. I think I should get more water. Canned foods. Is that okay? We can put it on account?” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Grasse needed his word in order to account for the ability of such tiny, blind, and relatively brainless animals to erect structures of such vast size and internal complexity. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In your account. Under my name, but in your special account.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Many research workers canceled their accounts in expectation of being called up in the draft. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This fine account of him,” whispered her aunt as they walked, “is not quite consistent with his behaviour to our poor friend.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Some accounts claim he identified himself as a god. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also read an account of Nazi general Ernst Kaltenbrunner, a leader of the SS who ended up being found guilty at the Nuremberg trials and executed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was growing late, and Miss Bates became anxious to get home, on her mother’s account. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Though Mandela and Tambo had closed its doors and settled its remaining accounts, I continued to do whatever legal work I could. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I paid GSS a monthly fee for unlimited data storage on my account, and I was about to test its limits. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Others argued that it must be some King of the Giants who was buried there, to account for its size. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That was not the only rebuke I received on account of my trespasses against the reverend. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what accounts for the failure of Aboriginal Australians to pass beyond the stage of hunter-gatherers with stone tools? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are few surviving accounts detailing the relationship, but it was likely an arranged marriage: youths—Mollie was only fifteen at the time—pressed together to preserve a vanishing way of life. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

For all his brilliance, real science accounted for only a part of his interests. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The basic history of the empire was known well enough by the time Dobyns began reading the old colonial accounts. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A few seconds later, Shoto logged back into his account, and his avatar materialized a short distance in front of me, in the exact spot where he’d been killed a few hours earlier. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Katie was running awkwardly, not balancing well on account of having both hands clutched under her apron. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Camilla falls after giving a very good account of herself; the wicked Mezentius meets the fate he so richly deserves, but only after his brave young son is killed defending him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t my favorite subject on account of the fact that I don’t really have ears. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t have the vocabulary for a warfare account in French, and I can’t write fluently enough in German. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In the Hamiltonian account, the exchange would have been nearly simultaneous. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

While Strider was gone, Frodo gave Merry a rapid account of all that had happened since supper. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

After listening to my mom’s account of Rosa Parks’s protest, I thought about the power she had. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I read the number of Auntie Buzz’s checking account to Ms. Young, who said she would send Buzz the paperwork right away. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, although I couldn’t attest any of it to three decimal places, I had a pretty good notion of the weather conditions generally, on account of I was out in them. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

And he had occasionally made large cash deposits into his checking account—far more money than he earned from his salary at the CIA. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the OASIS, I closed all the windows on my display and set my account’s security level to maximum. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They might even have been friends from school who’d grown up and were now middle-aged, which would account for the fact that they looked familiar but strange. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

While lots of white folks would buy moonshine from Norris, you could tell that at the same time everyone thought he was shiftless and no account. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glances my way on account of my knowing his secret. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

"And forty more—twenty knights with as many squires. If I arrive without a knightly tail, the Tyrells will think me of small account." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the hands of Voltaire, say, or Jonathan Swiff, these accounts stimulated a new perspective on European society, forcing a reconsideration of that insular world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, presenting the account book and the eyeglasses. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Greek mythology is largely made up of stories about gods and goddesses, but it must not be read as a kind of Greek Bible, an account of the Greek religion. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s okay. I lose myself. It’s just my oddball way of accounting for someone I don’t really understand any more than you do.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

But without college, how will I learn anything of any account to teach others? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He believed in a child-centered education that promoted understanding the world from the child’s level, taking into account individual development and concrete, tactile experiences such as working directly with plants, minerals for science, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

We could get but confused accounts of the engagement. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“If you ask me—and you don’t have to, since it’s your money—I’d put it in a savings account for college. It would be a good start.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The impact on those major elections undoubtedly would be greater if all those deterred or prevented from voting were taken into account. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. K is calling me Bobby now, except in front of customers, when he still calls me Mr. Goodspeed, on account of putting on a good show, I figure. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

If other Americans reading this account should feel it true, that agreement would only mean that we are alike in our Americanness. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Judging from Dr. Bright's accounts, the men of London dressed in splendid clothing, all ornamented and embroidered, and spoke in a civil and cultured manner. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was thinking, when she continued, “Do you have any property, a bank account that will guarantee your return?” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We had all read dozens of accounts of parties favored to win who came in second. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The authorities were extremely strict about this, and the only kind of publication that would pass muster might be a quarterly on actuarial science for a prisoner studying accounting. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He believed, like the man in Lord Tennyson, that people could only have the strength of ten cm account of their hearts being pure. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not account for the strange tone of his voice, an unnatural sound, how it was almost, but not quite, kind. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was planning to. It depends if they shut down the whole state on account of the snow.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pay two hundred and forty dollars each, the kind of price you can get away with charging people whose savings accounts would go to waste otherwise. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In this way, measured radiocarbon dates can be “calibrated” to take account of fluctuations in the atmospheric carbon ratio. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Able-bodied men and childbearing women fetched more than juveniles, making an individual accounting difficult. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

My parents didn't have life insurance, or much in terms of a savings account. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

For example, the theory predicts that the light cones of points near the sun would be slightly bent inward, on account of the mass of the sun. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was two days later that they discovered the combined accounts were worth more than forty-eight million dollars. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Eventually she made him open a separate checking account for the lab, and kept him away from their personal money as much as she could. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And you have to keep them inside all winter, or they get too wet and cold, even in California, on account of them not having proper feathers. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Injury rates were, by all accounts, far higher in the 1920s and 1930s; between 1935 and 1939 alone, nineteen riders were killed in racing accidents. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He says I can take our money to a bank here, open an account, and send Mamá a piece of paper called a ‘check.’ Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“But I thought it was quite a coincidence. Few people have access down here, and everyone else was more or less accounted for last night.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

When he thought that the river was navigable, José Arcadio Segundo gave his brother a detailed account of his plans and the latter gave him the money he needed for the enterprise. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Or maybe someone else killed her, some bad guy who followed her and stole her purse and emptied her current account. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“I do not get on at all. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

The story of the escape and their own account of the fight in the woods did much to alleviate Fletcher’s dismay. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Some brief remarks of my own, appended to an account of this batde, and perhaps others this army has fought. Some notes as to the tactics.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Unlike weeds, I had to be replanted, you see, given food and water. On account of you. That was the deal Jalil made with his family.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

This conferred instant credibility upon his preferred role as designated truth teller, poised to expose the chaotic reality beneath all uplifting accounts of the Revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Even though I had been at Hampden only a few days, I was already accustomed to the official accounts of financial hardship, of limited endowment, of corners cut. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Of course she likes you,” Jonathan tells Gogol, patiently listening to a minute account of their acquaintance one night in the dining hall. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For later readers this was the paradigmatic account of discovery; Vergil, who certainly read Vitruvius, makes no reference to it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Because I had written Blue from my secret account this morning. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

By all accounts—from friends, family, and associates like Sam Crook—Walter generally tried to do the right thing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Letters and oral accounts from 1938 show that listeners were taken in by the real names of places. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

In the federal system, for example, homicide convictions account for 0.4 percent of the past decade’s growth in the federal prison population, while drug convictions account for nearly 61 percent of that expansion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But most people do, on account of the fact that Mikey Sanders helped kill a man. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I guess I must have blown that audition all on my own, on account of no rabbit foot. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

By all accounts those storytellers, born Black and male before the turn of the twentieth century, should have been ground into useless dust. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are about seventy thousand accounting grads in India each year, he added, many of whom go to work for local Indian firms starting at $100 a month. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

First, I bring up my shields and switch to the anonymous, invisible version of my account. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Applicant 1: “It should be based on accounts, then, where I can grow, I can grow in my career.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

A service fee of $30.00 has been charged to your account. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Nobody could eat him,” said I. “But from then on Campbell Junior got fatter and fatter, and it’s all on account of Aunt Loma havin’ so much milk from gettin’ started good with that pig.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The town’s teachers served as agents of the bank and every week collected money from the children for deposit in each child’s passbook account. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Hoover also told Stone that per his wishes he had raised the employment qualifications for new agents, requiring them to have some legal training or knowledge of accounting. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But under Pennsylvania law, the judge could not take the absence of intent into account during sentencing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

On the FBI’s public website, the account of the Doll Woman case still omits any mention of her, even though the need for secrecy is long past. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Out of all those interests grew my most recent book, a nontechnical account of human evolution entitled The Third Chimpanzee. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She followed a bunch of vintage photography accounts on Instagram, and old apothecary bottles were a favorite subject. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There were ripples round it, for under the banks the current was as swift as in midstream, on account of weed-cutting and sound camp-sheeting. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beth took an observation of the new boys and decided that the lame one was not ‘dreadful’, but gentle and feeble, and she would be kind to him on that account. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not the accounts for over ten years, Lee!” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No, but don’t go dry on my account.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By all accounts, Jack did not furnish a single word to assist the poor players, who were forced to invent or to omit whole passages. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I work in a big accounting firm, doing a lot of standard work. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

This seems a fairly arresting statistic until two more facts are taken into account. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

One account of it has it that his severed head was brought to where Antony was having supper. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Her death in 1919 is well documented in public records, photographs, witness accounts, and newspaper articles. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

These events were seized upon by the press, and their vivid accounts of what had taken place shocked the country and led to a public outcry for the suffragists. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

After she shuts the door, we discuss the point value breakdown and how ridiculous it is that swimsuit accounts for more than talent. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It would have been wrong to say that the players’ behavior posed a constant challenge to authorities, because by their account authorities made no effort to stop them and in many cases protected them. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poor bird had been picturing all the fights —almost certainly picturing them quite wrong: nourishing a starved heart on secondhand accounts in secret: wondering whose token was in the place of honour today. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a sort of themed autobiography—an account of Newman’s own loss of faith and the quest for a new one. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am very glad to hear such a good account of her,” said Lady Catherine; “and pray tell her from me, that she cannot expect to excel if she does not practice a good deal.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

If I'd had a bank account, things would have been different, I can tell you. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, but I thought that was on account of you liking him, see? Some folks pretend not to like the person they most love.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Morrison’s former wife, Cole—who said she hadn’t come forward right after the murder because Morrison had threatened to “stomp me to death”—corroborated his account. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In the school bus from Tembisa, reading the gruesome accounts of what took place in Soweto in the late afternoon edition of the World, I felt hate and anger well up inside me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the account I struck upon an especially suitable simile in comparing the Scenicruiser bus to a loop-the- loop in a surrealistic amusement park.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And finally, and perhaps more obviously, he attacked Pythagoras’s scheme with the most self-evident of arguments: it could not possibly account for female anatomy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Your money all goes into a trust account,” said her mother’s husband. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I start to walk straight in and Boggs stops me, shows me that I must wave my schedule in front of a scanner so that I’m accounted for. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth’s spirits soon rising to playfulness again, she wanted Mr. Darcy to account for his having ever fallen in love with her. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Uncle hated to be disturbed when he was doing accounts. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

He would have given also an account of his party and disappearance from the Shire, if he had been allowed; but Elrond raised his hand. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Though Pauling had got the a-helix almost without the X-ray evidence, he knew of its existence and to a certain extent had taken it into account. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

But she had not taken the War into account. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He usually took his pay in trade: flour, coffee, spice, dried beans, and canned goods; or put it on account for a day when we needed more than lobsters would buy. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

That’s the other powerful motivation—the customers, or “patients,” as I can’t help thinking of them on account of the mysterious vulnerability that seems to have left them temporarily unable to feed themselves. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were many Jewish persons on my staff throughout all my years with his lordship, and let me say furthermore that they were never treated in any way differently on account of their race. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Read carefully the news accounts revealed that most of these women, subdued and broken, had not been defenseless. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Rocinante has been neglected in this account, it is because she performed perfectly. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the Little children, present and accounted for. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned back in his seat and kept desultory account of all that went on around him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I remember, for instance, books such as Will Durant’s story of Oriental civilization, and Mahatma Gandhi’s accounts of the stmggle to drive the British out of India. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from making one extended trip back to Hawaii when Barack was ten, his father—a man who by all accounts had both a powerful mind and a powerful drinking problem—remained absent and unengaged. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But publishers found the account less than captivating. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The bank in place, she put on her nightgown again, started off the land account by putting a nickel in the bank and got back into bed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Homo sapiens, the brain accounts for about 2–3 per cent of total body weight, but it consumes 25 per cent of the body’s energy when the body is at rest. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just waited for things to blow over, which I was convinced they would do on account of Charlie having a brain. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mother sat in the parlor reviewing her housekeeping accounts. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was like all her emotions were spent, on account of everything she went through in her young years. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

African American boys made up less than 30 percent of Oakland’s underage population but accounted for nearly 75 percent of all juvenile arrests. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A mere dozen species account for over 80 percent of the modern world’s annual tonnage of all crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Itching to finally catch up with Thomas, I dashed to my desk and logged in to my email account. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The accounts of the Seward attack stunned Booth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn't supposed to come back after Christmas vacation on account of I was flunking four subjects and not applying myself and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Major approaches to music education: An account of method. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

This discovery presented fundamental difficulties for any account of how the compass worked, but it also raised the exciting possibility that variation might be sufficiently regular for it to be used to measure longitude. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Here’s another case. A man has relatives in the old country but he can’t get them over here on account of a lot of red tape. Well, Tammany can fix that up.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This account then is what he has received from Mr. Darcy. I am satisfied. But what does he say of the living?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I settled at my desk and logged into my email account on my new tablet. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Their analysis revealed that, following each visit to the Soviet embassy, Ames had made a large cash deposit into one of his accounts. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

That is to say, I did not take sufficient account of the fact that at that time of the day, what Mr Farraday enjoys is a conversation of a lighthearted, humorous sort. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

However, by all accounts, this year’s event was bittersweet, as some of the class members were not present. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

In analyzing these spectra, O. B. Toon, J. B. Pollack and I found that certain features seem best accounted for by montmorillonite and other kinds of clay. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coins and pieces of paper and checkbooks and numbers in bank accounts. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

So after that she behaved pretty well, only one time she asked to see a statement of the bank account. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if the deputies didn’t believe their convenient account, even if Toby wouldn’t say a word to implicate Luke, it didn’t matter. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We got an account there when we moved here. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

From the bull’s side, just forward of the flank, protruded a feathered arrow-end, which accounted for his savageness. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got the accounts together. We can go over them later,” said Lee. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m storing today’s game as a new Memory World in my account. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So I drew a blobby version of me, a fraction of my real size, fingers and toes accounted for, stones in my belly, cute earrings, ponytail. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

"Thank you for reminding me that I will never be queen on account of my sister," Sophia snaps, her voice booming. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He gave a ferocious yawn and ran his fingers sleepily through his hair, as people often do when they first awake, which likely accounted for its disheveled state. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was not given to boasting, and had offered his account simply as an answer to Unferth's lie. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colonel Hawkins was in a right foul mood on account of all the forms he had to fill out and reports that were late. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put the accounts away and made a tour through the house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Does the figure take into account the increasing number of women in the work force, and their age and experience? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My auntie wouldn't let me blow on account of my asthma. He said you blew from down here." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Historical accounts of Odessa do not accurately indicate how many settlers bought lots. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t hear the answer, on account of the moped starting up. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

On account of the heat, there are still a few actual bathers on the beach, but I am content to sit in shorts and T-shirt and watch the ocean pummel the sand. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stole her dad's savings account information, went to the public library, used the Internet, and transferred four thousand dollars into the account she had used at college. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did a linguistic or cultural factor account for the otherwise puzzling failure of complex Andean civilizations to develop writing? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Paul had developed her organization without support from the national board, and she wasn’t eager to hand over the bank account and her decision-making power. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In recent years, dictionaries have come to accept a looser usage, meaning “because of” or “on account of”: Richie threw the suit away due to the hole. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Put it on Mama Ya-Ya’s account,” I say, pointing at the bread, milk, and water on the counter. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“The accounts we receive here,” he lamented, “are so opposite and unsatisfactory that we know not on what to rely.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The profile listed my indent account balance, pay grade, blood type, current performance review rating—every scrap of data the company had on me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Still, he made plans about how he could take from the larder what he at all account deserved, even if he wasn't hungry. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was its fashion, while Saruman was at his height, accounted by many the chief of Wizards. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The ground is flat, the sun is already hot, and the grass is high, but I barely notice any of it on account of my aching feet. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

This is because he finds it hard to move on account of the fact that he’s so old. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then I wait in my virtual room, sending out pings and invites every few seconds to the accounts of my teammates. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dad, Dad, Dad, stop with the accounting talk for a minute. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Father, this hero has fought long and hard for our cause. His nerves are frayed. We should take that into account.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It is almost always possible to present an intellectually honest and engaging account of any field, using a minimum of technical apparatus. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the Theorem, he decided, couldn't take into account its own influence. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

She was, by her own account, responsible for the death of her own children. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It would have been wrong to say that Gary Edwards abused the rules, because by his own account and those of others there were no rules for football players. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now look here. You see your name? The account is in your name. That money is yours. We haven’t taken a dime. It’s for you.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I went circuitously to Miss Havisham’s by all the back ways, and rang at the bell constrainedly, on account of the stiff long fingers of my gloves. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“She goes on to say, ‘I’m really sorry about the college accounts. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He did not wait for her to sit down before opening the account book and paging through to a section marked with a ribbon. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I can set up an account for you, if you want. You could send his son a friend request or a Facebook message.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I never saw it on you before, which accounts for the mistake, you see.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is one thing we have not taken into account,” he said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lori and Pauline are excused from vacuuming on account of their backs, which means you dread being assigned to a team with them. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your boss asks you to figure out for accounting reasons who, among all the physicians covered by the company, is most likely to be sued. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

She also had some money in her savings account. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The very considerable rise in the fame and fortune of the Cottons dates from this time; but at the top of the Roll in all accounts stand the names of Captains Meriadoc and Peregrin. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Now he reached up inside his coat, cupped the stump of his arm in his right hand, and thought of all he had to do on account of the power being out. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

You can’t use paper money there, you got to be a member and charge it to your account and one thing I know about Miss Hilly is, she don’t like to carry nobody’s costs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I think his mates call him Merv, anyway, on account of the mustache. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“The new tech is growing at exponential rates and we’re asking the court to take that into account.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I hear Raleigh’s new accounting business isn’t doing well. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It’ll then take them weeks to reclaim their lost avatar and account. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Indeed, and rather extraordinarily, we would be well into the space age before anyone could plausibly account for where all the Earth’s old rocks went. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

At the town's main inn, however, I was informed all the rooms were occupied on account of a local agricultural fair. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It is necessary to take into account the interaction of ideas, images and fantasies as well. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suffice to say that there is a core of truth to Jefferson’s account of the dinner-table bargain, though it vastly oversimplifies the history that was happening at that propitious moment. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Administrators at Amherst and Harvard have also recently said that they would redouble their efforts to take into account the obstacles students have overcome. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I was almost demolished during World War II on account of my seeming Japanese. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

On a mild afternoon in early December I am at the store going over inventory orders with Margaret, the sharp-eyed accounts manager. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She rushed out to the delicatessen store and beguiled the man into letting her open a charge account until Saturday payday. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, all the water in the atmosphere of Mars today could be accounted for by a recent impact of a small comet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother had handled them all, with the help—through the mail—of his father, and he had some money in an account for college. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Many tests are done, and while there’s damage to my vocal cords, it doesn’t account for it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They took the nerves of steel into account, but not the small mistake. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

"My auntie told me not to run," he explained, "on account of my asthma." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But Maryland has been declared one of the safest states, on account of our work patrols and the very active militia, with Washington, DC, being nearby. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

There’s always profit-taking or the federal deficit or something or other to account for a bearish turn, and improved corporate earnings or interest rates or whatever to account for a bullish one. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the women wrote accounts of the force-feedings, which were smuggled out of the jail by visitors. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Any brief account of the rest of Galileo’s life is inevitably dominated by his subsequent clash with the authorities in Rome. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

All luck, no accounting for it, except for the fact that I always sell my stock fast. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father went to the demons’ library and read through all the newspapers gathered from around the country, and he copied out the accounts of them. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The postmark on Miss Peregrine’s letter was fifteen years old, but by all accounts she’d been blown into the stratosphere back in 1940. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The hiring of additional police accounted for roughly 10 percent of the 1990s crime drop. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In Mesoamerica, timekeeping provided the stimulus that accounting gave to the Middle East. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Bull was reading an account of a Celtic-Knickerbocker game that had gone into overtime. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only part that seemed really to rouse him and hold his attention was the account of the crowning and marriage of Aragorn. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The boss had to make out a check for nearly four hundred dollars—the balance due on the involuntarily canceled account. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, most scholars judiciously use the colonial accounts, as I try to do here. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Finally, he gave them a detailed account of Kidd’s time in the army and his later activities. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Written accounts of earlier expeditions motivated later ones, by describing the wealth and fertile lands awaiting the conquerors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dad had the whole summer off on account of his temporary unemployment, and Mom was staying with friends back in New York City to do some well-paid consulting for a month. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I didn't worry about accounting—I had a 100 average in that class. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I may in fact have done so a little too swiftly on account of my disturbance, for Mr Farraday gave a small start, muttering: 'Ah, Stevens.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas Thistlewood, the plantation owner who cataloged his sexual exploits, had a lifelong relationship with a slave named Phibbah, whom, by all accounts, he adored, and who bore him a son. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

We were far away from credit cards in those days, and the equivalent was an account at the corner grocery. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Would you be so good as to give me a brief account of your movements last night from dinner onwards?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

CJ, short for Calamity Jane/Jude, is what everyone at school calls me on account of my “bad luck.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

On account of how he used to bring in cans with Tariq, I figure. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He must have been drunk, although the newspaper account said nothing about this. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Whoever’s commercials created the greatest increase in response to the local TV Guide and Parade advertising would win the whole account. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It spooks me on account of my dream. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It will not get hot enough to emit X rays, but it could account for the very compact source of radio waves and infrared rays that is observed at the galactic center. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It accounts for roughly one-third of the drop in crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He was fighting for his life and a good account he gave. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found Pollard mad with pain, “hotter than a smoking .45,” went one account, “and not holding back.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see him sobbing during his account and his family gradually joining him in crying. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But though Bear and I were strangers to Great Wexly—and I a wolf’s head—no one seemed to care, though they did glance at Bear, if only on account of his size. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Yet he came closer, he believed, to the Old Testament account of creation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“These morons didn’t take into account the seaweed.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

If any man will indulge himself in this Speculation, he need not quarrel with revealed Religion upon such an account. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

These two ideas transcend our finite understanding, he wrote, “the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness.” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He was reading the girl’s account of the day she and her sister were taken by slavers when Penny entered the galley. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The inflatable shark naturally led to the puddle of heavy cream, which, if lapped from the floor with slow, steady precision, could account for up to twenty minutes of valuable stage time. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

With help from Molly, Vivian sets up an Amazon account and orders books. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She is proud that her money pays Belky’s tuition at a private high school and eventually a college, to study accounting. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She needed to write two checks, one for cash and the other to move money into the company’s payroll account. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Well, I used the computer right after you,” he says, “and when I typed in Gmail, it pulled up your account. You probably should have logged out.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

We filled out a bunch of forms and then had brand-new bank accounts, complete with debit cards that would arrive in seven to ten days. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Xan couldn’t account for what the second figure was—it didn’t look like anything that she had ever seen before—but the first thing was unmistakable. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Christmas vacation wasn’t really a vacation, on account of how it was our last chance to study for exams, which started the day after we got back. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

CBS and The Mercury Theatre received telegrams, phone calls, and letters that supported some of those accounts. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Or—all right now—there was one fellow needed a hand with things on account of he’d broke his hip, I believe it was. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The last thing I needed was more trouble on account of independence. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guy he’d bought the radio from said he was selling it cheap on account of him moving to an oil field in Oklahoma and not wanting more stuff to haul. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The others had been talking of the child, Mrs. Weston giving an account of a little alarm she had been under, the evening before, from the infant’s appearing not quite well. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Shiny, bright blue shorts are not a good look for me, especially since I had to get a size small on account of me being so skinny. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

When Elizabeth reported that Emma was still very much in grief, an aunt wrote, “We are disappointed at your account of dear Emma.... However, we must have patience and wait.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t die of the cold this night, not on my account. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

One thing I hadn't accounted for was how to bring them from the Hab to the rovers. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

That accounts for some of the discrepancies that readers may note between this book’s dates and those quoted in some standard reference books on early food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The others are on Long Island or in Westchester or Florida, depending on their ages and their bank accounts. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“People overdraw their accounts all the time,” she said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They think they’re being modern men, intellectuals, on account of their education, I suppose. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Guenever did not feel remorse on her own account, but she caught it from her lover. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light in the room was extremely gloomy on account of the rain, and so we moved two armchairs up close to the bay window. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I charge the eighty-five dollars to Mother’s account since she’s always begging me to go buy new clothes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The errors, then, lie not in the abstractness or concreteness, not in geometry or physics, but in a calculator who does not know how to make a true accounting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A newspaper account described typical Levittown home buyers as “young persons of moderate financial circumstances who had small children and might expect others.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

By their very nature chemical controls are self-defeating, for they have been devised and applied without taking into account the complex biological systems against which they have been blindly hurled. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Indeed, you are mistaken, Madam. I have not been at all able to account for the honour of seeing you here.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

"Don't trouble him on my account! My friend here can barely keep up with me as it is." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Lee Chong tilted his head back and stared at Horace through his half-glasses while his mind flicked among accounts and his right hand moved restlessly to the abacus. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Each of you will see the prize amount as a pending number in your bank accounts.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In theory, if Jena or Kento get their hands on Sudden Death, I might be able to hack into their player accounts. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I will on no account have anything to do with girls. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She even sends us sometimes to bring back meat from the butcher marché, a place where Rachel will not set foot on account of the intestines and neatly stacked heads. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One more;—they would not fatigue Miss Fairfax on any account, and would only ask for one more.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Of course he’d follow a civil rights case, especially when it was in Mississippi, and he probably couldn’t wait to get my eyewitness account of the whole trial. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

You never knew what he was thinking, never even knew if he was looking at you—on account of he was slightly cockeyed. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Variations of it account for some of the “grass is always greener” mentality that frequently accompanies the release of statistics on income. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very little is known about his early life, but some accounts say that he also studied at Oxford, although there is no formal record of this. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Then you know all of our money is going to bill collectors for credit-card accounts and old loans. Sam may have a job now, but we’re in the negative. We’re drowning in debt!” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I scroll until I see the brand-new Sudden Death item in her account, shiny and scarlet. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Writing a check would leave her account empty. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He recalled Bilbo’s account of his journey and the threatening towers on the hills north of the Road, in the country near the Troll’s wood where his first serious adventure had happened. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Those who think that modern science derives from the empirical experimental enquiries of craftsmen and artisans need to account for the extraordinarily slow evolution of water-wheel technology prior to the introduction of Smeaton’s scientific method. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He demands to hear it all, and the men sheepishly give a full account. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

His pants and jacket were wrinkled, but he didn’t look as derelict as some of the press accounts had indicated. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

On account of Independence I’d been thinking more about money than ever before in my life, aside from story problems for sixth-grade math. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, I finish forwarding all my emails from my old account. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I hope it is not true what they are saying, that the government will take over all Biafran bank accounts.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

On this account belief in magic ought not to have declined until the nineteenth century, or even later. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she’ll glimpse the hour on a dusty Canada Dry clock, or look at the sun low in the sky, and realize she cannot account for her time. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His speech was extremely slow on account of a learning disability. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Voldemort was sent to persuade people to part with their treasures for sale by the partners, and he was, by all accounts, unusually gifted at doing this.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Assume Shakespeare’s account is accurate and Julius Caesar gasped “You too, Brutus” before breathing his last. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glass has been removed on account of the heat, and although it is still powerful hot out, the beginnings of a breeze makes it’s lazy way through the compartment, providing a bit of relief. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“You don’t say! There’s no accounting for taste.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It can best be approached by concentrating attention on historical patterns that remain puzzling after the effects of major environmental factors have been taken into account. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Reck could read and write, and he was possessed of enough base cunning to have hidden an account of what they'd done. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“You came to me because I have a bank account.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

By all accounts, Andre was a model British officer with impeccable manners, who had the misfortune to be caught doing his duty. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Patrick’s mom made him erase his account, and then she made him watch a documentary with her about cyber- bullying,” Em said, her breath billowing white in the cold air and then disappearing. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

With Peeta’s grisly account fresh in our minds, we crunch through the streets of broken glass until we reach our target, the block we are to take. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

My mother was going to accompany me to London and see me on to the Derby train, but she had been told that on no account should she travel farther than that. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jus doesn’t know much about watches, but he’s about eighty-seven percent sure this one is vintage and worth more money than Mama’s ever had in her bank account at once. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He’d been sluggish, slow to react when they’d ambushed the wagon, but that was all, and he could make up some excuse to account for it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

To understand long-ago Indian lives, one cannot avoid the accounts of the first literate people who saw them: European swashbucklers, fortune hunters, and missionaries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She started several new credit card accounts and arranged for the bills to be paid automatically every month. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As important as these factors were, however, they account inadequately for my academic advance. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He received a letter dated April 7, 2005, from the Union Bank of Switzerland to the effect that the institution was closing his account. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But the old teacher had reassured Baba that the engine and transmission were sound and, on that account, the man hadn’t lied. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I always had to know my parents’ passwords for email and other accounts, in case of any problems. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Each time, reading the account of Akaky’s christening, and the series of queer names his mother had rejected, Ashoke laughed aloud. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had checked the balance in their retirement account. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was accounted great discourtesy to put any question to a guest before his wants had been satisfied. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why I went to jail. It was on account of the music.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

How can we account for the empirical observation that band or tribal organization just does not work for societies of hundreds of thousands of people, and that all existing large societies have complex centralized organization? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

How could such a small target account for such a vast anger? The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Ay, sir, free enough for honest folks. Mr. Kirwin is a magistrate, and you are to give an account of the death of a gentleman who was found murdered here last night.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Traffic on roads and streets was not unusual that night, casting doubt on accounts of tens of thousands of people fleeing on foot or in their cars. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

With infinite pains and surpassing skill she produced a wondrous tapestry on which the whole account of her wrongs was unfolded. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, chickpeas are widely grown by traditional farmers from the Mediterranean and Ethiopia east to India, with the latter country accounting for 80 percent of the world’s chickpea production today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

From the branches hang hundreds of wind chimes, which account for the tinkling I heard. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

An 1870s account, quoted in Into the Mountains, observes: “Mt. Lafayette is...a true alp, with peaks and crags on which lightnings play, its sides brown with scars and deep with gorges.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Not until we’ve left the studio behind do I reach into my pocket, grab my phone, and log in to my bank account. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This is a natural notion and can still be encountered, although it does not account for the invisibility of objects in a darkened room. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It helped, but I didn’t want her to burn so many calories on my account. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood and went to the desk where Mother used to work out our household accounts. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

What Woundwort knew was that those beyond the wall were afraid of him and that on this account he had the advantage. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he would open a bank account, and a week or so later, he would withdraw all the money from a teller inside the bank while Mom withdrew the same amount from the drive-through window. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

By all accounts, he was a “very elegant gentleman.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The version that his account is hooked up to is obviously different from mine, giving him in-game abilities that I don’t have. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Most men thought the Labrador could have been lost from a hunting trip, but nobody could account for an unlikely bull terrier as his companion. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There may well have been other more fundamental developments to account for what took place. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sarah later related to me her account of what happened that morning. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen, Cutie, if there is no such thing as Earth, how do you account for what you see through a telescope?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Todd13 scowled and his face actually turned red—a sign that he hadn’t bothered to turn off his account’s real-time emotion feature, which made your avatar mirror your facial expressions and body language. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

An account of the abuses in District 4? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We did not take into account the different situations of landlords and tenants. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he doesn’t know my password, so the account itself should be safe. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Mum was doing her accounts on the kitchen table. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A few months later, the Getty’s curator of antiquities, Marion True, wrote a long, glowing account of the museum’s acquisition for the art journal The Burlington Magazine. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It was an old newspaper account of a fire from a small-town weekly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s hard to say. Maybe I was mistaken about them being there in my living room. I can’t account for anything I see when I start blanking out,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Blood managed the accounting and worked as Woodhull’s secretary, often writing documents for her, because she had never learned elegant penmanship or proper punctuation. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Bessie put the salt beef and milk and the rest of the supper makings on the family’s account. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

No one could guess how long it would take until everyone was accounted for. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once when I filched a cookie from the jar, Mom called me the Blushing Bandit, on account of my red face. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I log back in to my email account and see that I have one new message. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, at the outset, I say frankly that there are phases of Native Son which I shall make no attempt to account for. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Though the solutions he’ll go on to propose differ substantially, Obama’s account of America’s situation there is not all that different from what his Republican opponents would have acknowledged. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He hadn't even reached double digits yet, and he had a detailed account of every high school boy I loved. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He must help his mother pack her things, settle her accounts. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Then how do you account for all those A’s?” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything would depend on what ancient findings we had accidentally been told about, and how accurate the account was. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By all accounts,” said Brother Luke, “this forest goeth for miles, and it may well be that we shall not come out of it by nightfall.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The colonial account of Inka history closest to indigenous sources is byjuan de Betanzos, a Spanish commoner who rose to marry an Inka princess and become the most prominent translator for the colonial government. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After all, we had been away less than a year, and customers whose accounts I had formerly remembered without consulting the ledger were now complete strangers. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of its fifty-two thousand accounts were offshore holdings, secretly deposited—many without names, just numbers—as tax havens for American citizens. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope you’ve taken my inadequacies into account. I’m not as coldproof as you, nowhere near it. I’m no expert on skis. I’m not in good shape—though much improved from a few days ago.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They released her five days early on account of Easter. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a thousand dollars in my bank account. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He opens up a checking account, writes his new name into course books. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the first Sorrowful Mystery, she said Papa’s full name, as if she were calling him to account, not praying for him. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mingo had been distant to her on account of the attention that runaways brought to the farm, and when he heard she was wanted for murder, shunned Cora altogether. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Our archaeological knowledge of China’s emerging cities and states then becomes supplemented by written accounts of China’s first dynasties, going back to the Xia Dynasty, which arose around 2000 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I also want to rent a fat-pipe connection. I need to upload a large amount of data to my account.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The accounting procedures used to measure these assets are frequently quite artificial, and there are other complicating factors which are obvious with a little thought. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, he reactivated his account to search for Ifemelu, but she did not have a Facebook profile. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

That he walked in every week to Vincent’s bank to deposit money into his account was something Vincent would not risk losing entirely. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Here are the accounts. Every year has a rubber band around it. I’ve been over it. It’s complete.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I own as I do not, although I stake a claim on a pretty decent fashion sense, on account of my longstanding friendship with a certain party by the name of Joe Bunch. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors said it was chronic hypothermia, with bad diet and a mild case of pneumonia on top of it; but I don’t know if that accounts for all the hallucinations and mental confusion. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t show him my own much more impressive bruise on account of its indiscreet location. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They could ruin a publishing house with ease from their current accounts. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then after a week or two the women usually begin to talk, very softly but without cease, until they’ve finished the accounting of places and people they’ve lost. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

To move students through the system, many refugees were placed in standard classes that, while appropriate for their ages, did not take into account their lack of schooling or English. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“And I heard you got the big Employee of the Month award. On account of your sparkling personality.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Everyone called Smitty the pretty one on account of his dimples and straight teeth. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was an early Sunday morning, almost two o’clock, and he had been checking the accounts with Patterson. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the study, Ophie once again found the man sitting at the desk, still murmuring about accounts and shipping fees. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He was also newly rich and newly disoriented: one week he was broke and squatting in his cousins flat and the next he had millions of naira in his bank account. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

On a winter evening Adam looked up from his account book. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Carl had driven me to the bank so I could withdraw the money from my account. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

So even was my brother, Boromir: a man of prowess, and for that he was accounted the best man in Gondor. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She had opened a bank account and it was growing. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We will have to charge your account for the cleanup.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fleming once more elicited an account of how Hickock had fully informed Wells of his violent plans for the Clutter family. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not on any account,” returned Herbert; “but a public-house may keep a gentleman. Well! Mr. Havisham was very rich and very proud. So was his daughter.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Hundred and twenty-three pound, fifteen, six. Jeweller’s account, I think.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“My dad. His lawyers froze the account. We can’t spend any more money until we see a judge on December sixteenth.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine it now, with the horses twice as heavy as the soft-mouthed hunters of our own midnight pageants, with the men themselves twice heavier on account of arms and shield. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I would not have it ripped apart on my account.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He then reeled off an account of my actions on every job I had held that summer. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

English philosophy has always been thought to be peculiarly empiricist; on this account, it seemed that England had created and invented the culture of the fact. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

So, for example, the child at the window whose account we read first—her fundamental lack of grasp of the situation is nicely caught. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

This ‘nothing’ is important because it undermines the standard account of the origins of experimental science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Immie’s bank and investment accounts had a total of eight million dollars in them. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I sit down on the bed and flip open my laptop, log in to my email account and start to compose a note to my mother. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want the horse to miss any races on his account. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My employee ID was verified and I was automatically logged into my work account on the IOI intranet. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When they left, the doctor gave them some information on ALS, little pamphlets, as if they were opening a bank account. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lady Catherine observed, after dinner, that Miss Bennet seemed out of spirits, and immediately accounting for it herself, by supposing that she did not like to go home again so soon, she added: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

‘It is largely on account of Balin that I have come to ask the advice of those that dwell in Rivendell. But tonight let us speak of merrier things!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Of course, we gave the entire office staff a blow-by-blow account of the incident, which had been far from pleasant. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

His account is simple and straightforward; Ovid’s extremely verbose—for instance, he takes a hundred lines to kill the sea serpent. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, papers and account books and bills of sale, notes, figuring— well, we went through Father’s things and there wasn’t none of that.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Many popular accounts note the coincidence that ‘the’ Isaac Newton was born in the same year, 1642, that Galileo died. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Only that they can’t afford a babysitter, let alone the special weekend Dad is treating Mom to, on account of their admittedly remarkable seventeen years together. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Madam has taken a liking to your Ruth, on account of her being so tiny and quiet.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s taking us to the bank to help us open checking accounts. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I heard Crouch’s confession, and I heard Harry’s account of what happened after he touched the Triwizard Cup; the two stories make sense, they explain everything that has happened since Bertha Jorkins disappeared last summer.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I had no idea how to settle my accounts. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

My father had kept a savings account in a Kraków bank, but those funds had disappeared when all Jewish bank accounts became the property of the Nazis. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He began to explain, and then his mother came back, and it would have looked awkward to stop talking, so he finished his account of the alethiometer and what it did. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

If he occurs at length in this account, it is because he contributed much to the trip. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Let nothing that dwells in Fangorn be troubled on my account!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But then I imagine her giving Corey the blow-by-blow account of what went down, and even if that’s not a fair assumption to make, it’s enough to make me realize I don’t want her there. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It’s ambitious, but since Henry still staunchly covers all his own expenses with his inheritance from his father, his royal accounts are untouched. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Malcolm’s first thought was that a pipe had burst, but that wouldn’t account for the old nun’s terror. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Theon Greyjoy was seated on a bench in Riverrun's Great Hall, enjoying a horn of ale and regaling her father's garrison with an account of the slaughter in the Whispering Wood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She develops software that helps them manage patient care and accounting. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually Berkeley’s auditors would bring the fund fully into the formal regime established for all such trust funds, requiring that it be deposited in an interest-bearing bank account and designated as a university asset. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Palmer’s mind riffled through a thousand answers to account for all this, but only one made sense: Nipper had just landed on his head. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

They say I almost got Papi killed on account of I was so mean to one of the secret police who came looking for him. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

What sense or hope or satisfaction could a reader draw from such an account? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the best way to create an accurate picture of Artemis is to tell the by now famous account of his first villainous venture. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He got out before the draining of bank accounts and the jacking up of credit cards. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They were too dumfounded to wave back, I reckon, or maybe didn’t recognize anybody but me, on account of the linen coats and Mama’s veil and Papa’s goggles. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“You don’t need to like me, Dri. You just need to finish this ride with me, and then we’ll never see each other again. Don’t sweat yourself on my account.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was on account of her that he tried to get his own landscaping business going. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Burnham admitted later that he had hired Pretyman for the job “largely on account of his great friendship for John Root.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He might give the impetus to the falling building, but surely it had to be toppling on its own account before it fell? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I don’t suppose you will be able to keep a diary, Frodo my lad, but I shall expect a full account when you get back. And don’t be too long! Farewell!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It's not a bustle, on account of the fact that Miss Preston finds them hideous and banned them from the school, but the cut of the gown makes it look like she's wearing one. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He knows that it is not one of the Seven, or the Nine, for they are accounted for. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Roman historians, scholars of antiquity and sketchy accounts support all of these views. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Hazel could not help noticing, with reluctant admiration, that although Bigwig had lost his temper, he was apparently in no hurry on his own account and seemed less frightened than any of them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whitby didn’t answer, on account of having his tongue pinned by Italian leather. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In Sacramento, the blue Easter morning seemed always to rhyme with the gospel account of the three Marys wending their way through a garden to discover an empty tomb. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knows this, too, because he signs my monthly check, and then I deposit it into my separate checking account. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout Europe astronomers took a keen interest in what Copernicus had to say, but, with only a very few exceptions, they took it for granted that his account of a moving Earth was simply wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Taking care of accounts was one territory that Mother conceded to me. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have always felt I would make a clear-eyed scientist, on account of it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its account of a voyage to the moon marks the beginning of science fiction in English. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Payment recipients can use the money in their account for online purchases or payments, can receive the payment from PayPal by check, or can have PayPal directly deposit the money into a checking account. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Huron, he reported in an account of his American years, could not understand why one Man should have more than another, and that the Rich should have more Respect than the Poor. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But there are more clicks than can be accounted for by radioactivity. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other cures are harder to account for, but that’s beside the point: medieval people did not share our need to understand the world scientifically. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Given any set of facts, there are countless theories that can account for them, just as there are countless lines that can be drawn through any set of dots to join them together. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In my hacked account, I’m able to wander around as an anonymous player. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

What they didn’t take into account was that Haugland’s fingers were frozen stiff when he sent the most recent message. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Logging on to my YouTube Live account, I adjust the webcam, making sure you can see Abby’s lung drawing directly behind me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I access my account and bring up a scrolling menu, the words a transparent white in my view. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They are created from the most ‘natural’ ratios, even taking into account the distorting fix of Equal Temperament. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I throw in a dab of secondhand Buddhism remembered from a friend’s account of a monastery in northern California where rich people pay to spend their weekends meditating and doing various menial chores, housework included. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were always taken out on expense accounts, so I never felt guilty. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

There was no noon meal on account of that night’s big Saturday supper, the smell of which impelled the students to the barbecue pits. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But their procedure, as it turned out, actually had baked laboratory dust onto the targets, which accounted for the irregular findings. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

All the books tell you that if the grizzly comes for you, on no account should you run. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Just before the court hearing where Governor Fau- bus would be called to account, the nine of us were summoned to Mrs. Bates’s house to meet with the press. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave a scrupulous accounting to his brother and very soon plunged back into the routine of cockfights. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

As a chief — or headman, as it was often known among the whites — my father was compelled to account for his stewardship not only to the Thembu king but to the local magistrate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I won’t risk another dull visit for a while, so I’m having Sheldon, my chauffeur, deliver this account to your home. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing,” I tossed the remote to Zooey and started to stand, but she said, “Don’t leave on my account. I have so much studying to do.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Maria Teresa’s was a tease, and PapS never got to Minerva’s or Patria’s on account of Mama’s disapproval. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every month, I double-check her math to make sure every penny is accounted for. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Eye withdrew a hundred dollars from the expense account. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at Young, feeling that he was making a dreadful mistake, but fearing him because he had, by his own account, the sanction of high political authority. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s sitting in a blue velvet chair in the lobby, going over an accounting notebook. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This account of the end of the Third Age is drawn mainly from the Red Book of Westmarch. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She was keeping up her music on account of the children, she said, because she and her husband both considered it a means of brightening the home and making it attractive. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t help herself thinking that my arrival was part of some settling of accounts, that Milton had been punished and that her punishment was just beginning. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

No one knew how to account for an existence like Buffo’s. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Why, every day, the black African heads of state should be receiving direct accounts of the latest developments in the American black man’s straggles—instead of the U.S. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The book takes into account many different perspectives on a child’s development rather than approaching it by focusing on only one subject. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

On account of these deaths, Kilanga’s gleeful children would live through another season. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It should be obvious that he was not right about this: no one, I trust, would want to read an account of slavery written by someone incapable of passing judgement. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Friday, she had to work straight through—a sixteen-hour shift—because the company was short-handed on account of an influenza epidemic. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two iron rings had been fastened to the wall; hanging nearby were a number of the whips, known as the cat-o’- nine-tails, and—according to one inmate account—a gag. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In cases where perpetrators of crimes against humanity elude justice in their time, history can often provide at least some final accounting, forensically documenting the murders and exposing the transgressors. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Work like hell all day every day, send them your money and get a little piece of paper back, Your account closed at 20.62. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her account book showed her six most recent sales, all shipments to the Underworld to decorate Hades and Persephone’s garden. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

His life had certainly cost him enough in pain to make the world’s judgment a thing of no account. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

While personal accounts of the fair were enthusiastic, Olmsted wrote, “nearly always incompletenesses are referred to, favoring the idea that much remains to be done, and that the show will be better later.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life, and he knows that that is impossible. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Like we said. I said we’d be gone overnight—said we was going to visit your sister in Fort Scott. On account of she was holding money for you. Fifteen hundred dollars.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry was diligently avoiding contact with any of them; he was sure that, sooner or later, he would be asked again to account for Dumbledore’s last excursion from Hogwarts. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Sir Bors came from the northern hole to parley with the King and with the Constable—a long, indistinct argument or explanation which the people could not catch on account of the wind. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The planets themselves moved on smaller circles attached to their respective spheres in order to account for their rather complicated observed paths in the sky. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quite apart from murder by night on his own account, he may put any enemy that is about on our track.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Most psychologists believe that nature — genetics — accounts for about half of the reason why we tend to act the way we do. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s no accounting for some people. You’re lucky to get it back. Is it all right?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

As we entered, the latter eyed me suspiciously on account of my school uniform: long grey flannels, white shirt, shiny black shoes, a blue-and-gold blazer with a matching tie. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most Americans only come to “know” about the people cycling in and out of prisons through fictional police dramas, music videos, gangsta rap, and “true” accounts of ghetto experience on the evening news. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

If they did exist, he wanted to know whether the entire Holocaust story was blown out of proportion, and the account of millions being exterminated a myth. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent called him that evening, and Obinze was mildly surprised, because Vincent had called him only once, months ago, when he changed his bank and wanted to give him the new account number. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Better to have been shot in Baltimore, where there was the justice of the streets and someone might call the killer to account. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He seems younger, though, on account of being so green. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever it is, it seems to be driving an expansion that no one can altogether account for. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I know I’m an independent person, and I don’t feel I need to account to you for my actions. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The presence of the county jail supplies the first quality, while the so- called Sheriff’s Residence, a pleasant apartment separated from the jail proper by steel doors and a short corridor, accounts for the second. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Essentially the same processes accounted for the replacement of Aboriginal Australian languages by English, and of subequatorial Africa’s original Pygmy and Khoisan languages by Bantu languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had expected the room to smell of death, but on account of Mrs Mortimer - or else her apron - the room was dominated by the smell of roasting. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Over the course of the past six months she’d learned nearly all of Bebe’s life story, and it was because of this that Lexie’s account of the party had caught her attention. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I haven't heard about this before, but I'm thinking that I have a lot of accounts with people at this point. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, I’m not s’posed to drive on account of they yanked my license. What else?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

From all accounts, the slave master’s preoccupation with Cora and her escape only deepened over time. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When she found out that Speed and Wyche had started a foundation and bank account in her mother’s name, Deborah was furious. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I am told by Biddy, that air the writing,” said Joe, repeating the legal turn as if it did him infinite good, “‘account of him the said Matthew.’ Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why Darwin, in his great book On the Origin of Species, didn’t start with an account of natural selection. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

At first Tessie had given an honest accounting of her days. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

No maester would ever write down an account for one of the Reader’s beloved books. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Similarly, Ptolemy had demonstrated that no homocentric planetary system could account for the observed phenomena, but philosophers were still trying to produce such a system well into the sixteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I work out my location when I'm parked, and account for it in the next day's travel. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each day bulked, a wrong guess, a thing Ralph had failed to take into account. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rough-hewn,” some might have said, or even “thuggish” on account of his broken nose, which made a sharp angle in profile, and from the front skewed distinctly to the left. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I have gone off into that state, hours and hours, on account of Matthew’s strange and inexplicable conduct, and nobody has thanked me.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Edward was never surrounded by crowds of curious by-standers eager for his firsthand account. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In their circle, it was held to be no disgrace to import goods illegally, but rather sharp practice was accounted a sign of canny business acumen. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I notice he’s avoiding looking at Tonni, on account of her being about ready to commit murder with her eyeballs and all. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

My father would read the newspaper accounts of these activities, and I could see the anguish in his eyes. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Resolved not to waste further time on account of this childish affair, I contemplated departure via the french windows. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed these accounts were factual and he was always the first to tell them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many did not eat meat for weeks on account of the death smell that poisoned the air. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I get to Addie's house, I tell her to shush before she even gets five words out, on account of having to write some stuff down. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I had a few lines on parish business from Mr. Weston this morning, and at the end of them he gave me a brief account of what had happened.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

It seemed that every tree in it was accounted for, and that not one grain of sawdust from our mill went unused. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

While I wait for him, I will finish my account of what happened to me in this valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“However, recent events must be taken into account.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She pulled out Dill’s computer, went to YouTube, and set up an account for him. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

There was old Mr. Edward Caruthers, who still worked on accounts in the study, his pursuit of profit continuing even after the heart attack that took his life. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Their own accounts speak of the multiplying of Men in the land, and of a shadow that fell on the forest, so that it became darkened and its new name was Mirkwood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It had probably been designed by a self-taught civil engineer, which may have accounted for the absence of all those expected molecules of water. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Pascal, learning of this last result, carried out similar experiments in tall buildings in Paris and, as quickly as possible, published an account of them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Whites comprised a mere 8 percent of people frisked by the NYPD, while African Americans accounted for 85 percent of all frisks. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Master Lockton will settle his aunt’s account at the end of the week,” I said. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have to wait until I’m eighteen on account of Mother. But do you think I’m good-looking?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No—no message—I’m here on my own account!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I was so glad we’d done an accounting section in math a couple of weeks ago or none of this would have made any sense to me. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

My account of Shawn’s fall is based on the story as it was told to me at the time. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baylor shook her head and continued with Miss Cissy's account. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The Azores were later rediscovered around 1427, but the event still seemed unimportant, and no reliable account survives. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Too much time would be wasted if I had to account to Nemur for everything I did. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

"Three hundred jars, you say? That still does not account for these totals. You are several thousand jars ahead of the best estimate you gave me when last we met." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while he spoke to his foreman on the telephone to go over the accounts, but these calls left him in a bad mood for several days afterward. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In comparison, the sorts of sights offered in such places as Africa and America, though undoubtedly very exciting, would, I am sure, strike the objective viewer as inferior on account of their unseemly demonstrativeness. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it is because I am weak at present, and perhaps because it was on Lucy’s account, that their devotion was manifested; for over and over again have I seen similar instances of woman’s kindness. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

When Oldenburg mischievously reported an exaggerated account of Hooke’s views to Newton, deliberately trying to stir up trouble, he succeeded better than he could have expected. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He devoted a full two months to revising Washington’s draft, amplifying Madison’s earlier account of the need to rise above party differences and rally behind the elected representatives of the national government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Among the number who could not be accounted for were both Williams and Octavian. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

You subpoenaed documents and took depositions and pored over court records until you had put together a detailed and precise accounting of each stage in the deadly quarrel. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Now he closed the accounts book in Sonny’s Shop and gave up on the column of numbers. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was my account! Mine! How dare you undercut my price!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

And then the account book proper, with debits and credits on facing pages. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My avatar was wearing a black T-shirt and blue jeans, one of the free default skins you could select when you created your account. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I was already on academic probation on account of not caring enough about the importance of gravy boats. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The storekeeper, a lean Mosotho man with greying hair, told us we could not reopen the account, for there was no man in our house to settle it on Fridays. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How touching! My, my! I notice that it’s always me you come to when in trouble. But I’ve never heard of anyone’s heart breaking on my account. Oh, no. Who cares anything about old Templeton?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

So I used my admin ID to create a new “test account,” then gave that account superuser access and full administrator privileges. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then I open my other account, and there’s another email from Nathan. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

And in any case, I have drifted considerably from the account I was giving of this evening's events. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I presented what is more or less the account current when Dobyns arrived in Peru. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Not long after dawn he had started on horseback for New York and Philadelphia with an account of the Tea Party. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His remains were placed in a waterproof bag and, according to one account, were buried locally. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A one-woman publicity machine, she sent out indignant press releases, as well as letters to the government demanding a public accounting. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

All taken into account, they were evenly matched. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The tablet looked more like a private notebook than the place where he kept his regular accounts. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

With or without registering, if you are under 18 years of age, you must be at least 13 years old and have your parent’s or guardian’s permission to create an account. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

My work account was rigged so that I couldn’t browse outside websites, but I’d hacked my visor to allow me to listen to music or stream movies off my hard drive while I took calls. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And we command you to provide necessaries for them as long as they shall be with you by our command, and the cost, etc., shall be accounted, etc. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joan took most of the match money, however, and traveled via train to Zurich, where she opened an account in Bobby’s name at the Union Bank of Switzerland. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I know times are tough. I’ve got the bank pushing on me to collect on accounts.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Just when she was trying to count up something or write in an account book. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Whatever accounted for the unnatural stasis that had kept her a child for fifteen years, it was beyond the reach of reason or persuasion. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But I’ve got over two thousand dollars in the bank, I said, as if my own account was the only one that mattered. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surgery and hospitalization account for six months of that year; the remainder he spent recuperating in the forest home, near Bellingham, of a young Indian logger and fisherman. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The literature of Everest is rife with accounts of hallucinatory experiences attributable to hypoxia and fatigue. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And the account number was saved on his computer. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But they don’t like me very much on account of this used to be their house. Now they all share a room in the servant’s quarters.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He put the National Insurance card on the table and was already writing his bank account number on a piece of paper. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Multiple eyewitness accounts of this race state that Seabiscuit trailed badly early, then rallied to win. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t know how to account for his strange doings but, to their credit, they were willing to let bygones be bygones. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was actually relieved to know that Aech hadn’t been deceiving me, at least not on that account. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

What else accounted for the high divorce rates among Nigerians in America and the low rates among Nigerians in Nigeria? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It comes out gruffer than I intend on account of my spanking new voice. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Her brother pays for her to be here, they told me, on account of her needing full-time care. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The shush order probably didn’t account for that. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

You’d think to hear her that there wasn’t but one supper in the world, and that was the one she had to keep back a few minutes on my account. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Monday they went to the bank and closed her account, and opened another somewhere else, just to be sure. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I came upstairs after dinner to write out my account of the crime for Sergeant Rojas. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably on account of the fact that Styx was dark as night and she was lighter than milk. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And so the okapi is now by scientific account a real animal. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

By all accounts she was a great beauty. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of all the deals that Aaron Giebel had made from his base of operations in Midland during the boom, the hardest part, by his own account, was figuring out which one was the worst. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cereal crops alone now account for more than half of the calories consumed by the world’s human populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

No now, he doesn't know I opened the account. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She had protested, but only mildly, the same limp no with which she greeted the frequent deposits to her bank account and the new Impala with the soft upholstery. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

By his own account, he became “a mental and emotional wreck” and spent most of the period crossing Maine weeping copiously. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

This, honestly, is all I can account for in the book. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kosi was active on Facebook, she put up photos and kept in touch with people, but he had deleted his account a while ago. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In my account, history did not set Mormons apart from the rest of the human family; it bound them to it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

An account to the Ring-bearer of so strange an event was required, I think. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the earliest account of her, the Iliad, she is a fierce and ruthless battle-goddess, but elsewhere she is warlike only to defend the State and the home from outside enemies. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now every time the pig is filled, you can go to the bank yourself and make a deposit. And every penny in the account will go to help pay for your college education.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

When asked to account for the cultural “backwardness” of Aboriginal Australian society, many white Australians have a simple answer: supposed deficiencies of the Aborigines themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Explore the manse and grounds as you like, but on no account stray beyond the walls. It is best that no man knows that you were here.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I enrolled in the summer session for accounting. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She had one hundred and five dollars in her savings account. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And sometimes his accounts were very dull and sometimes very exciting. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Master Lockton did not notice that his list of coconspirators was a little handworn; he was too busy visiting the mayor at his home in Flatbush and spending hours at his warehouse reviewing his accounts. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve earned it. The money is sitting in your account now.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I can’t let you go. Not yet. We have old accounts to settle, the three of us.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“My dear sir, upon no account in the world; my father can direct me.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Needing no more invitation than that, she launched into a minute-by- minute account of the previous night. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

My dad is an auditor for a big accounting firm. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Tommy and I talked about all this not so long ago, and his own account of how his troubles began confirmed what I was thinking that night. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Delirious with joy,” by the New York Times account, they screamed for Schmeling to end it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He has no head at all for math, so in addition to keeping the books at the store, I balance our accounts at home and pay our taxes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Bobby’s mother earned an online degree after her children got older and now works in accounting. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

No story proved this fact better than the account of what the heroes suffered who sailed in the ship Argo to find the Golden Fleece. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their next adventure was with the Cyclops Polyphemus, a full account of which is given in Part One, Chapter 4. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t about to have him blow himself to smithereens on account of it would clearly be the end for his poor old deranged mom. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It plays DVDs,” he said, “and if I had an e- mail account, I could check it on this, too.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

According to an account by Galen, it was Euergetes who was responsible for one of the most notorious acts of bait and switch in ancient history. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I told him I could set up an e-mail account for him if he wanted. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Chronicler accounted for a sizable, though more modest amount. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The account, with Turner’s running translation, had taken almost an hour. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I mean exactly how it works. That the amount of the check is deducted from the balance in the account? And that the money can run out?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

One of the most compelling accounts of the postemancipation period is The Strange Career of Jim Crow, written by C. Vann Woodward in 1955. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Who is Mr. Kirwin? Why am I to give an account of myself? Is not this a free country?” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

These new Indian hires had accounting backgrounds and were trained by Reuters, but they were paid standard local wages and vacation and health benefits. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The flattering portrait later appeared in the Washington Post, with an account of the interview. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

If there was anyone alive who could give you a truthful account of conditions in the early part of the century, it could only be a prole. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In many cases we have only fragmentary or secondhand accounts of what happened. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, many other people saw the star as well, and many fanciful accounts of its significance were circulated in 1573. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Everything that’s happened is unnatural—the fighting, the breeding—and all on account of Woundwort. If he wasn’t unnatural, who was?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab the receipt, memorizing how I have $2,076.27 left in my account as I tear up the slip. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I can guess what one is. You had an exciting day at school, by all accounts.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Today Zeitgeist, as the glue that holds period' styles together and accounts for their inner unity, is rarely invoked. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It used to be a local bank. It was bought out a few years ago. All the accounts were transferred over to Spirit of Independence Bank.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Just a couple of hours a day. If you could help me close out the accounts. Even a dummy can learn how to do that.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Some thirty universities were performing nuclear physics research on navy contracts, which in some cases accounted for 90 percent of their research budgets. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I watch him walking away, which takes forever on account of his sloth pace, and want to say something more to him, but I don’t know what. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“When the Red Guards were elected at my sister’s school, the class status of the candidates was taken into account. Shouldn’t we do the same?” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So if I buy a bar of gold worth £500,1 credit £500 to my current account, and I debit £500 to my list of assets. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have a job, I didn’t have my own bank account. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dubbed the nation’s most eligible bachelor, Vanderbilt eschewed the debauchery that would have tempted other men fresh out of their teens and into a bottomless bank account. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

By contrast, Lauritsen and his Caltech colleagues soberly devoted two full pages to a meticulous accounting of every step they had taken to validate the French findings on carbon and boron alone. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And now you have repudiated the character of Lopsang with your “tattle tale” accounts of him. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I immediately opened a savings account and a checking account, and bought myself a new suit. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they also have to take into account his pale-skinned wife. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only to Frodo did he show the account of his Journey that he was writing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She shopped there as little as possible on account of the markup. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

After reading his account of it I was prepared to meet a good specimen of manhood, but hardly the quiet, business-like gentleman who came here to-day. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

In the end I can never take any of them, on account of the companionship I would lose. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, sir, it seemed to me, taking everything into account, that we might find here a perfectly good solution. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

He gives a charming picture of Atalanta among the hunters which I have put into my account, but often, as in the description of the boar, he is so exaggerated, he verges on the ridiculous. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The final account came to more than three hundred pages. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She’d be one more sin of mine, to be chalked up to the account he’s keeping in his head. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Complicating matters, the FBI had just discovered that the hundred-dollar bills found in the burglars’ pockets had all been withdrawn from a bank account belonging to the Committee to Reelect the President. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In my account I have followed the stories given by the two tragic poets and by Theocritus, rather than Pindar, one of the most difficult of poets to translate or even to paraphrase. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think she has read too many accounts of lost children in the newspapers. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A faint ding rings out, alerting me that I’ve just downloaded something into my account. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They tore up the new Cordimas kids from Greece just on account of having peculiar names. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

When she asked him the way the milkman was friendly enough and gave a long indistinct account of the route. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I’m guessing this generosity came on account of me saving his wife and all. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I tell him then about Mr. Kellerman's mom dying and he tells me he heard, on account of it being a small town and news travels fast. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped I hadn’t offended either of them, that they would know how grateful I was for the sacrifices they were making on my account. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It provides an abstract account of lines in space, travelling from the object, through the picture plane, to the eye, and an account of how these lines appear on the picture plane itself. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

If this is to be a full and honest account of my life and deeds, I feel I should mention that my reasons for inviting Ben into our troupe were not entirely altruistic. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I wonder if it’s possible that someone else has taken over Nathan’s account. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I’m not prudish, Kitty, and yet every time they give a blow-by-blow account of their trips to the bathroom, which they often do, my whole body rises in revolt. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She'd notice, for example, that a bookstore in London had an overdue account of seventeen dollars. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The approach to Earth of Hailey’s Comet in the year 66 is the probable explanation of the account by Josephus of a sword that hung over Jerusalem for a whole year. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama, who was determined that I should never be hungry, arranged with the grocer to give me food if I was hungry and to put it on her account. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons she sat beneath a canvas umbrella with a pencil between her fingers, her accounts laid out on a cedar crate before her, one palm laid against her forehead. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was when he was listening to a confused account of the missionary aims of the Swedish lady that one of the Wagon Lit conductors came into the car and stood at his elbow. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gives us two accounts of the development of his thinking, one at the beginning of the Little Commentary and the other at the beginning of On the Revolutions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Yo, don’t dig yourself in deeper on account of me. I can take care of myself.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I learned a lot—like when you have a checking account, your money is separate from all the other money in the bank. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

We know from a mid-seventeenth-century account of an “Embassy from the East India Company of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, to the Grand Tartar, Cham, Emperor of China.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can we account for the fact that Microsoft has been so successful recently, while IBM, which was formerly successful, fell behind but then drastically changed its organization and improved its success? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But even in Los Angeles, a city notorious for bad policing, crime fell at about the same rate as it did in New York once the growth in New York’s police force is accounted for. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

If the Foster clan doesn’t even have a hundred smackers sitting around a crummy Mellon Bank account, not even E.T.: Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was on Snowdrop’s advice, too, that Woundwort at length ordered that the warren was not to extend further, on account of the risk of detection and the weakening of central control. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As to this case, if you will have scratches, we say that, for anything we know, you may have accounted for them, assuming for the sake of argument that you have not invented them?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was, by all accounts, a kindly man who gained the esteem of everyone who met him. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were hundreds of accounts of ghosts wandering the canyon at night. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Anyway, they fell in love right away, on account of they're both so nuts about Charles Dickens and all, and he helps her run her publishing business. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The doctor’s examination gave her a scare, but not on account of the questions. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I have to take these things into account. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The United States accounted for 125 of these; the Russians, 44; and Great Britain, 21. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He then gave a full account of their journey from the time when they left Hobbiton. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Whatever accounted for the results of his experiments, it wasn’t mystical, and neither was mesarthium itself, and neither was spirit. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Tyler was told the same story; in fact, many of the details in this account come from his memory. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Theogony is an account of the creation of the universe and the generations of the gods, and it is very important for mythology. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some religious people were furious that it ignored the biblical account of creation and man’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This visible evidence of political centralization that the kofun provide reinforces the accounts of Kofun era Japanese emperors written down much later in Japanese and Korean chronicles. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But he did say much on his own account. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She tried to fill in its details from stories, sifting through the accounts of slaves who had seen it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

ANGELA: I’m relaying it real time to my cloud account anyway! Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

These are some of the accounts they brought back: Early in the morning when everyone was asleep in the tent, it was blown up into the air, together with the occupants. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to his account, the strangest thing was that there were so many people around him, moving so urgently, handling his body with such excitement, while all his awareness was of quietude. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scrubby vineyards and the crumbling stones become things of no account, for if I wish I can give rein to my imagination, and pick foxgloves and pale campions from a wet, streaking hedge. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She put the letter in the account book and closed the cover. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The 2000 census revealed that one-third of Clarkston’s population was foreign-born, though almost everyone suspected the number was higher because census estimates did not account for large numbers of refugees and immigrants living together. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

So my uncle started a bank account to help fund our gatherings and pay for air travel for those of us who no longer lived near the Bay Area. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

So expensive, in fact, that Max had to check his bank balance on his phone while they stood in line, just to make sure that he had enough in his account. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Since the Troubled Times, all roads bad been cleared of undergrowth for the distance of a bowshot an either side—but this glade, on account of peculiarities in the terrain, had been overlooked. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The manager, a man Mrs. Diamant had known since he was in diapers, said that the Diamants no longer had an account there. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Can we set up two separate accounts?” his mom asked. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when we tried to feed Old Yeller some of the turkey, on account of his saving us from losing it, he wouldn’t eat. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Electric company. The account is under Dr. Burgess’s name, and we need to switch it over. They want a deposit.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Kreisler had called her, by her own account, “the greatest female violinist I have heard.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Grandpa wouldn’t of lived with Aunt Loma, of course, on account of her cats. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Rabbinic tradition compelled him to accept the biblical account of the universe’s creation from the void. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I was writing an account of his life and I know him as well, perhaps, as anybody,” I told him. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, one would have expected there to be a range of alternative theories proposed to account for the new evidence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“The Night Bazaar has had to adapt, change form, and account for things like families moving to new countries and imaginations evolving,” explained Boo. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

One honest employer confirmed the truth in these worries: blacks were hired “solely on account of the shortage of labor....As soon as the situation clears itself no more colored help will be employed.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t suppose I could have some spinach on account,” he said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“By all accounts,” one says, his voice deafening in the arena, “we should see the Demon Brigade slaughter the Phoenix Riders, currently the lowest-ranking team in the championships.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Purely on account of being in mourning, my family missed most of the July the Fourth parade. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Also correct is that I head to college in one more year. You know the tortoise and the hare? I’m the tortoise, and the racetracks my bank account. I’ve been saving for years.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Normally she wants a full account of his adventures, but today they sit silently, watching the passers-by. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Why, these Philadelphia citizens probably decided, smudge the city’s reputation even further—and possibly drive away future business—with detailed written accounts of looting and violence? An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Various traditions provide different accounts of his background, but most say that Deganawidah was not a member of the Five Nations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Of course I could whomp up a medium storm or a small earthquake in good taste and proper proportion, but in this account I have clung tenaciously, perhaps foolishly, to the truth. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began once more to know myself; and when Mr. St. John demanded an account—which at present I was far too weak to render—I said after a brief pause— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I guess there ain’t no accounting for what folks see in their own mirrors. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

On each continent, animal and plant domestication was concentrated in a few especially favorable homelands accounting for only a small fraction of the continent’s total area. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But you can just set up a new email account, you know. They’re free. I did one for my grandmother.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

She logged into her Book Scavenger account and did a user search for Raven. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A lot of his accounting clients were farmers too. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

His father had read the account of the rally in the Yiddish press. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

True, generous feeling is made small account of by some, but here were two natures rendered, the one intolerably acrid, the other despicably savourless for the want of it. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

And at this point Wittgensteinian history of science places itself directly at odds with Galileo’s own account of what he is actually doing, and history of science is in a direct conflict with science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

If, on the other hand, no such difference in human neurobiology exists to account for continental differences in technological development, what does account for them? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But he looked old now; the young face had changed more than could be accounted for by the new lines in his face or the beard. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

There had been its original purchase by an American millionaire who was crazy about yachting—and an account of the luxurious modern house he had built on this little island off the Devon coast. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Two hours she devoted to her diary; two to working by herself in the kitchen-garden; and one to the regulation of her accounts. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

What is the Ramayana but the account of one long, bad day for Rama? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the Indian accounting firms even go about marketing themselves to American firms through teleconferencing and skip the travel. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Feast Day of Santa Lucia Dear Little Book, Tonight, we will have the candle lighting and all our eyes will be blessed on account of Santa Lucia. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Assumption under any Modification will I fear be Considered as a Bitter pill in this State,” ran one typical account, and “Arguments of Accommodation will have but little Avail.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

One of the wire transfers in Puglisi’s account traced back to The New Jersey Clarion. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I look at his rumpled sheets and try to make out a human form, but there isn’t enough bulk to account for him. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It could even account for the arrow of time that we observe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

By his own accounting, around fifteen hundred lashings were inflicted per month, not including those he meted out himself. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The newspaper accounts were hard for both her and Jethro to understand; they were stories of chaotic confusion, of bitter fighting and terrible disaster. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Werfel could not believe that, on top of everything else, he now had to be threatened by one of Tenebrion’s most powerful noble families on account of Spurge’s bad behavior. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She did not truly believe the accounts of untethered mayhem, but she knew that some murders would have occurred. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He will be Jewish, of course, and so, locked out of the old-line downtown law firms on account of his “antecedents.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Kate sat at the head of the table with an account book open before her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On a congressman’s yearly salary of $7,500, Representative John Langley, in a three-year period, deposited $115,000 in his bank account. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He and the other students watched eagerly as accounts of one gruesome murder after another passed over the tiny VCR screen, accompanied by the hushed melodrama of Geraldo Rivera. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

By some accounts, he had actually instructed Howard to make a few protests before ultimately agreeing to it so that no one would suspect his game plan. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boss was afraid to take in new accounts no matter how innocent they seemed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many accounts said that Claudette was pregnant at the time she was arrested. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Or was it some member of the company—Mr. Heminges, perhaps, seeking a moment of solitude in which to balance his accounts? The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Here is an account of his final moments,” he says, and, turning toward the end of the book, he reads: ‘“His feet were icy. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Halloween party would, by all accounts, last until three fifteen a.m., and end with a number of kids passed out on the Perrys’ Oriental living room carpet. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Gallien described several pieces of equipment not mentioned in the newspaper account that matched gear found with the body. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harper, who worked in the B-block yard, was the main victim by most accounts, but other versions of the incident made him out to be a hapless error-maker. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

No girls are allowed to wear suits on account of the convicts. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is sure these men have come on account of that gun story she told when she was only five and before anyone told her guns were illegal. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

In his black socks, striped pajamas, and without his usual glasses, he looks like a weary businessman, fed up with the account managers in the tristate region. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Travelers to the village were rare, but occasionally a peddler would come through the village, selling "penny dreadful" accounts of grisly murders, fateful encounters, dire doings and remarkable escapes. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

And if I’m really lucky, Mrs. van D. calls me to account five minutes later and lays down the law as well! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

One can account for just so much of life, and then no more. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing but realism existed then; you have to take that into account.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

A prince didn't carry money, for he had no use for it, and Jemmy's accounts were kept on the books. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

This account Bilbo set down in his memoirs, and he seems never to have altered it himself, not even after the Council of Elrond. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Kansas City Star printed a lengthy account of the Clutter funeral, but the edition containing the article was two days old before Perry, lying abed in a hotel room, got around to reading it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent most of his time in the farmhouse, squaring the farm’s accounts. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Most of us couldn’t like the Mexican girl on account of Miranda not liking her, which made it downright dangerous, socially speaking. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Homicide convictions account for a tiny fraction of the growth in the prison population. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He had handled the Columbia account for twenty years and didn’t like the idea of losing even a small part of the business to a competitor. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora read the accounts of slaves who had been born in chains and learned their letters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I cannot remember to what extent I analysed this feeling at the time, but today, looking back on it, it does not seem so difficult to account for. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the item passes from an account into the game and is used, there’s a split second when it is vulnerable. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One: Its nondescript shrubs were a favorite resting place for serpaise in the heat of the day, which accounted for its nickname, “snake-shade.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I have preferred the account of Apollodorus, who wrote in the first or second century A.D. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I wasn’t going to let that no account city boy bury me alive. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

After all, every known written account of the Inka was set down after the conquest, a century or more after Pachakuti's rise. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The air inside the packing plant was several degrees cooler than outside, on account of the brick walls, but it reeked of the same slaughter. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I think sloth has already been accounted for, and gluttony is coming up next.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He showed me his “inmate accounts” statement—on which in-mates keep track of how much they can spend in the commissary—and told me he bet I’d never seen one like this. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when I logged in to my account, I had one new e-mail from late last night. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Could it be on account of the penguins, sir?” asked Janie, who had been listening very hard. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Far as I know, this is the first time in the history of Mississippi that white men are gonna be made to account for what they done to a black man.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“They must have given her too much. She’s very small; they probably didn’t take her height and weight into account.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It can open a bank account and own property. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He set up a trust account for Nick, and the bank manager said he could make arrangements with Mr. Lawrence so any other money would be deposited automatically. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The safety-deposit box contained information for ten offshore bank accounts. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

By all accounts, James was a bright boy, but socially inept. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But he did start recording every pound he spent in a pocket account book and would continue that practice for the rest of his life. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wizarding history often skates over what the wizards have done to other magical races, but there’s no account that I know of that says Gryffindor stole the sword.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

By now, my hack has worked its way into the Demons’ accounts. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“That is good logic,” he said, “so far as it goes. But how do you—how can you—account for it not being there?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

In effect, if Adams had a different story to tell, if he saw a different pattern in the historical swirl they had both lived through, he should write out his account and let posterity judge. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He had to stop and add the meat to Tony’s account. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The money didn't mean anything to Ishtar—I doubted it would make a dent in her account—but make a deal with a god? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

With trembling fingers, I scroll through Zero’s personal account. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I forbid you to take another thing out of this house! Starting tomorrow, you’ll have your own bank account, for pin money,” he said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, they account for more than a third of all Everest fatalities. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

One of them, a lady wearing a hot-pink shirt, shares that she just got her tax return and is treating herself to a night out before she puts the rest into her savings account. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

It was fine if the exact account of creation in Genesis wasn’t exactly true. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paid all the seasonal workers and settled all the accounts. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

A couple of times, I’ve dug it up, not on account of vanity, but to make sure I am still here, I haven’t disappeared. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a war going to be fought, by all accounts, the greatest war ever known.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dell wanted to go for guardianship too, but he's pretty much broke—even though I recently put his accounts on autopay to help straighten out some of his finances—so he doesn't qualify. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Whether public or private, accounting is a peculiar blend of facts and arbitrary procedures which usually require decoding. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to accounts, enemy fighters now controlled the middle section of New Jersey. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Indeed, how else are we to account for their rise? History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I blame myself every time for not having paid enough attention to accounts of executions. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

HARRY: If it matters to you,you, the Sorting Hat will take your feelings into account. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

From there, I set up my hack to penetrate each of the accounts of the other teams. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And we heard a priest say that it was a mortal sin to read newspaper accounts of a Billy Graham sermon. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her handwriting was impeccable—small, soft, and elegant numbers filled the pages of her account book. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We repeated this process until we were certain that, numerically at least, all the animals with which the doctors were experimenting were accounted for. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

While it’s working, I worm my way into each of my teammates’ accounts. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The English Exchequer used to keep accounts on a variant of the tally stick until 1826. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Despite its passing resemblance to the lobster, it should on no account be eaten, as its flesh is unfit for human consumption and will result in a high fever and an unsightly greenish rash. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emma agreed to it, and with a blush of sensibility on Harriet’s account, which she could not give any sincere explanation of. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

So nervous that I just set up a separate e-mail account, since Mom knows my password and checks my regular e-mail every once in a while. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They have sent me as their emissary, because we cannot begin the Forum until all are present and accounted for. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel didn’t understand how anyone could shoot an arrow accurately from this high up, accounting for the wind and the glare of the sun off the water. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He signed the account book and took the eyeglasses. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must have been a bitter disappointment for Gene Johnson, so disheartening that he was never able to bring himself to publish an account of the expedition and its findings. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not need to defend her actions in the woods that night; no one had the right to call her to account. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

About a week subsequently to the incidents above narrated, Miss Temple, who had written to Mr. Lloyd, received his answer: it appeared that what he said went to corroborate my account. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Some sense of the strength of feeling can be gained by glancing through the chapter titles of Martin J. S. Rudwick’s excellent and somber account of the issue, The Great Devonian Controversy. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t want her to get the account. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

That would account for what the animal did just now. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will on no account keep eating after everyone else has stopped. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even assuming this account is exaggerated by a factor of two, what was left would still have been bigger than anything Alexander commanded against Persia. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

His manner was unexpectedly civil from all accounts, absent his standard sardonic remarks. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Of all the terrible deeds laid to his account the worst was done in Thebes, his mother’s city. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

From then on, the story turns into little more than an account of men slaughtering each other. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am of the opinion that we can accept Hardman’s account of himself.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all had a glass while Arnold explained how he wanted to set up my account with Mom and Dad, and Grandma asked if Arnold could find her a boxer to sponsor too. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

"Just between ourselves, Blore, and taking into account that we'll probably both be a couple of stiffs before another day is out, you did indulge in that spot of perjury, I suppose?" And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I turn it on, log onto my account, and write an email to Sandy at CSA asking if we can meet before school on Wednesday, the first day back after break. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The day of the master’s departure, I roused myself extra early on account of I feared Madam might do the same. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her high bun looks like a split peach on account of the color. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Questions from South Korean bank tellers, whom they meet on field trips to open bank accounts, often terrify defectors. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Not making the least account of “the one with the delicate face,” he returned, “Bentley Drummle is his name, is it? I like the look of that fellow.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Laura Friendly had set up a Freebie account for anything the dog needed, from vet appointments to food to chew toys. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Shall I not put it on Osh’s account, as usual?” he said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

European newspapers, letters from earlier immigrants, and advertisements from steamship companies were filled with accounts of tables groaning with food in a country where everyone could get rich. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

You pick the one you want, punch in the number, then punch in your own number so your account will be debited, and punch in the number of times you want the prayer repeated. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The expression on his face when he’d said Don’t dig yourself in deeper on account of me. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But mostly I heard about them, and when I did, I quizzed people until I’d got a more or less full account. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In less than thirty years, the U.S. penal population exploded from around 300,000 to more than 2 million, with drug convictions accounting for the majority of the increase. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Homer maintained the business accounts and recorded Ridgeway’s stories in a small notebook he kept in his coat pocket. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

This account of some species of republic among the Egba was unwelcome as gall; providing the bitterness of doubt when I longed for the balm of reassurance. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

This ward favored the latter, which accounted for some of the shouts. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The theatrical season was running out and actor accounts fell off. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m tired of running and having my face scratched and my robe tom, all on account of those stupid warriors.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

But he makes everybody keep mum about what he finds there on account he wants et tae be this greet surprise at the wedding.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I found a reddit account that commented on Butler basketball and so probably belonged to Davis, but that, too, had been silent since Pickett Sr.’s disappearance. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Aureliano needs well-kept accounts so that he can decide things when he comes back.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

If I borrow £500, then £500 is a debit to my current account, and a credit to my list of liabilities. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I figured he meant he wasn’t set up for shipping, so I offered him my FedEx account number. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In more than a dozen states, student performance on standardized tests accounts for 50 percent of a teacher’s rating. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The rod in the middle helps, on account of we hang our belongings and dry towels there, and it kind of divides the room in two. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom told him she didn’t want him to sever his ties with the club on my account, but he said he didn’t care. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The extra gravitational attraction of such a large number of black holes could explain why our galaxy rotates at the rate it does: the mass of the visible stars is insufficient to account for this. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, no eyewitness accounts exist of the devastation—none of the peoples in the Southeast had any form of writing known today. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The server was caught and she may have ratted out Stu, at least enough to cast some suspicion on him, thus accounting for his pissy behavior. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because you’re not losing weight on account of HIV, I bet. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

"We can lose all of Flea Bottom if we must, but on no account must the fire reach the Guildhall of the Alchemists, is that understood? Clegane, you'll go with him." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And second, if Hamilton did fire at Burr, how does one account for the severed branch so high above and off to the side of Burr’s position? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Maybe not a huge bank account, vintage Jordans, a rented Bugatti, and dinosaur fossils. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I got to forward their mail, check their expense accounts, and do word counts on their manuscripts. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

On account of how I’m moving up in the world. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyler’s account and scores of others even more sinister, particularly those by Jewish emigrants from Germany, fell almost entirely on deaf ears in America that fall. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I have reached the point in this account where, unavoidably, I am going to have to talk about myself before Ormaie. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In fact, he had never seen Little Tilly but he got this idea that he had to make something up to her on account of her brother Gussie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after the accident, Stephanie, the older of the girls, had begun to play World ofWarcraft, using her father’s account and his computer and desk, peering into his hefty NEC monitor. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her brother pays for her to be here, they told me, on account of her needing full-time care. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But there really is wisdom down here, and that wisdom accounts for much of the good in my life. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

On account of the boys were pretty irate. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small family business can survive and flourish without a board of directors, a CEO or an accounting department. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was close to collapse himself and scarcely able to give the Council any account of the disaster. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For her to say that just showed how much she was willing to take into account the changing times. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And my life down here accounts for you. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

To read Dr. Seward’s account of poor Lucy’s death, and what followed, is enough to dry up the springs of pity in one’s heart. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Soon as I worked up a good feeling on her account, she’d do something ignorant and start in to telling me how to clean and do. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half as quick as they’ll get a wire to you saying Your account closed out. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

This, my colleague, is fact, true and empirical; yet Mr. Gitney saw fit to obscure it in his account. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It was on account of the music,” he said. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

There’s an uncertainty to her voice that I don’t expect and can’t account for. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

On this night against the Abilene Eagles, he gained forty-six yards on ten carries, and his return to action earned a single paragraph at the tail end of the Odessa American account of the game. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A very simple numerical principle that’s sometimes of use in accounting for the certainty of a particular kind of coincidence is illustrated by the mailman who has twenty-one letters to distribute among twenty mailboxes. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all these cases the children were too young to give any properly intelligible account of themselves, but the consensus of their excuses is that they had been with a “bloofer lady.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

They creaked, when Marian had creaked three times to account for Kay and Wart as well as for herself, one hundred times. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

His account is vague, but one imagines that *These preposterous tales may actually be true; other amazing Smith stories certainly are. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Cem got his nickname because everyone said he should already be in the cemetery, on account of the dangerous work he did. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

You have to take into account that Aunt Loma was just eighteen when Miss Love hit town, and the jealous type. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He will never speak his sisters’ language, account for his movements like a cow with a dull bell. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using an exploit left by one of the programmers, I was now able to create a bogus admin account. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He was a heavy breather on account of his asthma, which was why he didn’t fight in the war even though he had a military flattop haircut that looked like an airport for paper airplanes. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Unlike them, I had no one to whom I needed give account. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The various accounts that survive, though sketchy, broadly agree that Corax was the first person to set down precepts for the art of persuasion. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Unless I found a way to start putting some money back in the account, I would be broke in a year. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There were four phones attached to the account. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

All we know is from fragments, chiefly on ethics, and secondhand accounts. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before the start of this service, I was informed that, despite a credible eyewitness account, the police department has no intentions of arresting the officer who murdered this young man.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

With one piece of paper her account had bulged like a cow about to freshen. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The man is, in any event, by all accounts a fool: too fantastical of temperament and childish of observation to merit trust; but too trusting to merit confidence. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"By what? He's handsome, good education, lovely parents. He works in his father's accounting firm." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I turned back to my accounts, saying: 'Merely condensation, I believe, Miss Kenton.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was an odd feeling and perhaps accounts for why I delayed my departure so long, wandering around the house many times over, checking one last time that all was in order. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It is Mina Murray that I came to see that was friend of that poor dear child Lucy Westenra. Madam Mina, it is on account of the dead I come.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He transfers the money in his bank account over to hers, and they have pale green checks with both their names printed in the corner. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Newspapers carry a stream of accounts of people injured or killed during the trek north. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Valentine himself was in Chicago meeting with the banks, his two sons in tow now that they were old enough to help with the farm’s accounts. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The Army saddled him with writing an official account of their wartime code and cipher operations—“all the histories and data and things—the final say.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The one has plenty of money, the other twenty bucks, so Mom cuts Lance a check from the empty account? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Colin was half paying attention to the game while scribbling graphs, trying to make the Theorem account for the fact that Lindsey Lee Wells was, quite clearly, still his girlfriend. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

It was a true account of the death before an American firing squad of Private Eddie D. Slovik, 36896415, the only American soldier to be shot for cowardice since the Civil War. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used to arrive late to their accounting class with singular excuses—a cow’s lack of appetite, the difficult birth of two foals. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here is her account of “subject #18”: A Russian tailor artisan comes to America, takes to the needle trade, works in a sweat shop for a small salary. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

My AIM account logged in automatically, and my short list of buddies were all offline. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They staked out the doll shop, and they examined Dickinson’s bank account and safe-deposit box. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Nothing that we know for sure about human behavior is likely to account for what ants do, and we ought to stay clear of it; this is the business of entomologists. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was all the account I got from Mrs. Fairfax of her employer and mine. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

In France, Mersenne received a rather garbled account of Torricelli’s experiment and tried unsuccessfully to reproduce it, but he lacked the right sort of glass tube. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

What account would we give of our stewardship of the planet Earth? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take a deep breath in the hall, and then, glancing down again at the sides, blurry on account of my rapid-fire hand shuddering, make out the older brother’s last line of the script page. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

That seating chart accounts for all the rational numbers—it assigns each of them a seat—so we can count them off one by one, in order, based on their seat number. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In this account of the creation the gods seemed bent on experimenting with the various metals, and, oddly enough, proceeding downward from the excellent to the good to the worse and so on. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crucial ingredient in the Hamiltonian account was that Burr fired first. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“With not one but two firsthand accounts of battling it!” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

His response was a lecture attacking Aristotle’s account of falling bodies, the weakest point in his physics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Baron d’Arce was an example, despite his noble title; as the passage he italicized suggests, his account highlighted Indian freedoms as an incitement toward rebellion. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

One government study estimated that before 1925 guardians had pilfered at least $8 million directly from the restricted accounts of their Osage wards. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“You remember that I had a cash-flow problem then and instead of paying you cash I started an account for you under my own name because you’re too young to have an account.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

But the money was safely in her account. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There is still another account of the creation of mankind. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the accounts of old cricket matches are inclined to be boring for those who did not actually play in them, so we must leave it unreported. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s for Chase Farnsworth. He’s paying top dollar. Thirty bucks, on account of the fast turnaround.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I think this is on account of the baby. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise sat between her brother and Henry, who had listened soberly to her account of Mr. Tuffett’s state of mind. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Bursting into her own apartment in triumph, Shirley found her mother still working on the accounts for the Señora and her father mixing paint. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’m missing the “I Love Lucy” show on account of her, so I stand up to go. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Companies installed systems piecemeal or found that one computer-software system was good for the accounting department and another system was best for inventory management and a third was best for e-mail. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The brief but powerful text read, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Alvarez wondered what it was about a thin lamina of clay, barely a quarter of an inch thick, that could account for such a dramatic moment in Earth’s history. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He keeps refreshing the account, over and over. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Get on the phone to Brown Thomas. The platinum set number. Reopen my account. Tell Hélène I want a Yuletide makeover. The works.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

How long it held the stage we do not know, but the next account we have, centuries later, written by Aeschylus about 450 B.C., is very different. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a little money in her account, enough to keep her modestly for a year or so. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I load up the new email account, with the intention of writing Rhiannon back. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Around ten o’clock, after everyone else has gone to bed and Kate still isn’t home, I turn on the computer again and check my Facebook account. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then she set up an account for herself at a bank in Miami and transferred the money there. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigwig realized that he had stumbled, quite unexpectedly, upon what he needed most of all: a strong, sensible friend who would think on her own account and help to bear his burden. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The year of their happiness ended with Arthur's return—and almost immediately collapsed in ruin, but not on account of the King. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sixteen hens were a lot of chickens to account for. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“So, next: I’m going to pair you guys up. I don’t want you to pair with people you’re rooming with, but if you indicated a preference on your application, I’ve taken that into account.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

This story, so like the Renaissance idea of the classical—fantastic, delicately decorated, bright-colored—is taken entirely from a poem of the third-century Alexandrian poet Moschus, by far the best account of it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She soon possessed a thick file of nightmare accounts. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Here is her last diary entry: Dear Diary, To my parents I leave the contents of my bank account, $5.47. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was sure they had believed her account of me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Dad really wants to quit his job and find a new accounting firm or maybe even start his own—he’s a CPA—but he can’t because we get our health insurance through his work. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Apart from £28 in my Trustees Saving Bank account, all the money I had left in the world was the two pounds Dad'd given me. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe I would have found some accounts of escapes in them. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The Campbell boy didn’t like me on account of the fact I didn’t treat John regular—orphan defending orphan, I guess. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

He’d kiss the top of my head and say, “I don’t have a lot of digits in my bank account, but I’m a wealthy man indeed.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

So far, with the help of Jerome, she had managed to extract nearly three million dollars from Kaira’s trust account. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

‘But we call it lembas or waybread, and it is more strengthening than any food made by Men, and it is more pleasant than cram, by all accounts.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was puzzled about the Lancelot affair, and interested in it on account of his grandson Galahad. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom says Jude acts the way she does now on account of hormones, but I know it’s on account of her hating me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I used to have all the same color, and Ashley said I was wearing the same thing every day, so the different colors are for Ashley’s mental accounts. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

July 14—It was a bad day to go out to Warren—gray and drizzly—and that may account for the depression that grips me when I think about it. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The events following were hazy in her mind on account of the unaccustomed hypodermic. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you can believe this, Jorge has been forcing our son to study accounting. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I fear, Octavian, you often do not account for self-interest. ’Tis only self-love and self-interest which actuates animals.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Her entries consisted of artistic manifestos, trivial complaints, character sketches and simple accounts of her day which increasingly shaded off into fantasy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Zannikos confirms part of the account but says the firing had nothing to do with the scuffle or the ensuing dispute. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It could simply be that a meaningless whim had suddenly overtaken me at that moment—but that is hardly a convincing way to account for such distinctly odd behaviour. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He has closed the account most accurately, and to-day begun a new record. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Later, returning home, he regaled Blanca with accounts of the vulgarity of these stale, out-of-date families, whose daughters were still chaperoned and whose gentlemen wore scapulars. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked to get home right after market so that we could unload the truck and straighten out the accounts. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jethro had read the account of Pea Ridge only days before. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was her turn to give an account of recent months, it was impossible not to be influenced by Leon’s tone, though her version of it came through, helplessly, as mockery. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was, by all accounts, terrible at the job. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Shortly thereafter, he donated the balance of his bank account to OXFAM, loaded up his car, and vanished from their lives. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That would be awesome, even if their parents were making them put all their earnings into college savings accounts. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

When my car gets a flat tire, I’m overwhelmed by the realization that my bank account is rapidly depleting. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

More surprisingly perhaps, there are no facts in Robert Boyle’s New Experiments of 1660, his first account of the air-pump experiments, only phenomena. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Later accounts by Oppenheimer, Chevalier, and Eltenton leave no doubt that Oppenheimer instantly and heatedly turned away the offer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The Klan Unmasked, Kennedy’s memoir of his exploits “inside” the Klan, is in fact more of a novelization than a straight nonfiction account. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In the case of modern history, scholars cannot avoid taking into account non-material factors such as ideology and culture. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lily came in from work and listened quietly to the rest of Mrs. Baylor’s secondhand account. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

They congratulated him on being able to account for every penny of the money earned through sales and expended for their needs. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your own savings account at the Brooklyn National Bank. Open it.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“None of us can. On account of the Recruiters. We re bush Indians for real now.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I had read the accounts of his two appearances in Madrid in the bull-fight papers, so I was all right. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

It’s true—I stream my plays live, when I’m actually linked in under my public Warcross account. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It had become, in a very real way, a wealthy home, even though Morrie’s bank account was rapidly depleting. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When those behind bars are taken into account, America’s institutions continue to create nearly as much racial inequality as existed during Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The sharp jut of a wall accounted for the detachment of the wheel which was now getting considerable attention from half a dozen curious chauffeurs. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The officer’s account is a beautiful example of how a high-stress moment—in the right hands—can be utterly transformed: It was dusk. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I don’t care if you want to five a lie, but I don’t see no reason for you to make me suffer on account of it.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I can’t tell if the tears in my eyes are on account of smoke or grief. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Consequently, he insisted on using one single mathematical model to account for a planet’s movement across the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We’d make our last collections, go over our CD stock, balance our accounts. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Horan’s commanding officer asked him to account for his absence: where had he been the last few days? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Manetti’s account is puzzling and unsatisfactory, but it is all we have. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Though his health was declining rapidly, newspaper accounts of the proslavery speeches in the House roused him for one final appearance in print. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

"My tattler tells all. Reputable sources only. Firsthand accounts." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She brought her office skills to the garage full-time and started keeping the books, making the schedule, balancing the accounts. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Dr. Nawaz had told me that would happen, on account of the breath­ing tube they had slid through his vocal cords. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a tale that she relished retelling, and her rich accounts shed plenty of light on what happened next. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Even one of the bank officers had to have been in on it, passing information to Hertzoon about their customers and tipping him off to newcomers from the country opening accounts. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But, according to a newly discovered account, Hale was tricked and seized by Major Robert Rogers, a bold British officer known for his cunning. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I have is $1.75 in my inmate account right now. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Make sure all members of your Compartment are accounted for. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I went out to get another bottle, but I was thwarted by the ATM, which gave me the much-anticipated riposte: There are insufficient funds in jour account. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have added the account of what Jason and Medea did there, taking it from the fifth-century tragic poet Euripides, who made it the subject of one of his best plays. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Circumstances change, Harry.... We have to take into account...in the present climate...Surely you don’t want to be expelled?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

My grandfather explodes into the kitchen, shouting, “They closed my email account!” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“Please, I beg of you, do not fight on my account. They have the advantage. You’ll only get hurt.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The landlady, a woman of around forty or so, appears to regard me as a rather grand visitor on account of Mr Farraday's Ford and the high quality of my suit. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

As on the riverbank, Blackberry had moved away and was already down on the road on his own account, sniffing out toward the middle, halfway between Hazel and the bend. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The terrible thing that the Party had done was to persuade you that mere impulses, mere feelings, were of no account, while at the same time robbing you of all power over the material world. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I thought of waking my mother in the next room, but my father’s words of warning not to wake her on account of bad dreams stopped me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Newton waited nearly thirty years before publishing a full account of his discovery of calculus; no one could have seemed less interested in claiming priority. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His mother spends hours on the phone and has all the names changed on the bank account, the mortgage, the bills. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

On account of that injury I told you about. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s my school account, I’m still surprised to see Daddy’s name. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Neither niece nor baby grandaunt labored under any illusions on that account. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other reason was: They weren’t hiring anyone under eighteen now, on account of a new community service program they’d set up with the high school. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Katherine and I have been butting heads since I showed up at Miss Preston’s School of Combat, and not just on account of her being so offensively pretty. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The general public seems to imagine that our prisons are filled with “rapists and murderers,” but they actually account for a small minority of our nation’s prison population. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

My mother didn’t speak French and I had never seen her do anything but add and subtract in her account book. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the day, the sand is crisscrossed with a mesh of ordinates, abscissas, curves to account for everything in nature. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had nine classes: mathematics, accounts, biology, computer science, and physical science were easy. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“The presence of the saloons,” one observer commented, “may be largely accounted for by the absence of decent and cheerful home life.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The tallest being Rachel, at five feet six inches and the full benefit of Miss America posture; the shortest being myself, two inches lesser than my twin on account of crookedness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farid said, walking me slowly from the hospital accounting office back to the car. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Brij on the grounds of religious tolerance and me on account of I’m a conscientious objector. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Yet geography obviously has some effect on history; the open question concerns how much effect, and whether geography can account for history’s broad pattern. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was this that eventually led him to create a sterile laboratory–the world’s first, according to at least one account. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Yet if Elizebeth always hoped her story would be told someday, she wanted the account to be an honest one. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Their account would claim my brothers first, then it would spread to my aunts, uncles, cousins, the whole valley. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Have no fear on that account. I accept.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I got by between paydays by neglecting overdue bills and borrowing money from Robin, so twice a month, when a few hundred dollars went into my account, it was gone within hours. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

You may remember from the first book that Kay was inclined to throw his tongue a bit too much, and he had got himself unpopular on account of this. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or a lame Twitter account where she retweets memes about the importance of hand washing. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Vincent is a jack of all trades: he supervises shipments, keeps the account books, runs errands, and does whatever other odd jobs need doing. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I’m only at Level 28, because usually I’m logged in as an encrypted, anonymous account, and none of my activity or wins get properly recorded. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was still being snotty on account of her ankles when she was skating. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“It means nobody will be able to live here on account of the smell. A rotten egg is a regular stink bomb.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Have you done something bad today on account of the terrible heat? Have you broken the rules? Please tell us you have.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The sex impulse was dangerous to the Party, and the Party had turned it to account. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Aviation experts will tell you that it is the success of this war on mitigation as much as anything else that accounts for the extraordinary decline in airline accidents in recent years. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

What is it about the different organization of these various Korean industries that accounts for their differences in productivity within the same country? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“That all but forty-five of the orphans are accounted for by the Anti-Slavery Society.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But Terryl found a community college, feeding off encouragement from the Man- dels, the family she worked for at the accounting firm, and her own raw faith that she could change her circumstances. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There were other buildings, usually the outlying ones, that were virtually falling down, which we couldn’t use for much, but for which we felt in some vague way responsible—mainly on account of Keffers. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was a hollowness to all the accounts, an echo of unreality. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But we’d hear the drivers giving lurid and inaccurate accounts of the history of the place and the family which inhabited it. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

That would account for their blandness, the absence of bitten fingers, their level blueeyed gaze. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“A scullery maid. Of no account. But our cook, Mandy, has cakes fit for a prince.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He talked about accounts and expenses and how things would have been if he had just managed in a different way. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The current vogue for poisons has failed utterly to take into account these most fundamental considerations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

If anyone had been watching, they would have noticed that the wheel fell faster than gravity could account for. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was no utility in firing again; Clippinger accounted it little worth the loss of powder and shot. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Your dad says it's because I remember things better than other people on account of how I pay very close attention and care very much.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Selden explained that he had paid her bail out of his own bank account. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I have ten days, because I haven’t accounted for the time it will take to mail it to New York. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

His first chapter is instead a lengthy account of how our domesticated plants and animals arose through artificial selection by humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The father is from the North, Angela, and that would account for it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Naturally, those pictorial signs consisted mainly of numerals plus nouns for visible objects; the resulting texts were merely accounting reports in a telegraphic shorthand devoid of grammatical elements. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When asked to account for the time I’ve spent in Paris, I reach for my carton of ticket stubs and groan beneath its weight. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

So by taking them all into account, she had absolute faith she could prevent every one of them. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare numbly at the account info that now displays before us, hovering in the center of the living room. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I shut down my account,” I said, turning off my shower. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I might be able to steal Sudden Death right out of their account. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I put my life at hazard there, which some might account valor; but I knew it for the rashness of despair, the precipitation of utter despondence. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, not a regular orphan. I had people and all, but my mama died and nobody would take me in. It was on account of the way she died that nobody would take me.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom had stopped volunteering with the community theater and started working at an accounting office. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Here and there a Luddite holdout refuses to open an email account, just as thousands of years ago some human bands refused to take up farming and so escaped the luxury trap. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moment he appeared, she launched into an account of household upsets. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bailey and I helped Momma, while Uncle Willie sat on the porch and heard the day’s account. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She logged into her Book Scavenger account and did a user search for Raven. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“By all accounts, he is no loss!” blustered Fudge. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

More than a century later, when Dobyns went to Lima, Prescott’s was still the only complete account. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And then one morning the bank teller informed Lefty that there weren’t sufficient funds in his account to make a withdrawal. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Because he was a blacksmith, Sequoyah began by devising an accounting system to help him keep track of his customers’ debts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He published his account of their lives, Nomads of the Longbow, in 1950. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh? Well, that would account for it. Then I suppose I shall have to come in and get it.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

According to an account written in the Suffragist, they burned “all the words he has ever uttered or written on the subject of democracy.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The complete set comprises the most comprehensive account of the United States ever got together, and nothing since has even approached it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's very possible that Jane is thinking the same thing, but I have no idea, because she's not talking either, and I can't look at her on account of how I'm blinded by embarrassment. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Early Egyptian hieroglyphs recorded religious and state propaganda and bureaucratic accounts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But Stillman Drake, of the University of Toronto, has come up with what seems the most probable account of the events of late February 1616, in the light of what happened later. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I must make a full account of this,” the doctor said happily. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Only in two ways could I account for it: sedation and seasickness. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s no such thing as a good magician. Let’s not forget how close we came to canceling the training sessions this summer on account of those hybrid attacks.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It is what is called a classical theory; that is, it does not take account of the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics, as it should for consistency with other theories. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1786, aged just forty-three, he was found dead at his workbench surrounded by an array of toxic chemicals, any one of which could have accounted for the stunned and terminal look on his face. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Pete Earley’s book Circumstantial Evidence was published a few months after Walter was freed, and it provided a detailed account of the case. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t tempted to pray or to settle his accounts with God. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She kept the bonuses from her job in a separate bank account in her name. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

If it is in the nature of living things to pool resources, to fuse when possible, we would have a new way of accounting for the progressive enrichment and complexity of form in living things. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking into account loose slates, buffeting wind and the occasional slide backwards, Matthias reckoned he had done pretty well as he gained the roof ridge. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

There had been four thousand dollars in that account! Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

As ’twas, he could neither affirm nor deny her account of her childhood. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The troll managed Freebie’s account, and he was basically never allowed to say no to any Freebie-related request. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

But in all the stories they play an unimportant part except in the account of Castor’s death, when Pollux proved his brotherly devotion. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to Nelson’s accounting, nearly half my father’s congregation were relatives of dead twins. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read every account of the Fascist movement in Germany I could lay my hands on, and from page to page I encountered and recognized familiar emotional patterns. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

After that he led her through the account of her resistance and arrest on March 2, 1955. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Charles’s first book was to be published that summer—his account of the voyage on the Beagle. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew plain shooting couldn’t account for that much blood. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father thus replied to the effect that while he was most grateful that his feelings had been taken into account, Mr Silvers could be assured that service would be provided to the usual standards. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Boyle’s law provided a theoretical account of how pressure could be used to produce powerful force, if one could only find a way of harnessing that force for a useful purpose. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t account for that hundred years, so I assumed it was a typo. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Any account with an F on it instead of an M. All they needed to do is push a few buttons. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite myself, I thought about my bank account in the States. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t have no checking account or bank account. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, if all Aboriginal Australian societies were for some reason uniformly resistant to change, that might account for their continued use of stone tools after metal tools had appeared on every other continent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Do not ask me, reader, to give a minute account of that day; as before, I sought work; as before, I was repulsed; as before, I starved; but once did food pass my lips. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

This happened around 600 million years ago, at the beginning of the Paleozoic era, and accounts for the sudden abundance of marine fossils of all kinds in the record of this period. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she so appreciated Charles’s letters: “Your minute accounts are such a comfort and I enjoyed sponging our dear one with vinegar as much as you did.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the watercolor would account for fifty percent of his mark this semester. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

From Martin’s accounts, the actual uprisings were small and chaotic. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Media accounts persistently bright-side the situation, highlighting the occasional success stories and downplaying the acknowledged increase in hunger. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to withdraw money from his savings account, in order to continue his steady assault on all nine hundred and ninety-nine possible permutations of a three-digit variable. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If I attempted to account for scenes and characters, to tell why certain scenes were written in certain ways, I’d be stretching facts in order to be pleasantly intelligible. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The meeting had been postponed twice on account of Lander’s speaking engagements. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

After lunch, I was visited by Mrs. Flagg and a frowning clerk with a spotted face who carried an account book, an ink pot, and quill. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He punctuated the account occasionally by opening his eyes, but he made no comment. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In a matter of a few months, half a dozen other students were working under him, and he’d put seven thousand dollars into his bank account. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he was thumbing through his accounts book, the stout woman entered, alone. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I got it. Thanks. A savings account for college is a good idea.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Some might say he’s too good on account of how he brought Shayleen home that morning. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

And because the death penalty is rarely given for crimes other than homicide, its deterrent effect cannot account for a speck of decline in other violent crimes. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

By some accounts, his marriage, already ailing before Frankie’s death, was staggering, and maybe he needed to get away. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you put this on my dad’s account?” she asked the cashier. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

There is more than one account of how that came to pass. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pored through old Russian and American accounts of the area to find answers, but he never asked the people in Larsen Bay about their own culture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Every time something like this happens, I go to accounting for every person I know who also fits the description, who it could’ve been. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The predator and the preyed upon exist not alone, but as part of a vast web of life, all of which needs to be taken into account. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Those factors seem to me to account for the Americas’ technological lag behind Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then she gave an account of how the dinner ended with the twins’ note, and the search parties going off into the grounds. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

By one account, Howard himself served as a driver, speeding into the ruins to gather the stranded and rush them down to rescue ships on the bay. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the money arrived in her bank, Jule withdrew it all and opened a new checking account somewhere else. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She learned household accounting—how to add and subtract bills for soap, candles, and flour. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We were only able to piece the whole story together alter the fact, as we collected all the different accounts from everyone who was there. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

This is what accounts, in part, for the entire evacuation. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

So far, it ran to minute descriptions of the lush furnishings of Sherry’s house, rhapsodies over Sherry’s exquisite clothes, and course-by-course accounts of fabulous meals consumed by the heroine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Review of action makes many reported contacts and torpedoes fired appear doubtful. Freak weather effects on radar and overeager sonarmen may have accounted for many reports.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to rely on someone else to protect him, someone who could get hurt on his account. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Any students reported would then have to hand over their passwords to social media and email accounts or face suspension and a potential investigation by federal authorities. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Although Lavoisier himself was by all accounts mild and fair-minded, the company he worked for was neither. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Happenings in the outside world were muffled by the fact that we heard of them first through rumor; only later might they be confirmed by a newspaper account or an outside visitor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could smell out falsehood, she could, but she was dead, Father had killed her, on account of Arya. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She was pulling a thousand dollars here and there from a lot of different accounts to keep the transactions small and avoid suspicion as she put together the money to pay off Angela. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

She had liked Mr. Dickens’s account of his travels in America—all but the Lowell part. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“My email account at the lab! Someone closed my account. I can’t access it anymore!” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Her extended family and friends fill up whole sections of the auditorium at shows and account for thousands of dollars in ticket sales. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Wherritt staggered in panic from one end of the car to the other, driving passengers before him “like scared sheep,” according to one account. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

While the women in Hampton Institute’s Engineering for Women courses were preparing for their new careers as computers, Mary Jackson managed the USO’s modest financial accounts and welcomed guests at the club’s front door. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

As if this account didn’t already suffer from an overdose of amoral individuals. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I’m sure he puts it on his company’s account, anyway He gives me the money and I thank him. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

In the evening we prepared ourselves to square accounts with Himmelstoss. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He published his new, Copernican account of the cosmos alongside his father’s old, Ptolemaic account. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

So I told him I would simply write an account of our visit, just as if I were doing a descriptive special article for The Daily Telegraph. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

"Well, no, not exactly, but I can usually get them on account of my heighth," I said. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was later, after another dinner of plain white rice had been consumed and tea forgone again on account of the drought, after Rasheed had smoked a cigarette, that he told Laila about his decision. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I trusted my father, but wondered how his explanation accounted for Rambo and Chuck Norris, who came to the trading center that summer and created a lot of controversy. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Heroic was the account he gave that evening of his interview with the D.H.C. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1936 the federal government had spent $33 million on research and development, accounting for 15 percent of the $218 million advanced by all sources, including industry, academia, and philanthropic foundations. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Each of these serious infractions, regardless of the disposition, resulted in a five-dollar charge to the inmate’s account. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were a little late in arriving at the railway station on account of the argument with the traffic policeman. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, Mr. Bilder, can you account in any way for the escape of the wolf?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

On account of it was Sunday, there were only about three shows playing. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The sixth-grade class tried to add to Charles Fort’s accounts and studied the idea of coincidence. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Also, would I mind doing the driving for the rest of the day because she doesn’t trust herself on account of the dizziness? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there is absolutely no evidence, other than Viviani’s account much later, to suggest that crowds gathered to watch Galileo’s early experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

How could I trust her account after what she’d been through? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She would be well aware of the extent of her self-mythologizing, and she gave her account a self-mocking, or mock-heroic tone. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Kaz hated a puzzle he couldn’t solve, and he and Inej had concocted a hundred theories to account for the murder—none of which satisfied. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Yet this was not sufficient to account for the stench hanging over the miles and miles of desolation. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, get out the accounts and I’ll make you a bill of sale on that place.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And though Grove would eventually release a fictionalized version called The Years of Fear, the original historical account was never published. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Stephen Byerley placed two fingers to the bridge of his nose, “Then the Machine cannot be tampered with—And how do you account for recent errors, then?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

What would I tell the committee when the newspaper accounts were out? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Firsthand accounts of the fair were sparking heightened interest. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

What would our fathers do if we suddenly stood up and came before them and proffered our account? All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my avatar recovers, I roll over and check my inventory, eager to see the Morph power-up in my account. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The more firsthand accounts we heard, the more we began to realize what was happening. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The annals of medicine are full of accounts of diseases that sound like no disease known today, but that once caused terrifying epidemics and then disappeared as mysteriously as they had come. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But that doesn't account for 60 liters of missing water. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles did not reply until he had received four anxious letters, and then he replied coolly, “I didn’t hardly expect you anyway,” and he went on with a detailed account of farm and animals. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are two very different accounts of her father’s response. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He was, in addition, by all accounts, morbidly melancholic, given to fits of severe depression. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

What I mean is that it is really only experts who are able to reliably account for their reactions. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

But it was too late for me to say anything, having missed the introductions on account of being the maidservant. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The news item on page seven was the first account of his wife’s death that Shadow had read. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“So...these are just accounts of what people do every day?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In and out of his children's lives, even though he has a job and a place and, by all accounts, some sense of right and wrong. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There’s $213 left in Molly’s savings account from the minimum-wage job she had last summer scooping ice cream in Bar Harbor. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Only later did he sit down at his desk to do his accounts and order a meal brought in to him on a tray. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at him because J.T.’s family hardly ever went anywhere, on account of their chicken farm. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Whenever he here, he look like he just counting the minutes till he get to go back to his accounting job. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When this news had been exchanged with headquarters, a message came back to ask whether he could give an account of himself. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Savannah and I will set up quarterly tax payments and establish a trust to protect your savings and start your college account. And, of course, a retirement plan.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Copernicus’s disciple Rheticus, in the first published account of the Copernican theory, held back any reference to heliocentrism for as long as he possibly could, for fear of alienating his readers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The accounts differed in the details, but on one thing they all agreed: only a few could access its power. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Historians have subsequently pointed out to me that Europe’s fragmentation, China’s unity, and Europe’s and China’s relative strengths were all more complex than depicted in my account. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The greater part of those accounts were idle tales and could not be relied on, and the books that Illyrio had provided them were not the ones he might have wished for. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The quantum laws are more liberal and allow you to be overdrawn on one or two accounts provided the total balance is positive. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly there was more to extinctions than could be accounted for by a single Noachian deluge, as the Biblical flood was known. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But men have made the same mistake more than once—left the whole business out of account, or been content to trust to luck and the fortune of war. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wants to open up a Roth retirement account, but can’t seem to save enough. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I’m about to shut down her account, but I find myself distracted by the months of messages just sitting here. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The Ptolemaic avenues with their grand colonnades are gone, but the streets of Alexandria are just as crowded and chaotic as the ancient accounts describe. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

She was no doubt taking the political wind into account, navigating Soviet affairs of state as carefully as she navigated the skies. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

For example, there were even the present-day accounts of how a man named Onofre Martinez lost his arm, and of how a tiny woman called Ruby Archuleta killed a deer with her bare hands. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most people don’t know that and wouldn’t even take it into account. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His daughters affectionately referred to him as “the Warden” on account of his strictness—no makeup, no boyfriends, no staying out late. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

In order to have a Copernicanism with spheres there needs to be an account of how the Earth/moon system is attached to a sphere, which is noticeably lacking. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Mr. Butterbur had come trotting in, and he was now trying to listen to several conflicting accounts of the event at the same time. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I’m coming! I’m coming!” he exclaimed as Helen wound up her account. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

McShane had given her a checking account with a thousand dollars in it as a wedding present. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Must be a bill collector," Hoo said, frowning over his account book. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing, he moved to the door, his eyes on his accounts box. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I used my time commuting to and from New York City to upload content to Louella’s social media accounts, like Instagram or Twitter, urging people to shop Louella. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It's like the less numbers in your bank account, the more numbers in your address. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Frustrated and antsy, I snuck a peek at my email account. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

We don’t even try putting the signs up before classes start, on account of Addie and me getting stopped the day before. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I will also show how this physical account is to be brought under mathematics and geometry. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I shook out my purse and was surprised to see four drabs and a copper ha’penny I hadn’t accounted for. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But, as the following derivation shows, such experiences are more rationally accounted for by coincidence. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a small grocery store nearby where my father, before his arrest, had maintained a simple charge account. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hold up my drawing, showing the intricate plan I spent most of the morning working on, every detail perfectly accounted for and coinciding with a different person and a task. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Of course. I have your account information on the computer.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

He pointed out that nothing in our understanding of physics could account for why everything, gathered to a point, would suddenly and dramatically begin to expand. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

That same day, we set up a bank account at the post office. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In the early accounts Eros was not Aphrodite’s son, but merely her occasional companion. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to be near the hospital anyway on account of Madame,” I said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

For Pelops’ winning the chariot race I have preferred Apollodorus, of the first or second century A.D., who gives the fullest account that has come down to us. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My mother will have cooked lunch. Did you want to pay now for the sausage, or have Mr. Kreuk add it to your account?" Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The morning the money landed in my parents’ bank account, my dad said, “I think we should buy a car.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He dropped a bombshell on my grandmother and me by telling us that on no account were we to risk the journey to Norway this summer. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

But the surface alone couldn’t account for so sluggish a workout. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The accounts taught subsequent explorers what conditions to expect, and helped them prepare themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

You can't stop going with an old friend on account of rumors and on the other hand I had no intention of being rumored into marriage. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Black women replaced them, accounting for 60 percent of all domestics in the 1940s, and dominated the field until other occupations began to open up to them. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bank accounts will be rounded to the nearest nickel. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He reminded the men to exchange the hundred-dollar bills at a bank, to ensure that any purchases they made could not be traced back to a White House account. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“They are all accounted for—back in the mortal world and in place for the final assault.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Adah, on account of keeping her backwards diary, is the only one that keeps a close track of what day it is. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Realizing that its account had been hacked, the AP quickly took down the false message. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

In December, after my last paycheck of the month, I had sixty dollars in my account. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Well then, sir, I accounts for it this way; it seems to me that ’ere wolf escaped—simply because he wanted to get out.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

In Leon’s life, or rather, in his account of his life, no one was mean-spirited, no one schemed or lied or betrayed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The poor squirrel was the only creature that might be trusted to give an honest accounting of the events that had led to its untimely arrival at the party. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Yet it was not only on that account we missed you. It was—” I stopped, not knowing how to finish. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some turn aside, uneasy in a way they cannot account for; others feel suddenly empty when her eyes leave theirs. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

It was the closest account to my house, and it was an enormous corner lot that I figured would give Kenny and Allen a better sense of the work involved. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Ms. Oliver’s account is to be believed—and we’ve no reason not to believe it—this was a pretty remarkable speech for anyone to deliver off the cuff. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Burt employed bizarre accounting methods in order to conceal his fleecing of the Osage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Of saving their mother from humiliation and suffering on their account. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We know that the surface is dominated by silicates, which are relatively light and not heavy enough to account for the planet’s overall density. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

There were days when she was quite silent; but there were others when I could not account for the sounds she made. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

All of us, for example, are descended at some point from hunter- gatherers, and many hunter-gatherers, by all accounts, had a pretty leisurely life. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He knew that his mother was waiting for him to give an account of himself, and he hated her for that. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mother Marie’s account of her son began when she was herself but seven years old. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But since his arrest, the account had not been used. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just came to the library to see if I could get that beak right, which I probably couldn’t on account of how I don’t draw. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Dear Customer, We are returning this check to you because your account is overdrawn and the transaction cannot be honored. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The Tlingit had preserved in oral tradition an entirely recognizable and accurate account of their first, almost fully peaceable encounter with an alien culture.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eva took on administrative duties for our new project, which were pretty challenging given that federal dollars came with all kinds of complex reporting and accounting requirements. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I exit from my account and remind myself to focus my thoughts on Ren instead. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Of course, any choice of a starting date for the history of science is arbitrary, and my own account is restricted geographically, as well as in the time span it covers. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

They always called me Wood—in church, after church, any time we crossed paths—on account of the fact that we Peales dragged that wood across the prairie to build our house. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Its frantic little banners seemed to be signaling distress now, on account of Mama Tataba’s vigorous washings in the river. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the first endorsement payment arrived in my account, I bought a one-way bus ticket to Columbus, Ohio, set to depart at eight the following morning. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

During the campaign three notorious giants were accounted for—two of them by Arthur himself. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big Ma said, “Don’t worry on my account. The Lord will provide for me.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Why do department stores or suburban water companies find it necessary to assign account numbers with twenty or more symbols? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On welcoming me aboard he told me that I was first to work in the bookkeeping section, sorting and filing checks according to some intricate accounting system. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chance provides more than enough variation to account for the sprinkling of successes that will occur with almost any treatment; indeed, it would be a miracle if there weren’t any “miracle cures.” Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He almost fainted when he saw how big their expense account was. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hutton was by all accounts a man of the keenest insights and liveliest conversation, a delight in company, and without rival when it came to understanding the mysterious slow processes that shaped the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I also opened a bank account, rented a post office box, and bought a plastic bowl and a spoon at Woolworth’s, a store whose name I recognized from London. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” he answered, rising, and turning away, “Satan tempted me and I fell. I ain’t the first man been made to fall on account of a wicked woman.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

For this reason I cannot commend this account as an America that you will find. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents had accounts with the various airlines and were hired to repair bags the airlines had damaged. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It is essential, then, to keep one's attention focused on the present; to guard against any complacency creeping in on account of what one may have achieved in the past. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She signs her small paychecks over to Ashoke, and he deposits them for her at the bank into their account. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

With a few notable exceptions, most of the stories were thinly veiled accounts of the author's life as he or she attempted to complete the assignment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

If you read Madison’s correspondence during this same time, you get the strong impression that the problem went much deeper than any shuffling of account books could ever satisfy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

A set of keys went missing for an hour early last week and then turned up again in the wrong place, and nobody can account for the time they were gone. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

They had a spirit and skill that hadn’t yet been accounted for in the polls. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And it is the blackness that accounts for, that creates, the vacuum edged with distaste in white eyes. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when I got home that afternoon, I created an e-mail account and wrote my old friend Jason Worthington. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I watched them every day at lunch as they read to each other the accounts of the bloodshed reported in the Jewish press and then talked about it among themselves. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Rindlisbacher started looking for witnesses; the local cop showed him to Kaiserman, who was sitting in the back of an ambulance and gave the trooper his account of the swerving Chevy Tahoe. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

By one account, the amount of oil money had surpassed the total value of all the Old West gold rushes combined, and this fortune had drawn every breed of miscreant from across the country. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Still and all, he got better terms at the store than most, on account of my daddy, and Papa helped out some with cash money. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

So were many who read newspaper accounts of the panic, even though they hadn’t heard the broadcast themselves. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“But holding onto the cities was never sustainable. There are too many factors we cannot account for, and soon even the Survivalist leaders—the mayors, the congressmen—realized that it wasn’t a long-term plan.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

According to an account recorded by a friend of Stanton’s, her father told her, “Your first lecture will be a very expensive one,” threatening to disinherit her if she went through with it. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

My dad is usually long gone by the time all this happens, on account of his always working Saturdays at the nursery, except in the wintertime. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The No-Name Party is in business, and all on account of me. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

But I always say there’s no accounting for taste. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

First, she took account of things she knew for certain. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Lommy had named him the Bull, on account of this homed helm he had that he polished all the time but never wore. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As he poured out an account of the morning’s events, Gwydion listened intently. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

But before the after-action accounts of the duel degenerated into a duel of its own, the only two eyewitnesses, Pendleton and Van Ness, published a “Joint Statement.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Stopping for a coffee, asking directions, depositing money in my bank account: these things were out of the question, as they involved having to speak. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Genie felt a smile coming on account of Ernie’s words, but he held it in and asked instead, “So nothing ever happened to Cake?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When the horse ran poorly, Pollard skipped over the disappointing race notes and invented tales of Preservator’s impressive feats, dreaming of bad-luck excuses to account for the horse’s losses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we eat, I bring up my account and send Hideo an invite to join me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Wait in the library. There's wood. Start a fire. I won't have die maester catching a chill on account of you." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Throughout the first day the Trojans defended themselves successfully, following the strict orders which Aeneas at his departure had given them on no account to undertake an offensive. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They acknowledged that further studies would likely show that contamination “will ultimately account completely for our observations.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She was popular, an only child, and by all accounts without blemish. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I tapped into his phone account and scanned his Calls Made list. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

It is the quality of craftsmanship that accounts substantially for the glory of Shenandoah National Park. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember what other treatments they used, and I don’t know enough about the energy work to give an account. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

American autobiographical literature is filled with numerous accounts of remarkable men who pulled themselves to the summit by their bootstraps. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

You ran downstairs and demanded of Mrs. Fairfax some occupation: the weekly house accounts to make up, or something of that sort, I think it was. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

So if nature accounts for half of a child’s destiny, what accounts for the other half? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

As usual, he asked for an account of her day. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

You remonstrate: “The answer’s not X but Y. You forgot to take account of this or that.” Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By all accounts, we seem to be off to a great school year. Teachers are already handing out piles of homework, and the cafeteria is serving veggie sloppy joes. It makes a principal proud.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Supervising this entire phase of the operation was a medical officer with a flair for accounting who okayed pulses and checked the figures of the tally clerk. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It proved a fatal interview for the latter, who many months afterward gave this account of it to a friend: “Mr. Dam- eron said, ‘Now, Lee, I’ve known you all your life. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she couldn’t make their house payments or buy groceries because George had drained their account yet again buying lab equipment they couldn’t afford. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In Pascal’s account of why the mercury does not descend in the Torricellian tube the formal and material causes are so attenuated as to be uninteresting, and the final cause has disappeared completely. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She knew she had overheard an account of serious insubordination to the King, yet in her heart she was glad that her uncle had known this small victory. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“On account of...Well, you know. Certain events.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They were jealous of Guenever on this account They were delighted by the opportunity which they saw before them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Officers get special treatment on account of they’re considered gentlemen. They have parole to walk around the city. They live in boardinghouses and eat regular.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I’ll take you. I gotta go right back to work, though. There’s emergencies all over the county on account of the freeze. I don’t know when I can pick y’all up.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s not out of breath at all, and probably spends most of his life in the gym on account of his rippling biceps, not that a kid like me would notice them. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Galileo was the first to turn Archimedes’ account of how bodies float into a theory to be tested with an experimental apparatus; at which point the theory proved incomplete. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Moreover, studies have shown that an unemployment decline of 1 percentage point accounts for a 1 percent drop in nonviolent crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

There always seem to be escape clauses which can account for anything. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drug offenses alone account for two-thirds of the rise in the federal prison population and more than half the rise in the state prison population between 1985 and 2000. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He accounted it a pity that so fine and talented a young man should have formed the design of going out as a missionary; it was quite throwing a valuable life away. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

After several decades of research, I have developed a set of functions for music that takes into account the role of neurology and physiology as well as culture in its relationship to music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t even know if I can access their accounts the same way I can in regular Warcross. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes! We got invited to this fancy dinner party on account of saving so many folks at the lecture a couple of weeks ago.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He returned to his classroom position before the fireplace and began slowly, as one giving an account of kings long dead and wars long done with; his voice was carefully unemotional. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was able to program the rules of the game well enough, but I didn’t account for the robot’s strength.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Then the Bath minister asked if the bereaved would like to come forward and speak some words to the assembled congregation about this good man, comforting others through an account of this holy man’s homegoing. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She gives me a sharp look, and I can see she’s present and accounted for again. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, thank you—but on no account.—I would rather walk.—And for me to be afraid of walking alone!—I, who may so soon have to guard others!” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

She shivered, and found herself at the same time unable to account for the excitement she felt, which made it difficult to remember why it was so odd to wake up happy in Hill House. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

According to an account by Blood, while in a trance she told the attractive colonel that his destiny was to become her husband. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He pulled a lamp close and wrote in the ruled accounts book, his steel nib skritching on the page. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Not account of any quarrel with Mr. Clutter. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the track was, by all accounts, perfect—the Suburban was run in record time—no one believed them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I love what I did. But I don’t know who I am beyond the voice of a Twitter account and the evil face for a franchise.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The word “chance” does not serve to account well for structures of such magnificence. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Based on eyewitness accounts, police believe the boy may be traveling with two teenage accomplices. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

We were puzzled by this account, though everyone else on campus seemed to know all about it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Tree took account of road, which was aware of air, which was mindful of sea, which shared things with sun. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

My progressions are insane, certainly not an advertisement of ability—more like an accounting of a ceramic shop after an earthquake. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Then, telegraph lines hummed with brief accounts of the tragedy, and these details were passed from city to city. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the accounts were wrongly added up. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ovid’s account shows him at his worst, sentimental and exclamatory. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just on account of seven rats?” said Billy. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

According to most historical accounts, the Osage Reign of Terror spanned from the spring of 1921, when Hale had Anna Brown murdered, to January 1926, when Hale was arrested. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Over the next week Palmer got better acquainted with the pigeon and adjusted his own life to take his new friend into account. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I did the ordering and the inventory and he upgraded the accounting system, brought in new electric cash registers, streamlined the vendors—modernized it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, accounts of the 1963 epic on Everest resonated loud and long in my preadolescent imagination. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

In practically every account of the 2014 World Championship in Nanning, there was some mention of the bee that climbed out of my bouquet of flowers as I stood on the gold medal podium. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Yet even after accounting for thirty-five nonracial variables, the researchers found that defendants charged with killing white victims were 4.3 times more likely to receive a death sentence than defendants charged with killing blacks. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I think this problem—not being taken into account—exists in some degree, however minimal, for nearly all people who work in prisons. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Callie cried more to see that a page of one book had ripped on account of her, and that several other pages had gotten creased. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I’d probably always have to say “Pineapple” once in a while on account of Scrappy’s temper that I have. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

A tremendous effort by kind, old Mrs. Jacobs from the accounts payable department She brings an apple pie — but wait a minute. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered her again, thought back to whether he'd failed to account for some facet of her personality in his calculations. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, a hundred tears or one,” the woman said, obviously cross to have her account disputed, “when her tear fell on the wall, the part it touched just collapsed—as if crushed by her sorrow.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The severity of Martin’s account had sent her down an avenue of odd humor. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Linear B was inherently so ambiguous that it remained restricted to palace accounts, whose context and limited word choices made the interpretation clear. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I have quit several jobs & so has Perry on account of Bully Bosses. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure Cloke would have set them straight on that account.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Would I have to go to Wolf Point and take everything out of my bank account there? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

And Mama Nguza, who walks with her head held strangely high on account of the giant goiter nestled like a goose egg under her chin. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They, however, asked little of him, holding him in awe, partly because he was a wizard from the Isle of the Wise, and partly on account of his silence and his scarred face. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Beowulf was only a young man, but already he had won fame on account of his goodness and daring. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

These hallmarks of war in Yayoi Japan corroborate the earliest accounts of Japan in Chinese chronicles, which describe the land of Wa and its hundred little political units fighting with one another. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

My earlier break, the one I’d committed so many crimes to preserve, had been a complete bust, with no other human around but a management-level woman from accounting. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I can barely make out her words on account of the jubilation around me, children jumping up and down, into and out of their adoring parents’ arms. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Before the end of World War II, when Emperor Hirohito finally told the Japanese people that he was not of divine descent, Japanese archaeologists and historians had to make their interpretations conform to this account. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Inequalities of temper were easily accounted for out there, where men's nerves were continually snapping under the strain. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

These are old videos that I recorded on a phone before the NeuroLink even came out, videos that I later downloaded into my account. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I figured if he stole more of our meat, Mama would have to see that he was too sorry and no account to keep. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he read newspaper accounts of the arrest of Klaus Fuchs in Britain, he knew it would be soon. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pretending not to be serious when you’re called to account for your flaws, thereby trying to leave your opponent with only imaginary ground to stand on.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

What killed alchemy was the insistence that experiments must be openly reported in publications which presented a clear account of what had happened, and they must then be replicated, preferably before independent witnesses. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Even given the elements of exaggeration and myth-making in these accounts, it’s clear what a premium was placed on the training of the memory. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Although a full-grown rabbit is not really in danger from owls, there are few who take no account of them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It read “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Historical accounts of the trip suggest that Caesar hoped to trace the Nile to its source. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

‘Why, they said you was dead! Lost in the Old Forest by all accounts. I’m pleased to see you alive after all!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got a bed open and half the rent to account for.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Fairfax, I saw, approved me: her anxiety on my account vanished; therefore I was certain I did well. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Outwardly, he was living a surprisingly conventional existence, even going so far as to open a savings account at a local bank. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, inspired by the sound of their laughter and by this moment, I quickly log in to the YouTube account Ms. Holly gave me. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Once I quit drinking and started making decent money at the little accounting firm I’d interned with, we bought the house on Overlook Road. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She scrolls back in time on their accounts. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

On account of this rotation the entire universe appears to revolve with enormous speed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Greenland Supermarkets sacked Dad 'cause an expense account was £20 short. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

According to the accounts of White and other agents, he looked at the agents warily, insisting he didn’t know a thing. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I put down my laptop, ignoring the chimes from the couple accounts I’ve pinned, and go straight to Dad’s bedroom. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Robert asked me to give them an account of my African tour, which I did gladly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Recognizing that his continent-wide estimate did not account for regional variation, Kroeber encouraged future scholars to seek out and analyze “sharply localized documentary evidence.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The tremendous advantage that the Spaniards gained from their horses leaps out of the eyewitness accounts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I suspect that Ms. Wyman would not care so much if she didn’t already have it in for Addie on account of the Pledge. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The house and ranch accounts. You said you wanted to know where you stood.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our cell phones were confiscated, on account of the whole sneaking-out-and-breaking-and-entering thing. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t been to college, which accounted for his schoolboy humor. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The offending piece was Theodora, a setting of a libretto by his friend Thomas Morell, which itself was based on an account of the early Christian martyr by Robert Boyle, the founder of modern chemistry. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

From the news accounts one would have thought Bunny the most stereotypical of “substance abusers” or “troubled teens.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When Mom finally kicked him out, Dad went to a new bank to open his own current account. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Only by taking account of such life forces and by cautiously seeking to guide them into channels favorable to ourselves can we hope to achieve a reasonable accommodation between the insect hordes and ourselves. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In the last centuries before 3000 B.C., developments in accounting technology, format, and signs rapidly led to the first system of writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, the four K.B.I. agents provided accounts of interviews with the prisoners, and of the confessions eventually made by them. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a parade in town on account of the Fair, and all of them went. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

But my encrypted, anonymous self is the account I use more often. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Slant, Pomp, and I listened for some time to these accounts, and then, the talk turning to other subjects, we whispered among ourselves. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

You start to wonder why your dead parent is more present and accounted for than the living one. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Though he knew that his failure to take the pills accounted for some of it, he thought that the feelings came also from the memories. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t even taken his journal, which would later become prized for its unrivaled accounts of the Zamani Region’s natural history. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The chronicles are also full of accounts of Koreans in Japan and of Japanese in Korea—interpreted by Japanese or Korean historians respectively as evidence of Japanese conquest of Korea or the reverse. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I closed down the browser window with his calendar in it, there was his email account, logged in, laid bare. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Darwin knew Charles was going to have his first book published, an account of his voyage on the Beagle, and it was clear that he had a promising scientific career. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Certainly its presence was enough to account for the damage to crops irrigated with this water. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“She isn’t a musician, and I’m not a painter. It isn’t on account of painting that I let things go.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was rumored, however, that Bellerophon had a mightier father, Poseidon himself, the Ruler of the Sea, and the youth’s surpassing gifts of spirit and body made this account of his birth seem likely. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

After seeing women omitted from history in the centennial celebrations, the suffragists decided to write their own account of the women’s suffrage movement. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

To our ears, accustomed to the subsequent six hundred years of harmony, there’s something missing that accounts for the bareness of sound. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The argument was on account of the accident to the two taxicabs. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

On account of his foot, Dad was pretty much living on the couch. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“By all accounts he appears to be someone who—unfortunately for him—does well in a structured environment,” she said. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Now and then there appear accounts of babies raised by animals—wolves and such. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before, she thought it was the sign of a very good assistant, never accounting for how deceptive such an appearance might be. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was more than the sparkling September air that accounted for her high spirits. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

"The specific manhole eventually selected for an entry point was in the worst possible location," according to one account, "except for the fact it was better than all the others." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“James,” he said, “you need to keep better account of your property.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“The accounts from Russia and from Paris this morning are alarming.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I feel that too, which probably accounts for my recent embarrassment over Margot, Mother and Father. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Owen Chase, whose account of the sinking of the whaling ship Essex by a whale inspired Herman Melville, survived eighty-three days at sea with two mates, interrupted by a one-week stay on an inhospitable island. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had a bit of a track record already, back in his own country, and he didn’t want Ariana set to his account too. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The Seattle people passed into memory and winter savings accounts; stoves were stoked, fires banked, books taken down, quilts mended. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

All of this was absent not only from my high school textbooks, but from the academic accounts they were based on. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ran was, by all accounts, an unusually gracious young man. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mom laughs, “I had to give you more than your dad. And I promise, the check won’t bounce. We actually have money in our account. You can check the math.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Because the sun could not hold out forever against its foes, one sixteenth-century Nahuatl account explained, it would one day inevitably lose—there was no getting around it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Constitution specifically provides that “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied...on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In 1980 in Montreal I was handed a pamphlet which rejected Newton’s account of gravity and defended a modified Cartesian account. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

OBS.—The heart is accounted the seat of bravery: hence, the derivative sense of courage. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hundred souls was a sturdy number to stop at—a fantastic figure by any measure—and that didn’t account for the colored farmers who’d purchased adjacent land and got their own operations going. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Lyra’s journey along the canals and her time with the gyptians had taken weeks: she’d have to account for that time. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

As to leaving the city, he had done so with the permission of the mayor, and had been gone only a short time to settle some business accounts. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“What do you think accounts for the success of the white man’s mission in Africa, Richard?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ve already forgiven you. You don’t have to keep insulting him on my account.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Consider Gaspar de Carvajal, author of the first written description of the Amazon, an account reviled for its inaccuracies and self- serving descriptions almost since the day it was released. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the two of them sat together in the kitchen to discuss meals and go over the household accounts. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He was picking up the sword, and stretching his hand to the latch, when the door opened on its own account Gareth came in. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always assumed, on account of the flowery language, that Hamlet took place around 1400, since everything in England takes place in 1400. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Soon, on account of the heat, I guess, that water started evaporating and drops ran down the grooves carved in that wooden face so that the statue looked as if it were crying. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I got the account a few days after I moved in to the foster home. My boy Malcolm took this one photo of me, look...” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They stood up to greet their guests, after the manner of Elves, even those who were accounted mighty kings. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

By the time Woodhull’s name disappeared from newspaper accounts and gossipy conversations, she was widely criticized for having set back the suffrage movement by at least twenty years. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Each of their names was carefully recorded in account books. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You might want to try logging back into your accounts now.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“All the reports have been signed. All accounts taken, all eyewitnesses questioned. It’s all there.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Jethro searched his memory for more details of the newspaper accounts. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

To his alarm Frodo became aware that the ridiculous young Took, encouraged by his success with the fat Mayor of Michel Delving, was now actually giving a comic account of Bilbo’s farewell party. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And how to account for the fact that Ruess apparently left the gulch with a heavy load of gear but without his pack animals? Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open up my own email account, then type out her name, her phone number, her email address, as well as Justin’s email and password. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

So we developed a software product called VTR— Virtual Tax Room—to enable these medium-size accounting firms to easily outsource tax returns.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I could see nothing that accounted for the meerkats’ fixed curios­ity, and I might have given up on solving the mystery had squeaking and barking not erupted at a pond nearby. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The final form is a client questionnaire that asks me to give a full accounting of my time in the United States. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

On top of all that Carl broke his leg in ’36 and spent his time hobbling up and down the rows, chasing after posts or buckets he couldn’t carry on account of his homemade crutches. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was talk of amending the constitution to take this apathy into account. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because theories are always being changed to account for new observations, they are never properly digested or simplified so that ordinary people can understand them. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not account for why Nasser had money with him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

If the relativist account of science were correct, every major paradigm shift ought to be accompanied by bitter disputes between competing intellectual communities: indeed it was Kuhn’s view that this is exactly what happens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Miss Preston yawned wide, likely on account of the late hour. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Lancelot was in one of his rare passions, possibly on account of the sufferings of his horse. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next fifteen were: —CO, would you call to check the money in my commissary account? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monday, January 14,1935 The next Monday I’m in a really grumpy mood on account of it’s baseball day for everyone except me. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But it’s on account of the cooch tent, not the booze.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She had decorated it herself, following the whims of her imagination and taking her customers’ taste into account. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d gotten it for a total steal on Craigslist because the lens cap was missing and the handle was broken, and even then it had wiped out my entire savings account. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“My name is Tiffany Halliday, and I am one of the trustees of this account. I would suggest you be truthful in responding to all of my questions. Now, who found the key?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When he died, his funeral was attended, in the words of one contemporary newspaper account, by “troops of people.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To account for the planets’ bizarre behavior, Ptolemy added epicycles to his planetary clockwork: little circles within circles could explain the backward, or retrograde, motion of the planets. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

We drove through College Park, a neighborhood that passes for Orlando’s historic district on account of how the houses were mostly built thirty whole years ago. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

In trying to grasp why Communists hated intellectuals, my mind was led back again to the accounts I had read of the Russian Revolution. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Janis was so easy to talk to, having so much to say herself; any awkwardness she smoothed over with accounts of all kinds of Chinese-student affairs. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn't fair to take him away from her on account of whatever her father might have done. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Ninety-three percent! And today I open savings account.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Stickup men were out to rob their bank accounts. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A reliance on artefacts will thus bias an account of ancient hunter-gatherer life. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That would account for why he was jealous of ye.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have been sent,” Antain continued in a mostly soft voice, “to tell you that the other Elders are ready. And all the populace waits along the route. Everyone is accounted for.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

So on Swift’s account the new science is both totally impractical and at the same time obsessed with practicality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The morning ritual went on, each worker accepting his portion from Ranofer and carrying it to the courtyard to begin his task, while the scribe kept strict account of every grain. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Kneeling near the lamp, Ash pulled out volumes on history and trade regulations, old account books, and a small, cloth-bound journal written in a fine hand. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He drew maps as well, see . . ." "Maybe you could write an account of our ranging, Sam." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But even so, if the transformation is a coordinated, integrated physiologic process in its initial, local stages, there is still that permanent vanishing of consciousness to be accounted for. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Burnham had believed that he might best serve his country by placing all of the work exclusively with Eastern architects,” Sullivan wrote; “solely, he averred, on account of their surpassing culture.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Each of them, by all accounts, makes only enough of its own materials to get along on, and the rest must come from me. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'd hate to have the poor child lose her pearls on account of me." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I trust I need hardly underline the extent of the discomfort I suffered tonight on account of the unfortunate misunder-standing concerning my person. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I have listened to accounts by such travelers in which every road number was remembered, every mileage recalled, and every little countryside discovered. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rang the bell, for I wanted a candle; and I wanted, too, to get an account of this visitant. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

According to most accounts, he was born in the sixth century BC on Samos, a Greek island off the coast of Turkey famed lor a temple to Hera and for really good wine. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“It would account for any of the wounds.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tune your television to any channel it doesn’t receive, and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

So it will be until the Great Recorder sums me up and closes my ledger account with a balance to profit or loss. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

In Sunday school Rex Minton said we better not go to the Congo on account of the cannibal natives would boil us in a pot and eat us up. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Desperate for money, he wrote The American Black Chamber, a sensational account of his exploits there. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

That led me to Metro Barber Shop Supplies who had a barbershop account under the name of Gordons Barber Shop on Wentworth Street in the Bronx. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I could have cost us our lives on account of my carelessness. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She was “very plump,” by one account, and “full of life.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Kamaswami talked to him about his business, showed him goods and warehouses and accounts. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madison did need to come up with at least three votes on assumption—here Jefferson's account is accurate—and eventually four members switched their votes, all of them congressmen from districts bordering on the Potomac. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

At night, he couldn’t sleep on account of the pain, and he would wake up at three o’clock in the morning, and get out of bed, and rummage around the house, looking for something. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course there were massive accounting problems in calculating the different state debts, not the least of the difficulties being sloppy records kept by several southern states, with Virginia topping the list for administrative disarray. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He'd written me this note asking me to stop by and say good-by before vacation started, on account of I wasn't coming back. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Equation 19 fixed the longitude position of the satellite at time T. Equation A3 accounted for errors in longitude. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

You worm your way into one account, then branch out to their friends, then their friends, and eventually, you’re able to track the location of any player in New York City. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Folks in Cold Sassy will have a good time talkin’, but if you go on off to Texas, why, you won’t have to put up with nothin’ on account of it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

There are, of course, other ways to account for the songs of whales. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Look at the battle of Malmesbury, which was given up on account of bad weather. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw the will, sir. After the lawyer wrote it, Miss Mary had me read it out loud on account of her eyes being bad.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mansion by any account, three stories and all gables and massive windows—many of them broken now—and fancy brickwork. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Finally, the account page loads on my screen. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She’d have to account for the broken glass in any case; but Rita would get surly if she had to cook a second breakfast. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He skipped some years or forgot or decided according to some personal accounting of grievance that the plantation was undeserving. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

So I give her Dad's name and the home number, and then she wants our Sears charge account number. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we felt compelled to account for these, we would have to invent explanations that would of necessity be false. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t quite work, on account of him being taller than me. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z