| 单词 | scale |
| 例句 | Each of those factors, in turn, is evaluated on a 15-point scale. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z On a larger scale, to a more intense degree, of course, but I remember the quality of the pain. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Nathan went to him and pressed his thumbs into either side of Pond’s scaled head and massaged. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He skirts by the orange plastic barrier, then jumps toward the fence, like he’s going to scale it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z It looked like the boys were teaching Ess how to scale a fish, with a knife that glinted in the sun. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Bail was another example of the sliding scale of apartheid: £250 for whites; £100 for Indians; and £25 for Africans and Coloureds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There are basically two possible whole tone scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z One of the first things we did together was scale the Ferris wheel, but that time it was me, not him, who compelled us to climb higher. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z This is like one million on the flying-monkey scale for her. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z "A billion stars going supernova, death on a cosmic scale. This is Kurnugi, Sik. This is where you go when it all ends." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z To get down to the scale of atoms, you would need to take each one of those micron slices and shave it into ten thousand finer widths. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z You felt you were living in the wrong scale. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The boat crew landed the scales and a money chest, and carried them to the square. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Long-range planning and organization on a national scale are obviously essential. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He only finds one chipped plate and a spoon, so we sit together on the couch and try to pull apart some slivers, careful not to cut our fingers on the leftover scales or bones. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z It had been wrought to look like blue-green scales, giving way to a shimmering chiffon fan. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “A new scale,” Rick said, “will replace it. This has happened before.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z It was one of the draccus’ scales, smooth and black, roughly as big as my palm, and shaped like a teardrop. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z How could an able-bodied teenager allow his grandmother to scale a plum tree? Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Figure 4.10: All intervals in a whole tone scale are whole steps. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The shocking surreality of the citadel—the sheer size of the thing—played havoc with the mind’s sense of scale. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z As I step on the scale, Dad swings his racket and scores. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z I tried to put the scale back together as best I could, managing to at least fit all the parts back inside and pound the frame back into a rough semblance of its previous shape. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I remove the real scale from its hiding place in my closet and carry it back to the bathroom. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z If you can't name the scale notes in a key, you may find it difficult to predict whether a chord should be based on a sharp, flat, or natural note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Holly scaled the great staircase, ever vigilant for the giant manservant. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He had never entertained on such a large scale before and, worried that there would not be enough to drink, ran out at one point to buy another case of champagne just in case. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z And there are much longer time scales still. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z People at the bottom of the scale—with an IQ below 70—are considered mentally disabled. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But what country is at the other end of the power distance scale? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z David’s adultety with Bathsheba weighed less on history’s scales, for instance, than the positive fact of David’s killing Goliath. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z With almost a dozen immortal emperors jostling for position, high-level Inka society was characterized by ramose political intrigue of a scale that would have delighted the Medici. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He had abandoned his work at the scales and was now cutting out lines on the mirror. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Which was vaguely irritating to Humperdinck because, to tell the absolute truth, torture was never all that high on his scale of passions, and he would just as soon have disposed of Westley right then. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z There is no broad-based movement brewing to end mass incarceration and no advocacy effort that approaches in scale the fight to preserve affirmative action. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Quickly he scaled the tree to the artificial scrape and, fending off Frightful with one arm, he gently lay the eggs in the box. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z When sharps and flats are used, remember that the alteration is always from the scale of the chord root, not from the key signature. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z We began the lesson with my tortured scales, but he interrupted to put his arm around me, to demonstrate, he said, the proper position of my wrist. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z We did not scale the rod because we believed we could, we scaled it because we were terrified that we couldn’t. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Often the name of a scale simply reflects what it sounds like to the person using it, and the same name may be applied to different scales, or different names to the same scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Thoughts evaded me, hiding in the vast stretch of clinical whiteness to which I seemed connected only by a scale of receding grays. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The set of expected pitches for a piece of music can be arranged into a scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The woman lays a sheet of newspaper on the scale and pours on flour from a large bag. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z So it appears that while it is easier for a few high achievers to scale the summits of wealth, for many others it has become harder to move up from one economic class to another. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “This was a good school, ranked high on the national scale, and now our halls are filled with soldiers and people are treating us like criminals!” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Our next attempt at measuring thrust was a variation on the theme, this time using Mom’s bathroom scale. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Something she could hum in two minutes meant a whole week’s work before it was down in the notebook—after she had figured up the scale and the time and every note. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The unveiling in 1926 of a new opera by the last great Italian composer in the genre, Giacomo Puccini, could fairly be described as a media event on a global scale. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The black gun was beautiful, all gold inlay and ebony carved like dragon scales, but up close she could see how damaged it was: pitted and scratched, flecked with age and long-forgotten acts of violence. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Now control of the scale has become enormously complicated. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The Department’s all-out chemical war on the gypsy moth began on an ambitious scale. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z On a scale of one to ten on the “I'm done” meter, I'm at about fifty. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z It was the scale of the sleepy midnight jams. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z In Western culture, we predominantly use the major and minor scales. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z It was times like this that Grace wished she had grown up with a sibling, someone to balance the scales a bit. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Luke didn’t want to talk about the scale for another minute, let alone the next hour. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z And yet, that lifetime was a kind of scale model for what followed. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “As the galvanometer spot swung across the scale, indicating that protons of 1-MeV energy were reaching the collector,” Livingston recalled, “Lawrence literally danced around the room with glee.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “We didn’t know how to farm on that scale,” Drew told me, “and we needed a lot more land—fast.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Like any minor scale, dorian minor may start on any note, but like dorian mode, it is often illustrated as natural notes beginning on d. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Gey’s air freight shipping system worked fine for sending a few cells to colleagues here and there, but it was too expensive for shipping on a massive scale. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z All are immensely strong, with scales harder than titanium. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The scale of Beethoven’s seventh symphony was to be overtaken in a dramatic way, however, by the ambition of his ninth and final symphony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She brought the scale close to it and they snapped sharply together, making the same odd, ceramic ring again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z With the jackknife, she gutted them and scraped off some of their scales. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z In the spring of 1993, on the fortieth anniversary of the first ascent, a record fifteen expeditions, comprising 294 climbers, attempted to scale the peak from the Nepalese side. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Prof. Nemur said it was something that measured how intelligent you were— like a scale in the drugstore weighs pounds. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z He just walked over to his stand, raked his hair out of his eyes, took out his music and his trumpet, and began blowing scales. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z At Cape Coalwood, we clamped the scale to the underside of a plank that sat on two sawhorses. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “When you run the Voigt-Kampff scale up there, if one of the humans fails to pass it—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z So any scale with a flatted third and seventh can be called a Dorian scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “The scale has been adequate in your case,” he answered. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I solved my hating snakes by drawing their scales, tiny and silvery, overlapping and overlapping, until all I saw was how perfect they were. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z From somewhere came the vague impression of a huge machine gathering power with the walls, storing up energy for a mighty leap, throbbing its way up the scales of strength. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Any scale that uses only five notes within one octave is a pentatonic scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Dean rejected this audacious plan, in part because he was unconvinced that a second lab was needed at all, much less on Teller’s megalomaniacal scale. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The lady weighs the bananas on a rusted scale, nodding. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “This one’s easy to place on the scale. I can burn those germs right off.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z She drew out a mortar and pestle and began to grind seeds while Elnora tested the scale. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He played a scale softly, and then plucked at a string. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z At the opposite end of the scale is Guatemala. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Mack and the boys balanced on the scales of good and evil. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He walks back to Shauna’s side, and I stand over one of the Candor scales in the lobby, at a loss. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He looked up at the weight chart over the scale. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite these daunting conditions, the scale of the operation quickly grew into an enormous enterprise. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Anything is grand if it’s done on a large enough scale,” said Henry. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “And don’t worry about the scale. Got me?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Ending slavery was a challenge on the same gigantic scale as these earlier achievements. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Grandma set her scale down on the table. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Start with a silverback gorilla, remove the fur, add scales, and stick an extra pair of arms in the wrong places. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Lighter and darker scales wove geometric designs much like the diamond and mountain designs on the rugs that Nali used to weave. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Brahe’s observatory: the curved scale is a quadrant for measuring elevations that is built into the wall; inside it is a trompe I’oeil section of Brahe’s observatory, with a giant figure of Brahe himself. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And sleep, such sleep...deep and sweet and sound as I had not known for many nights; it claimed me even as I sat amid the rice husks and fish scales and drying salt. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z And the scale of tissue research is only getting bigger. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z We’d had to redo and scale it down when it turned out we didn’t have nearly enough green and black pieces. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Other cultures not only have different note names and different scales, they may even have different notes — different pitches — based on a different tuning system. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He’s forgotten that Justice incarnate is not only balancing the scales but also blindfolded. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the bathrooms and closets are built on a scale different from anything I’d ever encountered. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z As I step on the scale, shadows edge closer. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z As a sort of test, he had agreed to set up a cage with a few pairs of the rodents, imitating on a reduced scale the enterprise under consideration. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the most beautiful type of dragon, it has iridescent, pearly scales and glittering, multi-coloured, pupil-less eyes, hence its name. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the figures in the finely rendered first edition is one in which we see, to scale, the Sun and the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The easiest way to experiment on the Orff instruments is to begin with the pentatonic scale, a scale with only five pitches. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He had proved himself to the other men by how well he did at training, how he scaled the obstacles and shimmied up the rough rope, but he had made no friend. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z One pudgy 140-pound rider earned a place in reinsman legend by fooling a profoundly myopic clerk of scales by skewing the readout to register him at 110. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He shouted to the clerk of scales to hang on, raced to the bathroom, emerged a moment later with his pants still at half mast, and made weight. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “On a scale of one to ten, rate your current stress level.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The model is a miniature of the city she kneels within, and contains scale replicas of the hundreds of houses and shops and hotels within its walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I wanted to reach out and touch its back, which was covered in denticles, V-shaped scales that were like teeth all over the shark’s body. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z But there is a puzzling gap between the scale of the changes in policing and the size of the effect on places like Brownsville and East New York. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he turns his head slightly and I recognize him—that face, its geographic scale. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z In storybooks, they are usually blood-red, with shiny scales and sharp teeth. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Since the scales are the same, D sharp major and E flat major are also enharmonic keys. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z She had dozens of them, in various scales. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They threatened that they would pile Mount Pelion on Mount Ossa and scale the heights of heaven, as the Giants of old had piled Ossa on Pelion. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The red ribbon did make his hair look quite colorful, a little like the red lining around the scales of a black snake. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “The scale of optimism to pessimism. Any problem you got, you gotta look for a way to keep it low on the scale.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “We’re above a waterfall in the Dead Land. A bunch of rats are trying to scale the wall. A lot of us are hurt and we’re totally lost,” he said. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z For example, one class of scales that intrigues some composers is symmetrical scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “Something huge. It had scales. They felt like steel. Then it dove deep, and launched itself toward the surface. I could feel its hunger. It wanted to devour me.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Håkon pulled himself out and shook tiny diamonds of water off his scales. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z As the fire spread, his coat sleeves burned away, and his arms began to scale from the heat. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Even with a mommet and a hot fire for energy, I didn’t know if I could make it through the scales to hurt the thing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Up north, the gargantuan metropolis, the liberty movement, and the ingenuity of the colored community all converged to portray the true scale of the hunt. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “On a scale of one to ten, one being perfectly rational and reasonable and ten being absurd and certifiable.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z So that’s a twelve out of ten on the awkward scale. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Higherf' Her other hand clutched at his scales, her fingers scrabbling for purchase. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the mirror of the bright shield he could see them clearly, creatures with great wings and bodies covered with golden scales and hair a mass of twisting snakes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Multicolored tattoos—of eight-pointed stars, lush-leafed vines, a hammer and anvil, a bird, a woman's eyes, scales—run from his wrists up his arms and into a black leather jerkin. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Some had scales like fish, and they slipped beneath still pools. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Though she did not know how to spell scale, she knew where the election would be decided. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But new scales of achievement, for example the Voigt-Kampff Empathy Test, had emerged as criteria by which to judge. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z It twisted and turned gracefully, a rectangular dance with surprises in scale and mood. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z One knight wore an intricate suit of white enameled scales, brilliant as a field of new-fallen snow, with silver chasings and clasps that glittered in the sun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She figured he lost scales all the time, and if she could sell them for a decent amount of money, she’d be able to pay the taxes. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z We seldom ate fish and then only those that had scales and spines. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore lambskin breeches soft with long use, and a sleeveless jerkin armored in bronze scales. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He spoke rapidly to his son: “Telemakhos, one of the serving women is tipping the scales against us in this fight, or maybe Melanthios.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They crawl under obstacles, do push-ups, scale ropes suspended from the ceiling—one hundred children passing sleek and interchangeable in their white uniforms like livestock before the eyes of the examiners. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I played my fifths and my scales, which, lapping gently upon the bulwarks of the ships we passed, drew sailors to the rails as we rowed on. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z This morning we all took turns on the scale. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Ernest equipped the garage with bunk beds and a kitchenette for Chromatic technicians, and soon doubled its size to accommodate a full- scale electronics shop. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The snarl grew louder and began to run up and down the scale, until it resembled the sound of a violin being tuned. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z He’d scaled one of the masts up to the crow’s nest and was still staring out through his spyglass. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Lady Constance’s voice rose steadily in pitch as she spoke, like an operatic soprano la-la-la-ing her way up the scale. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Stanton scaled back her work on temperance reform after 1842, when she gave birth to her first child, a boy, named Daniel Cady Stanton. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The scene was reminiscent of Birmingham, only on a smaller scale. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Stories of law violations are weighed on a different set of scales in the Black mind than in the white. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z As we passed the shipyard where the loftsmen raised the shape of a hull according to the measurements of a model, he taught me the secret of numerical proportions and scale. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Golden scales had been sewn onto the black velvet of his doublet and rang together softly with each step. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I don’t know whether Anna rearranged the cupboards, put the spaghetti in a different jar, moved the weighing scales from bottom left to bottom right. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z As I step on the scale, Cassie dreams. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Figure 5.25: To find out what to call a note added to a chord, count the notes of the scale named by the chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z For example, this scale would contain the same notes whether you start it on C or E. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z It was beautiful, and horrible too, with gleaming, rainbow-colored scales, and an eye like a marble beginning to dim even as she watched it. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z A vodyanoi rose up, his green hair matted with algae, tiny black scales clustering here and there on his sickly green skin. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z There is a curious inverse relationship in modern physics between the tininess of the thing being sought and the scale of facilities required to do the searching. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z A ring of white marble tiles in the center of the room form the symbol of Candor: a set of unbalanced scales, meant to symbolize the weighing of truth against lies. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z It bounced up and down in its tube, attacking the scale. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The pattern repeats at the eighth tone of a scale, the octave. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z It had all gone badly wrong in France, though no one knew on what kind of scale. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Pentatonic scales are often associated with eastern Asia, but many other music traditions also use them. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I scaled the back stairs two at a time. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He balanced pennies on top of my wrists so I would keep them still as I slowly played scales and arpeggios. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She scales the cellar steps and holds her breath and hears nothing for thirty heartbeats. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In the latter state, he seemed a flimsy dingy-blond youth of medium height, fleshless and perhaps sunken-chested; disrobing revealed that he was nothing of the sort, but, rather, an athlete constructed on a welterweight scale. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z In the first seconds of the firing, we were able to read the scale. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Kochu Maria, in a bad mood for no particular reason, was in the kitchen standing on her low stool savagely cleaning a large fish, working up a smelly blizzard of fish scales. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Such acts may seem insignificant given the scale of the evil in those years, but, in fact, they were anything but. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z In order to scale up to allow for the second reflection, Brunelleschi’s board would have needed to have an area of four square feet, not one. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z First, it was well known that working with scale models could often be misleading, because full-size machines often performed quite differently. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She remembered the dragon twisting beneath her, shuddering at the impacts, as she tried desperately to cling to his scaled back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z This module introduces several traditions that are very different from each other, but that are all based on modes or ragas rather than on scales: Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z On the same scale, Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, would be almost ten thousand miles away. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The octave was named by musicians who were more interested in how octaves are divided into scales, than in how their frequencies are related. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I drove Riptide between two of the creatures scales and managed to turn its attention on me. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z "There is nothing I would not do for your kiss, no mountain I would not scale, no river I would not ford, no desert I would not cross." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Rekh and the craftsmen had not yet arrived, but the storeroom door was open and the older apprentices were lining up in front of the scales. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “They change too, just on a different time scale. People always come and go.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z I scale an adjacent tree, locate the jabberjay, and take it out with an arrow. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I took the scale and walked over to one of the grey- stones. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Before anyone can stop me, I make a dash for an access ladder and begin to scale it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z But they had taken these beautiful rocks from deep within earth and they had laid them in a monstrous design, realizing destruction on a scale only they could have dreamed. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She held up the scale, looking at it closely. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She bemoaned her fate and challenged her stars as we hung our laundry or scrubbed scales from our fish. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Like earmuffs, I think, and Ms. Parker has us all play a scale together. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z He was the largest of her three, the fiercest, the wildest, with scales as black as night and eyes like pits of fire. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A good improviser, given the name of a chord, can quickly play not only the notes of the chord but also the scale implied by the chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z All of the scales above are natural minor scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I brought the scale and stone up in front of me until I could feel them tugging at each other. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In these traditions, the mode, like a scale, lists the notes that are used in a piece of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Because, on the scale of the very small, matter exhibits some irreducible roughness. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Wade was indeed the event that tipped the crime scale. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z These scales are often borrowed from Non-western traditions, but are then used in ways typical of Western music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z On the assumption that many general readers are as unmathematical as I am, I will use them sparingly, though they are occasionally unavoidable, not least in a chapter dealing with things on a cosmic scale. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Before Matthias could think to move, the bronze girl had vaulted over its back and dispatched the creature with two bright daggers wedged beneath the armor of its scales. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z They not only bring forth “great individuals and great deeds”—one traditional definition of history—by demanding human effort on a large scale, but they make these achievements memorable. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Silence, please!” the blonde casting assistant screams, bellowing over the buzz of mothers putting makeup on their girls; of boys singing scales; of every other child nervously retucking-in his or her shirt. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z A man leaning over a stone, scraping scales from another fish. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z For major and minor scales, there are seven notes; for pentatonic, five; for a chromatic scale, twelve. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z She couldn’t pat his horns or run her hands over his scales. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Figure 4.19: The interval patterns for major and natural minor scales are basically the same pattern starting at different points. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Its dark eyes shone red, and there was red on its scales. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “This is the chart of physical pain. I want you to tell me, right now, from a scale of zero to ten, are you experiencing any physical pain?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z It was as if he were looking in a trick mirror where he saw himself perfectly but on a smaller scale. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The hair on the back of his neck stood on end as something shimmery and scaled barreled past him with a snarl, sending waves of heat in its wake. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He remembered Jaime Lannister, a golden youth in scaled white armor, kneeling on the grass in front of the king's pavilion and making his vows to protect and defend King Aerys. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z If T has an instrument, have students guess which scale is being played. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Reducing a complex intelligence or the economy to numbers on a scale, whether I.Q. or GNP, is myopic at best and many times simply ludicrous. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was something familiar about that orange dragon, perhaps the way her scales reflected in the sun like fish scales glistening in the water, and those knowledgeable eyes, nodding as if she knew her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I took my trumpet out of its case, wiped it, and began playing scales. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z To have misunderstood it on this scale—five versus six million—seemed impossible. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z His scales were grey-black, catching the daylight like broken stone. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z On the small scale, it gives you the Yankees- Red Sox rivalry; on the large one, it gives you more questionable twentieth-century regimes than I care to mention. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The raven hops off by a mountainous pile of paper scales with a curling tail that looks as though it might once have been a dragon. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Its scales glimmered in the sun and flames licked from its mouth. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z One was the so- called wave-particle duality of nature at the infinitesimal scale: experiments sometimes showed light and electrons behaving like particles, and other times as waves. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z NOTE: Some music traditions, such as Indian and medieval European, use modes or ragas, which are not quite the same as scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Her whole life, I had watched her climb trees and scale stone walls in the courtyards in town with ease. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Though beautifully depicted, the insects in this book were not drawn to scale, and Hoefnagel had no sense of their origin. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Felicia watched as the glittering scales of her rented dress clicked and scattered on the marble floor. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, for the first time, Anna got a sense of the true, vast scale of the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Here, on a vast scale, I had an opportunity to observe Bigger in all of his moods, actions, haunts. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Figure 6.7: Compare the differences and similarities between the two major scales, and the differences and similarities between the two medieval church modes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The light of Quentyn’s torch washed over scales of dark green, the green of moss in the deep woods at dusk, just before the last light fades. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Back up the scale with the sandwiches: Mr. Talbert looked at me and said... he’d never learn to sit on the pot... of beans every Thursday night. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He’s enjoying this, I thought bitterly, he’s imagining himself Justice incarnate, balancing the scales. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Goyle gave a high-pitched scream of terror, threw the scales up into the air, and sprinted away, vanishing from sight long before the sound of the scales smashing had stopped echoing around the corridor. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Dany marveled at the smoothness of their scales, and the heat that poured off them, so palpable that on cold nights their whole bodies seemed to steam. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z This would be failure on a grand scale, even for me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Even if the fence isn’t electrified, even if I could scale it, how would I get over the top without being slashed to ribbons? Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Likewise, a six-foot man cannot be scaled up to thirty feet, Rabelais notwithstanding. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It would rate at least an hour on the lecture scale. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z The dragon’s scales shimmered and glistened; he was a gigantic mountain of luminous colors and light. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z There is basically only one chromatic scale; you can start it on any note, but the pitches will end up being the same as the pitches in any other chromatic scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The if part doesn’t have to come first, but the scales must stay in balance: He will spend too much if he shops alone. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z At first we thought that Dad was teasing us again, and that this was the other end of a scale—a house much better than the one he had bought. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The serpent’s body was as thick as a booster rocket, glinting with coppery scales. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Rewrite each scale from Figure 4.18 as an ascending harmonic minor scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z They hacked at chinks in the creature’s scales. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z In both, Indians worked on a very large scale, transforming huge swathes of the landscape for their own ends. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The vet assistant plopped him onto the scale and held her hands on either side of his shivering body without touching, trying to keep him in place. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He recorded what he saw and what he felt in equal amounts, as if he were balancing the great scales of observation and reflection. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z She understood which levers to pull inside and outside government to make an impact at the scale I envisioned. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Just like the term solfege which is made up of the syllables “sol” and “fa,” sargam is comprised of the syllables sa re and ga, the first three pitches of the Indian scale. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “Bony ones, old ones, ones with jaws of massive teeth, some with fins or fangs or scales.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “Year after year it sheds its skin, then eats it, keeping the iron in its system. After two hundred years ...” I tapped the scale against the stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Walls were never any problem for him, not so long as his arms worked, and he quickly scaled this one and hurried back through the quiet streets to Falkbridge’s house. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z And neither of us had recognized what each other harbored under the skin—deep inside him, the scaled shadow of a dragon; inside me, two souls entwined. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Though I didn’t tell them the entire truth about why I was interested in the Chandrian, I did tell them the whole story, and showed them the scale. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The dragon coiled in front of a fireplace, the flames lighting its ruby scales. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Seeing the scale, seeing the satellite imagery make it real. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z And yes, it could be a solidarity thing, like some kind of Kinsey scale Sorting Hat. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z When the propellant hissed down to completion, Mom’s bathroom scale was scattered all over the pad. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was slick against his skin like the scales of a snake, too cold. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “The scale of the whole thing is more and more tremendous as the work proceeds,” McKim wrote to Richard Hunt. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Delores only taught her about the different scales, the major and minor chords, the values of the notes, and such beginning rules as those. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Y’all come on,” Wash called as he scaled the bank in a few steps. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It was a liberal firm and one of the few that charged Africans on a reasonable scale. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I developed an eye for measuring how full a silver-looking ladle of flour, mash, meal, sugar or com had to be to push the scale indicator over to eight ounces or one pound. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She tapped the broken scales with her wand and said, “Reparo.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Like the Richter scale, the proposed index would be logarithmic, so what follows is a little detour to review for the innumerate those dreaded monsters from high school algebra: logarithms. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a little scale of 0-10 on a sheet in front of her. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z It also shows us chaotic violence on a scale hitherto undreamed of. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though the war weighed on everyone’s mind, the full scale of it still surprised people. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z As he greeted some ancient melon vendors who had known their grandfather, Liyana’s eyes fell on a young man, who appeared to be a dwarf, weighing bananas on an old-fashioned hanging scale. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Terrance Randall provided a model for a mind that could conceive of North Carolina’s new system, but the scale of the violence was hard to settle in her head. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Atoms, in other words, exist on a scale of minuteness of another order altogether. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “A scale from the dragon that burned you, as they say.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z By 1954, after some preliminary field trials on Florida islands, Dr. Knipling was ready for a full- scale test of his theory. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was just an observation, but it tipped the scales, and Rufino stopped to offer the boy a ride. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Their hair was woven into an intricate pattern, more like the scales of fish than like any style Nhamo had seen. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But the new scale, the more modern analytical device, had been there already; no lag had existed. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Weighing loss of such scale, one naturally wants to identify and denounce the responsible party. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z My eyes close tight as my voice climbs the scale, reaching the high G like it’s nothing. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z With an Australian accent Finch tells them, “We’re here from Perth. We’ve come all this way to see the highest peak in Indiana. Is it all right if we scale the summit?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z As Mrs. Lloyd pulled the bag of candy off the scale, the jangly bell rang over the shop door and stopped abruptly as the door slammed against the inside wall. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z With luck, our own situation might be similar, on a larger scale. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned his back, contempt in every line of his body as he flicked the scales from his pine cone out into the dark. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Half a dozen Thenns in bronze scale armor stood clustered round one cellar stair, watching sullenly and making no attempt to join the others. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The following pentatonic scale, for example, is not simply another transposition of the "black key" pentatonic scale; the pattern of intervals between the notes is different. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Then I looked around the beach and saw, drawn up in ranks, regiment after regiment of strange, silent, scaled soldiers, but I paid little attention to them. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z To this he had a simple answer: “That, in fact, is exactly what it was . . . The only way in which a broad program could be launched rapidly and on an adequate scale.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Scarlet with shame, he dodged around the Second Craftsman’s workbench and hurried to the scales. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I did see what Anatole meant about the snakes and hens too close together in a place like that: you could trace the belly scales of hate, and come up howling. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Just cause she had scales don’t mean she wasn’t fry. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The two tumbled into the ruins, tearing out chunks of feathers, fur, and scales. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Luke always pictured them with monster scales and fierce claws because of the number of times he'd been cautioned, “You don’t want the Willikers to see you.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Darwin has hunted rheas in Patagonia, studied owls outside Buenos Aires, and scaled a waterfall in Tahiti. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I remember hearing the sudden barking of the dogs and a lot of queer sounds, like praying on a very tumultuous scale, from Mr. Renfield’s room, which is somewhere under this. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Label the half steps and whole steps of the A minor scale. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Then several scales, glittering from the moon sands below, fell off his green body. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I watched him scale Grandma’s back fence in his suit. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z In the Theorem, this is the difference in outgoingness between two people calculated on a scale that goes from 0 to 5. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z It also offered him a chance to preside over a prison, just as his father had, although on a far larger scale. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z When he determined no one was around, he peeked at the scale again. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z As I step on the scale, Mom slices open a stranger. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z In these and other modal traditions, the rules for constructing a piece of music are quite different than the rules for music that is based on a scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Some of the scales were dented, pitted, and cracked; others were missing entirely, revealing long, crooked scars in the bare skin beneath. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Some New Guineans did become infected, but not on the massive scale that killed off most of the native peoples of Australia and the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She stooped down, and the moment she fastened its worn straps under his scaled belly and tightened them, she relaxed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I do a few scales, some basic review pieces, then jump full force into my sonatina recital piece. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “On a scale of one to ten, ten being the most stressful, rate your current stress level.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He now envisioned a cyclotron with a 4,500-ton magnet and pole faces of 184 inches, a scale that took away the breath of even Rad Lab veterans. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z After 8 beats, they can play a “G” which is the V or dominant of the C scale in order to create another goal. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I had wax, and this scale would make as good a link as any hair. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Her gloomy dignity, the weight of her name, the convincing vehemence of her declaration made the scale of justice hesitate for a moment. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The foliage has hidden the wheel from sight, so I scale a tree with rubbery limbs to get a better view. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Anya pulled the scale from her dress pocket and said, “Do you want to buy this?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “That’s all very well, but how are we going to scale the wall into the Abbey grounds? If Cluny has captured Redwall, he’s bound to have sentries posted upon the ramparts.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z So, the highest of all our complex technologies in the hardest of our sciences will soon be engaged, full scale, in what is essentially biologic research—and with some aspects of social science, at that. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I weighed myself on the big scale in the Hankow Dispensary and found that I was as skinny as ever. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There are two other kinds of minor scales that are commonly used, both of which include notes that are not in the key signature. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z As Ray sat one of the bins onto a scale, I peered inside. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z It was a museum used for propaganda displays of various kinds—scale models of rocket bombs and Floating Fortresses, waxwork tableaux illustrating enemy atrocities, and the like. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z "It's actually not okay on, like, the grandest possible scale. I guess the thing is that I'm a little confused." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Listen to the difference between the C major, D major, and B flat major scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Looking closer, Taran saw not all were dwarfs; some were tall, slender, with white robes; others were covered with glistening scales, like fish; still others fluttered large, delicate wings. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Then he asked him to sing some scales—up, down, up again. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z On the jerk scale, he’s not much lower than Link. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z As her friends came up to murmur their condolences they would feel awed by the scale of her tragedy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The full scale of World War II still surprises people today. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He suggested that when elements were arranged by weight they appeared to repeat certain properties–in a sense to harmonize–at every eighth place along the scale. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “How hard are these things to beat? On a scale of one to we’re-burnt-toast-on-a-greasy-skillet?” asked Seven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The Rad Lab was starting to operate on an industrial scale, with graduate students working in shifts to keep the cyclotron running round the clock. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The hero leapt onto his back and drove the iron spearpoint down at the base of the dragon’s long scaled neck. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The largest of her three was shiny black, his scales slashed with streaks of vivid scarlet to match his wings and horns. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But there does not seem to be any need for all those other galaxies, nor for the universe to be so uniform and similar in every direction on the large scale. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I doubted I had taken a step which sank instead of raising me in the scale of social existence. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He had a medal struck which bore the words ‘Que sçay-jei—What do I know?’—over the image of a pair of scales. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z If the Web was devastatingly efficient at displaying maps on a screen, it needed some fine-tuning when it came to capturing the scale and feel of a place. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “That scale is mostly iron, unless I miss my guess. How can I make that more dramatic than it already is?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In both the chromatic and the whole tone scales, all the intervals are the same. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The other: “A five? Man, she so big, she breaks the scale.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I couldn’t even make out the thing’s face, just a flash of teeth and scales. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Further west, the same burning occurred, but on even grander scale. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And it is happening on a wider scale. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But when asked to scale a wall a foot taller than her five-foot-seven frame, she made it on the second try. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z It was not until then, too late, that I saw my new clothes— and the spots of bloods, flecks of fish scales, bits of feather and mud. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Dozens of agents scale the walls to meet them head on. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z As the draccus worked its jaw, trying to swallow the sticky mass of resin, I fumbled in my travelsack for the heavy black scale, then brought the loden-stone out from my cloak. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The paneling of this office once breathed the humid air of a Congolese forest, gave shelter to life, felt the scales of snake belly on its branches. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In ancient Greece, Pythagoras was remembered for a different invention: the musical scale. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He came alone, wearing his silver sword and haubergeon of black iron scales. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She would soak up their trills and scales, their perfect pitches. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “My mama brought me,” Tess said, passing the scale to Genie. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z His horns were gold as well, and the scales that ran down his back from head to tail. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He said that he needed this information because he was going to free the slaves, on a large scale. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z On the scale of difficulty seen in the math section of a typical college entrance exam, the problem probably would rank around the middle. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Being a truck, I stopped, only to be waved on over the scales. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the fact that the universe is so uniform and homogeneous on a large scale, it contains local irregularities, such as stars and galaxies. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In order to be familiar with the particular notes that a piece of music is likely to use, musicians study scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Anya clung to him and pressed her face against his warm scales. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Comparing this scale to the natural minor scale makes it easy to see why the dorian mode sounds minor; only one note is different. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The scales there were just as tough as those along a dragon’s back and flanks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Chester flexed his legs, and as quickly as you could run your fingers up the strings of a harp, he had played the whole scale. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The equation involved a certain amount of fanciful math, but there was no disputing that the cyclotron was beginning to pay its way as a producer of radioactive isotopes on an industrial scale. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For sheer grandeur, scale, and intimidation value, I doubt if any corporate orientation exceeds that of Wal-Mart. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of this, most traditional and popular Western music uses major or minor scales rather than the chromatic or whole tone scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The scale stood in the corner of the room, like a silent heckler. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The scale survived the first few impacts, but then we heard a big sproinggg and it flew apart. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Like the fertilizer in the mail slot on a much larger scale. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z A scale attached to the rig gave the weight of the animal: 190 pounds. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Due to my general aversion to machines and a few pronounced episodes of screaming, I was labeled a technophobe, a term that ranks fairly low on my scale of fightin’ words. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He was also growing bald for a dragon: He was so old that the scales at the top of his head had begun to flake off and expose the soft, golden skin beneath. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z They called the scale “the Oracle,” and they lived in slavery to it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone knocks on my bedroom door, but I don’t pull my eyes away from the scales I’m painting onto the half dragon. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z "Chops," Julian said, "is to magic what doing scales is to a chanteuse. Without it you cannot be a magician, with it alone you cannot be an artist." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z But progress on the issue of women’s suffrage on a national scale was moving at a painfully slow pace. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Lawrence’s experience as an impresario of Big Science gave him an instinctive grasp of how to scale up a process from prototype to production. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Within the “symphony of voices,” Kepler believed that the speed of each planet corresponds to certain notes in the Latinate musical scale popular in his day—do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Sitting at Robbie’s upright piano, I was quick to pick up the scales—that osmosis thing was real—and I threw myself into filling out the sight-reading work sheets she gave me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z At that scale, with families of five and six people living off a farm the size of two hotel rooms, agriculture changes dramatically. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She looked terrified at the sight of the approaching sixth years and dropped the heavy brass scales she was carrying. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z From that time on one could search for days among the orange groves without finding a single scale insect. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z On a map of the United States it is an incidental smudge of green, but on foot the scale of it is colossal. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Ten feet higher and as far as they could see the muttering wall advanced before the braced-up waters like a road crusher on a cosmic scale. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Henry stares at him silently, and Alex can see the scales balancing in his head. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He watched, fascinated, as his father gently lifted one and then the other to the scale and weighed them. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z A huge arm and shoulder, with a dark skin of greenish scales, was thrust through the widening gap. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z So it is with space-time: on a very small scale it is tendimensional and highly curved, but on bigger scales you don’t see the curvature or the extra dimensions. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She was feeling awfully smart when she grasped the scale and sat up, but she stopped when she saw her mother. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “You know. Give me the Boneli test or that empathy scale you have. To see about me.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “Once a week. I’m fine. I don’t need to step on your scales.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Right where she looked, a fish leapt up, rainbow iridescence shimmering on its scales. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It had glass eyes and hard cast-iron scales down its back. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Others, perhaps more idealistic, maintain that police supervision on an increased scale is driving the houses out of existence. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z What luck! he was thinking as he led the way to the scales. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z It would be an interesting and reflective way to reacquaint myself with the scale and beauty of my native land after nearly twenty years of living abroad. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z His thoughts drifted to what Minho had told him at dinner about the size and scale of the Maze. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z After you die, your sins will be put on one side of a scale, and Ma’at’s feather will be put on the other.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Let’s start over. First, answer this question: on a scale of one to ten, how much do you like living here?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z A long tradition of using scales in particular ways has trained listeners to expect certain things from a piece of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I must not think too much of this, or I may be tempted; a good cause might turn the scale with me, for may not I too be of an exceptional brain, congenitally? Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The most familiar pentatonic scales are used in much of the music of eastern Asia. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “The draccus eats the rocks and slowly they get ground down in its gizzard. The metal slowly filters into the bones and scales.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Adding a G sharp does raise the fourth degree of the scale by one half step, just as predicted in step 2. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Since they usually ignore the tuning, melodic forms, and other aesthetic principles of the traditions that they are borrowed from, such uses of "exotic" scales should not be considered accurate representations of those traditions. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Mrs. Walton begins to play the scales again—this time, she says, in the key of G. I suck in a large breath and pray to baby Jesus. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z There are two men filling bags with coal and turf and weighing them on the great iron scale, a hundredweight in each bag. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z So the best answer we can give to our question depends on how high a particle energy we have at our disposal, because this determines on how small a length scale we can look. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked at the improbable scales on the dolphins and on the Triton’s thighs, and then toward the house. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “On a scale of one to ten, how bad do I look? Ten being burn your clothes.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z But portly and overfed though she was from living in the comfort of a zoo, even so she tipped the scales at barely 110 pounds. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z A whole tone scale, a scale made only of whole steps, sounds very different from a chromatic scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z In addition, the larger scale of state warfare made more captives available. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the centigrade scale, zero degrees is the freezing point of water. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, however, Mr. Sweeney had noticed that a city-wide infestation of the cottony maple scale was worse after the spraying recommended by “the books and the authorities” than it had been before. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They were in harmony with it, but far higher up the scale: cold, tingling, silvery voices. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z They were raised on a grand scale, living in a lavish home with maids and servants catering to their every whim. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z There was little experience of field use for either, and no one knew what their effects would be on wild birds, fishes, or mammals when applied on a massive scale. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They were relics of the Targaryens, black steel with dragon scales cresting their helms, now dusty and forgotten. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z His body was reptilian and sinewed, entirely adorned by iridescent scales that seemed to hold a thousand colors captive each time he moved. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z On the Ryan Dean West Stimulus-Satisfaction scale of things, it was without a doubt one of the best physical sensations of my entire, pathetic life. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Something glittered in the lantern light, and when Anya inspected further, she saw a broad red scale stuck to a piece of wood. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Turning the corner, Francie saw that both doors were hooked back hospitably and she imagined that the large, bland dial of the swinging scale blinked a welcome. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The stylistic parting of ways that started to become evident in the early twentieth century, though, was on an unprecedented scale. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The shifting lamplight limned their stony scales, and shimmering motes of jade and scarlet and gold swam in the air around them, like courtiers around a king. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He would have felt sorry, sure, would even have put an offering on the Scavenge God’s scale to help her get on to whatever afterlife she believed in. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He spent many hours in the hot room watching how the hard sheets of metal, worked by the colonel with the inconceivable patience of disillusionment, were slowly being converted into golden scales. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Actually, I don’t really mind, considering he’s officially been moved down from orange to yellow on the threat-to-my-sanity scale. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Figure 1.31: The E flat major and D sharp major scales sound the same on the piano, although they look very different. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The scale of their constructions and their agriculture infrastructure required sophisticated civic and social organization. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The scale flashed in the sunlight, catching the sunshine and staining it crimson. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z In a June 2, 1891, letter to Hunt, he wrote, “We are at a dead standstill waiting for your scale drawings. Can’t we have them as they are, and finish here?” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z While he piled the stuff on to the scale, Francie blinked, adjusting her eyes to the darkness and was aware of the mossy air and the odor of wetted rags. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A horseman with silver scales afire in the sun shouted from the scroll in his hands, his words opening a red gap in his black beard. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The result is a natural experiment on a grand scale. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The rats could not see him and ran over his scales in the dark. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z “You will find it in a display case next to the original Winkle and Grimble scale model. Let me give you that location.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “It’s like this,” he says, pointing out the woman with her scales and sword, La Justice inscribed below her feet. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Sheriff Dean caught sight of Jinx’s catfish still tipping the scale at ten pounds. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The pentatonic scale may be major or minor. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Figure 4.47: The chromatic scale includes all the pitches normally found in Western music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The result is a scale that plays all the notes easily available on most instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The map dramatically shows the reduction in Indigenous lands, but its scale does not allow the “today” map to accurately depict all existing tribal offices and land holdings across the country. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z In the sun, the fish scales on the seafood vendors’ arms and faces sparkle and shimmer, reflecting the sunlight. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was gawking at two sea serpents—thirty-foot-long monsters with glowing blue scales and jaws that could have bitten a whale shark in half. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They had managed to drive off a raiding party that was trying to scale the wall. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z And when any one man tries to tip the scales too far, they always bounce back. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Think of if as a tiny set of scales. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The harmony is in meltdown because Wagner has used chromaticism, the promiscuous use of all the subdivisions in the scale, to put you in an unsettling place. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But the notes of the two scales will have different names, the scales will look very different when written, and musicians may think of them as being different. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z For he is very wise, and weighs all things to a nicety in the scales of his malice. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z If it was, speed would be of the essence, and funding on a heroic scale would flow. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The San Francisco earthquake of 1906, for comparison, measured an estimated 7.8 on the Richter scale and lasted less than thirty seconds. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Like a scale, each mode also has a home note, where the melody is expected to end. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z During danger she fanned out her dragon claws and riffled her red sequin scales and unfolded her coiling green stripes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z So the universe does seem to be roughly the same in every direction, provided one views it on a large scale compared to the distance between galaxies, and ignores the differences on small scales. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z However, on the small scales of atoms and molecules, electromagnetic forces dominate. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Rewrite each scale from Figure 4.18 as an ascending and descending melodic minor scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Mr. Smeath is stuck to her back like an asparagus beetle, grinning like a maniac; both of them have shiny brown insect wings, done to scale and meticulously painted. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He would not enter the business on a large scale, he said, unless he could go first-class, with the very best trainer. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But Adams, who would ride back to the scales sporting angry welts, certainly felt it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z His goal was to demonstrate that electromagnetic separation could produce enriched uranium on an industrial scale. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Before us is the Cosmos on the grandest scale we know. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And Russia would represent the kind of opportunity Paul and Jim had hoped for when they’d taken on Peru: a chance to affect health policy for the poor on a global scale. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The black scales seemed to glow as they drank the heat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Actually, it’s far, far worse than that because AT maps—for reasons that bewilder me beyond speculation—provide less detail than even their meager scale allows. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Now write a whole tone scale beginning on an a flat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z When the if side of the scale is in the present tense, the other side calls for will. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I grabbed a long stick from the fire, its end glowing with orange heat scales, and waited. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The sun caught the sparkle in the fish’s scales. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The whip annoyed him more than it hurt him, she had come to see; his scales had grown harder than horn. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z About a hundred more goblins were sitting on high stools behind a long counter, scribbling in large ledgers, weighing coins in brass scales, examining precious stones through eyeglasses. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z On the night of May 17 he scaled the grandstand and slid out onto the roof. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z This sameness is not true for musical traditions that use modes instead of scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z A year later he became director of WHO’s HIV/AIDS department, focusing on initiatives to help poor countries scale up their treatment, prevention, and care programs. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z She thought of what the priest said about Purgatory and figured it must be like the airshaft bottom only on a larger scale. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Each building was more lovely, more elaborate than the last, and all were immense—fantastic things on a scale never before attempted. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She had on a spangled top that sparkled like fish scales. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Was this some kind of joke or did things balance so that if one went too far in one direction an automatic slide moved on the scale and the balance was re-established? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He clears his throat and begins: “A weather event that measured 6.5 on the Richter scale would be a/an: A. Tornado B. Hurricane C. Earthquake D. Tsunami.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The chord built on the seventh degree of the scale is a diminished chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z What note of each scale would have to be changed in order to make v major? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z It was like a delicately balanced scale that needed only the tiniest push to tip it one way or the other. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z I drifted into a dream in which I climbed a tall tree whose lower branches disappeared the moment I scaled the higher ones. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I was learning about shades of black in America, and about how your skin tone determines where you stand on the beauty scale. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The recruits scale walls; they run wind sprint after wind sprint. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z This new phase of research required the irradiation of uranium on a heroic scale, with the goal of producing enough 94 to perform the necessary experiments. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Herr Sauer plays more scales, but what I reached easily yesterday is strained and nasal today. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z You may want to experiment with some of the many scales possible. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Supernova shock waves may have contributed to accretions of matter at every scale. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Figure 6.2: You can continue this series of perfect fifths to get the rest of the notes of a chromatic scale; the series would continue F sharp, C sharp, and so on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Inside I found things long forgotten: my mother fitting words together for a song, diction for the stage, three recipes for tea to calm nerves and promote sleep, finger scales for the lute. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Only a third of one percent of Soviet women attended universities at this time, so the education level of many of Marina’s recruits was off the scale by ordinary standards. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z But by then we may have developed a better scale.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z We gathered them with flying fingers and greedy hearts and bore them away in triumph, with a glow at least as bright as the sun on those shining scales. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly his attention returns to the scale model of the neighborhood. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They vary somewhat, but most are on an abysmal scale of 1:100,000, which ludicrously compresses every kilometer of real world into a mere centimeter of map. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z "Under the sea, the birds have scales for feathers," he said, clang-a-langing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “But not drastic. On a scale of one to ten, it’s like a seven, I think.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I moved till the light was just so that I could see the flashing of the little fishes’ scales. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z He drafted plans, elegant plans, in eighth-, quarter-, and half-inch scale. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Tally had always thought of the city as huge, a whole world in itself, but the scale of everything out here was so much grander. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He lifts a set of dice from his scales, upsetting the balance. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Vietnamese scale the fourteen-foot wall of the US embassy In Saigon, trying to reach evacuation helicopters as the last of the Americans depart from Vietnam, 1975. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Sometimes I think there are scales in Heaven, and for every good thing that happens in your life, Heaven balances it with a bad thing. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “But if you both keep adding to your sides of the scale, increasing the weight on each side in turn,” Isobel says, watching the gently swaying scale, “won’t it break?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z But to fit these elements on to this wall he had to do sketches, draw converging lines, work out scales and foreshortening. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Chi-Boy walked the perimeter of the room before setting the candle down on a small round table in front of another empty fireplace, on a much smaller scale than those in the great room. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Somehow, they managed not to fall off as Arion scaled the cliffs, jumping from foothold to foothold with impossible speed and agility. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Four days later he again prodded Hunt: “The delay you are causing us by not forwarding scale drawings is embarrassing in the extreme.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Pink-enameled scales covered their torsos; on their heads were perched elongated helms complete with pointed steel beaks and crests of bobbing pink feathers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In front of one mound, like a one-eighth scale model of Stonehenge, was a ragged circle of wak’a: sacred stones. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Of all the developments in the Soviet Union, the method by which scores of backward peoples had been led to unity on a national scale was what had enthralled me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The scudding clouds did look a bit fishy, rippled into scales by a high- altitude wind. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He has never attempted anything on this scale, but there seems no good reason not to start off the game as strongly as possible. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Now it looked like he was growing, and his scales were pushing outward, making his shape look sharp and dangerous. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He imagined the committee gathered around a scale, shaking their heads. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z These tensions and animosities would brew and simmer for many decades, and eventually they would result in urban unrest on a grand scale in the twentieth century. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Soon blacks were gathered at Quinn Chapel, celebrating the first-ever wage scale in Chicago that gave equal pay to black and white waiters. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He assigned each of the twelve notes in the scale a different colour, based on Opticks, Sir Isaac Newton’s 1704 study of light, colour and diffraction. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But here in Aleppo, it’s on a much bigger scale. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Twenty cauldrons stood steaming between the wooden desks, on which stood brass scales and jars of ingredients. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The sun filtered through the trees and light reflected off the river like shiny scales, while we sat on the banks enjoying the peace and beauty of the place. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z He scaled a low wooden fence and dropped into scrubby brush. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z We positioned a mirror on the “derrick” so that we could read the scale with binoculars. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The white sun reflected off his bright orange scales and the glistening glorious light blinded us and filled us with the rapture true beauty brings. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Not that the Cliffs were impossible to scale; two men were known to have climbed them in the last century alone. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Mom always had this habit of asking me how something felt on a scale of one to ten. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Every morning, before Stuart dressed, Mrs. Little went into his room and weighed him on a small scale which was really meant for weighing letters. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z And we begin to sing up and down the scales. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Then they put it on the scale in the shop next door to the processing shed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Therefore, the German beer industry cannot profit from economies of scale. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some scales are loosely based on the music of other cultures, and are used when the composer wants to evoke the music of another place or time. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Georgetown’s students may not be as smart on an absolute scale as the students of Harvard. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Helen Luther once watched a rider step on a scale, only to see that he was over his horse’s assigned impost. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Figure 4.8: All intervals in a chromatic scale are half steps. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He had a small jeweler’s scale on the floor beside him along with tidy piles of gold and silver. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z There were all the sounds of a full- scale training maneuver. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Some kids were doing scales, some were getting their music arranged on their stands, but most were chatting and laughing. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Then, miraculously, the scales fell from the old woman’s eyes and she became young and beautiful. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There might as well have been an entry for dragon scales. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z That, coming on Wemmick’s letter and the morning’s busy preparation, turned the scale. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z My mind didn’t remember the Google map’s scale well enough. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “Anyway, a Story Box is a vessel for the magic of stories, right? It holds it, ready to bring them to life, much as an Anansesem would, only on a larger and grander scale.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “About nine o’clock on Wednesday,” Harper's Weekly reported, “a large party, disguised and armed, assailed the Hospital on two sides at the same time; one squad forced the gate, and the other scaled the wall.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z After the war the problem of gravitational collapse was largely forgotten as most scientists became caught up in what happens on the scale of the atom and its nucleus. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The riders wore scaled copper armor and snouted helms with copper tusks and long black silk plumes, and sat high on saddles inlaid with rubies and garnets. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Using her magnifying glass, she peered at their wings and discovered a series of scales overlapping in regular patterns, “like the feathers of multicolored chickens.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Probably no other agricultural program has been carried out on so large a scale as the dusting and spraying of millions of acres of land in southern United States to control the fire ant. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He wondered if the world at large could already see what he was seeing, a disaster mythical in scale and severity. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I have stopped my scales and am just staring at him, the bow and viola hanging at my side. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z We are tiny figures, pointing at wonders, provided for scale, no lives of our own, surveying the landscape that has engulfed us all. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z No mortal man could scale it, nor so much as land there, not with twenty hands and feet, so sheer the cliffs are—as of polished stone. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z By gently rubbing a handful of sand up and down my arm, I clean off the rest of the scales, revealing fresh new skin underneath. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Even if the knights had little wish to kill each other on the grand scale, there was no reason why they should not kill the serfs. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Some, like pentatonic and octatonic scales, have fewer or more notes per octave, but many have seven tones, just as a major scale does. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z It was a scale from one to ten, where one equals “mild tremor” and ten equals “erupting volcano.” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z The high red sandstone walls were far too lofty to be scaled by any normal creature. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z As the apostle of building the biggest cyclotrons that technology and funding could produce, Ernest Lawrence was not shy about envisioning the new Berkeley cyclotron being funded by William Crocker’s donation on a grand scale. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He found the scale, filled with stubbed-out cigar butts, in the back room. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “I do not believe it is an exact comparison,” Marco says, and the scales vanish. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Most consisted of two squadrons of ten aircraft apiece; Marina Raskova’s three female regiments were not going to change the outcome of an air war on this scale. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z One of the most useful of these is the scale based on the dorian mode, which is often called the dorian minor, since it has a basically minor sound. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “On a scale of one to ten, how upset did they sound?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z It had high sides, like the walls of his playpen downstairs, but he was convinced that he could scale it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z His skin covered in what looked like faint purple scales. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Alternate colors for each row and place the scales in a brick pattern. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Two balanced brass plates made up the scales. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z When Fyrian closed his eyes he felt as though he could touch each buttery-smooth scale on her hide, each razor-sharp spike. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The European Community had already begun to scale back sanctions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The scale and the concrete pad was in its way, so all it could do was push. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Notice that the pattern for minor scales overlaps the pattern for major scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Dragons were outlawed here, and if she sold too many scales, people would begin to wonder where she was getting them. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z At some time in the past Yellowstone must have blown up with a violence far beyond the scale of anything known to humans. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The little screen near the top makes it look like a scale. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I stand, suddenly realizing I could totally climb the fire escape that scales the side of the warehouse. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z It thrashed hard at the end of the line, its scales lit by the sun. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The country that scores highest on the individualism end of that scale is the United States. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He reached for the scale, then pulled his hand back. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “Now it’s going to be scaled back. There will be fewer opportunities for kids to do things that are not math, science, or English.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z You also quickly realize that none of the maps you have ever seen of the solar system were remotely drawn to scale. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The reformation of scales and harmonies that he introduced offered a daringly new palette of aural possibilities. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z This is engineering on a scale so far unprecedented on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Ivan cupped the scale in his hands, also checking for intruders. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “The observance of these standards,” Veblen wrote, “in some degree of approximation, becomes incumbent upon all classes lower in the scale.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z When this happens, enharmonically spelled notes, scales, intervals, and chords, may not only be theoretically different. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z On this scale, Mount St. Helens’s would be no more than a pea. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The dragon coiled before them, ruby scales shiny with water. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The result is that each raga is a collection of melodic scales, phrases, motifs, and ornaments, that may be used together to construct music in that raga. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Now there were only trees, their gray-brown trunks scaled with lichen, and every so often the sound of a squirrel or rabbit bounding through the underbrush. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He was road and muscular on a small scale and had a magnificently curled silver mustache on his crinkled face. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The bay had scales, like the fish beneath. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He wore a vest of metal scale armor and a cloak of what appeared to be bear pelt. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z She used her hands to mimic a scale. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z As tiring as it was, he’d loved his job for what it taught him about Chicago’s complex political system and for proving that his organizing instincts could work on a larger scale. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The fate of the universe in either cosmology may seem a little depressing, but we may take solace in the time scales involved. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other side of the road, to his left, the houses were also handsome, though less expensive and on a smaller scale and with no docks or boats or gardeners. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s Jena, all blond hair and lanky limbs in her blue, fitted Warcross armor, its dragon scale texture tailored to match the level. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Figure 4.20: The C major and C minor scales start on the same note, but have different key signatures. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Can anybody honestly and seriously suggest that in this type of atmosphere the scales of justice are evenly balanced? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At the other side of this field there’s another fence, a higher one, and he scales this too. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The rats in the ditch were ordered to continue pressing home the attack until Cluny and his party scaled the walls from behind and fought their way across the grounds to open the Abbey gates. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z A circle of lit candles is arranged on the floor over one of the Candor scales set into the tile. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Suddenly they can get access to the same advantages of scale that the bigger guys always had.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Like a scale, a raga contains a certain set of pitches or notes. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Standing five foot nine in his cowboy boots, tipping the scales at one-forty-five, he had a bland, regular, and slightly good oP boy face and a bland, regular, slightly good ol’ boy way of speaking. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She scaled the steps swiftly, following the curve around to the upper landing. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z It was his jaw that had scaled itself down—bone loss had been kind. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She studied piano, too, until her mother, impatient for her favorite songs and frustrated with Claudette constantly practicing scales, stopped paying for lessons. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The form and abundance of the galaxies have a story to tell us of ancient events on the largest possible scale, a story we are just beginning to read. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Some researchers now believe that the stress involved in so-called high- demand, low-control jobs further down the occupational scale is more harmful than the stress of professional jobs that come with greater autonomy and control. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It’s not clear what Cheryl’s parents do, but clearly something much lower down the socioeconomic scale. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He put weights on one side of the scale and a large spoonful of coriander on the other. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z On an emotional scale of one to ten, she needs to reach a ten. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He wore armor similar to Dobrynya’s—made of small scales fixed together that flexed as he moved—but his was shinier than the bogatyr’s had been. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z At least a hundred years seemed to have passed before Shirley could bend and unbend her stubborn fingers well enough to hit each of the eight notes of the scale without disturbing its neighbor. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z More luxurious than the finest airplane, gliding effortlessly over huge distances, built on a scale that left spectators gasping, it was, in the summer of ’29, the wonder of the world. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z A fish broke water in a twinkle of silver scales; the ripples widened until the last of them lapped gently at the shore. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The ones I hated have taken to the water, horrible scaled things that tear my salty flesh with needle teeth. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She reads the quote I painted on it out loud: “As a friend, on a scale from one to ten, you’re a ten and a half.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z It could screech and honk and run up and down a scale as long as there was a dog making him run up and down a street. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z In the last few weeks he’d taught her how to build a fire, scale a fish, pitch a tent and read a contour map. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z A second technician gauges Werner’s eye color against a chromatic scale on which sixty or so shades of blue are displayed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They strike the floor with five separate tones: a miraculous, brief song in an ancient pentatonic scale. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The surface of the shell was covered with tiny scales, and as she turned the egg between her fingers, they shimmered like polished metal in the light of the setting sun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z There had been Resettlements going on all the while, but nothing on this scale. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z This fine scale of roughness Democritus identified with the world of the atoms. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Honestly, though, flying by the seat of my pants would be a step up on the planning scale from where I am now. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z His scales were hot to the touch, like armor left too long in the sun. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We have ameliorated on a planetary scale injustices that only recently were global and endemic. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Their scales glow in the moonlight, bright splashes of white and orange in the dark water. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z One man surrendered a shirt of silver scales that had surely been made for some great lord. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Every product in the supermarket can be analyzed along these lines, and after a taster has worked with these scales for years, they become embedded in the taster’s unconscious. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z As the creatures pulled themselves onto the sand, I saw that they were only horses in the front; their back halves were silvery fish bodies, with glistening scales and rainbow tail fins. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z In certain other parts of the world, slow north-south diffusion was important on a smaller scale. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Leonardo’s sketch is already implicitly drawn to scale, with a detail of the ratchet mechanism shown at a higher level of magnification. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That’s what the Soviet Union was facing and fighting: destruction on that scale. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The flattening of the third and seventh notches on the scale is consistent with centuries-old African melody modes, memories of which had clearly not been lost among the children and grandchildren of slaves. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She also saw that his uniform was slightly ill fitting, his girth stretching the scales of his armor. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He typically works late into his evenings, and on most of his weekends, drawing designs on the computer, drafting plans, writing specifications, building Styrofoam and cardboard models to scale. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She says her mother sings on a radio program, under a different name, and we do overhear her mother practicing scales in the living room, in a loud quavery voice. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And I know we didn’t look bold when the rats erupted from Doug Swieteck’s coat with a full scale of screeches. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Hard scales brush past my raw nerve endings. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Certainly it wasn’t my place to scrutinize God’s great plan, but what about the balancing scales of justice? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z However, because the universe is not exactly the same in every direction, but only on average on a large scale, the microwaves cannot be exactly the same in every direction either. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “On a scale of one to ten,” Farmer tells me, “this is a one.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z This grating struggle over where the pitch should fall affected most of the notes of the scale in one way or another. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The doctor’s eyes were such an odd color green—cold like fish scales. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond, no doubt by accident, to those of modern scientific cosmology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Furthest away in the sky were lots of little white clouds which looked like fish scales or sand dunes which had a very regular pattern. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In my mind, I scaled such mountains of combat often. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Or will we think on longer time scales, with concern for our children and our grandchildren, to understand and protect the complex life-support systems of our planet? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A few seconds passed before she said, “If your sister says we need to find a rock with scales, I guess we need to find a rock with scales.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z A serpent slithered out of a hole in a wall, its scales fashioned of rivers and seas. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The referee watched the scale’s weigh beam teeter up, then down, before stopping perfectly balanced. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z It has a slanted roof covered in rounded shingles like fish scales, and a swirly gingerbread trim. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z I imagine Erudite’s staring eye, Candor’s unbalanced scales, Abnegation’s clasped hands, and the Dauntless flames. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Silver fish scales flew around the kitchen, landing on kettles, walls, vegetable peelers, the fridge handle. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z These and other considerations suggest that a time scale for a significant terraforming of Mars is probably hundreds to thousands of years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A superstitious part of Nailer wondered if the Scavenge God was balancing the scales of his Lucky Strike with a sickness that would kill him before he got to reap the rewards. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Anya got dressed without seeing Mama or Babulya and made sure to transfer the dragon scale from her old dress to the new one. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z There might even be a sliding scale, with perfect numbers selling at a premium and prime numbers going for more than nonperfect composite numbers, etc. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the universe is just a quantum fluctuation on a grand scale—an enormous singular particle that came into existence out of the ultimate vacuum. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She told me about the scales on butterflies, and the way animals lived in ducts, sometimes whole herds. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The massive scale of these domestic arrangements seems not to have impeded his imperial progress. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It is important to remember when discussing these types of music that it does not matter what specific note the modal scale starts on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z If she had to, she’d scale the chimney, but it wouldn’t be easy with her arms full. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z If divorce had presented itself as the dastardly antithesis of all this, it could easily have been cast onto the other pan of the scales, along with betrayal, illness, thieving, assault and mendacity. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He gave her the glass with one hand and, with the other, wobbled up a difficult backwards-and-forwards scale. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The harmonic minor scale raises the seventh note of the scale by one half step, whether you are going up or down the scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Because major scales always follow the same pattern, the pattern of major and minor chords is also the same in any major key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Of course she wouldn’t be able to sell the scale in Kievan Rus’. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Chester ran over the scales a few times and started to play. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z God bless you, says Nora, and I’m sorry you had so much trouble with that scale. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Using some channel iron found behind the machine shop, we built what looked like a miniature oil derrick and placed it over the scale as a brace for a tube that held the rocket. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Dragging himself to a scale, he found that he had suffered away ten and a half pounds in one night. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z White had to constantly fill out Efficiency Rating sheets, grading agents, on a scale of 0 to 100, in such categories as “knowledge,” “judgment,” “personal appearance,” “paper work,” and “loyalty.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Sun shines through, and Lady Justice’s scales balancing right and wrong shimmer. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He would never measure himself, but everybody whispered he must be over seven feet tall, and he would never step on a scale, but people claimed he weighed four hundred. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Although there is general agreement about the names of some commonly used "exotic" scales, they are not at all standardized. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z WL I was young, before I could tell numbers and operate a scales and so record the weight of my own excrement, the men of the house daily performed this calculation for me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Inside the bench were the same exercise notes with handwritten scales, the same secondhand music books with their covers held together with yellow tape. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z For even more possibilities, try a web search for "exotic scales"; or try inventing your own scales and using them in compositions and improvisations. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I wanted to take in his every move among the people, to witness the telling presence that I’d seen glimpses of but on a much smaller scale, at the office, on building stoops, inside restaurants. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a great beast with scales of black iron, whose breath was a darkness that smothered men. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Here is a scale warm-up that also helps prepare students to hold onto their part against another moving part. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z And Håkon wasn’t exactly subtle, with his ruby-red scales and twisting horns. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The skin and scales were tough, and cutting them away took time. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z When Arnold took the photograph, hundreds of men were at work on the building, but its scale was so great that none of the men was immediately visible. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Thus it is a structure distinguished from the practical, everyday kind by its scale, order, permanence, or solemnity of purpose. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as you add an intensifier, you’re turning an all-or-none dichotomy into a graduated scale. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She grinned and walked back over to the firepit and started pushing the loden-stone through the debris, hunting for more scales. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The surface of Io is changing on a time scale of months. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Heqet started across the court and Ranofer followed him dreamily, past small basket-shaped furnaces in which the fires were dying, past the balance scales and the washing vats. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Yet the scale of Pizarro's triumph at Cajamarca cannot be gainsaid. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Denna gave a delighted shout from the trees, ran up to me, and pressed a black scale into my hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The flanks of a great cat, the neck and heavy hump of a bull, wings as sharp and vicious as the wings of the great seraph, though on a smaller scale. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In a final determined burst, she scaled the last few rungs just as Jackson reached the ladder. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z His first instinct was to call it a snake, a name largely attributed to its thick serpentine body and dark brown scales. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The scales are metallic grey, the eyes deep red and the talons particularly long and vicious. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The same word slanted up or down the scale can have many different meanings. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Rusty scales and triads led to first attempts at “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” that eventually gave way to basic etudes until I was playing Bach suites. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw her scrape off the fish scales, which flew in the air like shards of glass. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “What was the bum scale today?” he asked. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z I slipped a few times but finally scaled it and plummeted into bushy undergrowth on the other side. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The big man pointed out the Butcher King to him, sitting stiff and tall upon an armored horse in a suit of copper scale that flashed brilliantly in the morning sun. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In some cases, an E flat major scale may even sound slightly different from a D sharp major scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Once, aeons ago, the Appalachians were of a scale and majesty to rival the Himalayas—piercing, snow-peaked, pushing breathtakingly through the clouds to heights of four miles or more. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Her invisibility cap rolled off her head as she drove her bronze knife between a chink in the serpent’s scales. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Anyone attempting to scale these heights would hardly be capable of fighting a duel upon arrival at the top. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It took a moment to locate the ridge of scales that hid the gate. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Havermeyer was hiding there in a squat He was eating peanut brittle, and his pimples and large, oily pores looked like dark scales. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The barrier fence that surrounds the grounds is made of wrought iron at least ten feet tall, and I wonder how Jackson was able to scale such a high fence. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z She shaded rows of scales and spines, and smiled at how the creature seemed to come to life a fraction more with each new detail. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The Ch’i-lin, for instance, out of ancient China, has the body of a deer covered with gleaming scales, a marvelous bushy tail, cloven hooves, and small horns. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Most Western tonal music is based on major and minor scales, both of which easily give that strongly tonal feeling. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The pattern for the minor scale starts a half step plus a whole step lower than the major scale pattern, so a relative minor is always three half steps lower than its relative major. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Given the magnitude—the sheer scale—of the New Jim Crow, one would expect that the War on Drugs would be the top priority of every civil rights organization in the country. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When he showed Mama, her voice scaled up like Francie’s when she said, “Spats?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Such societies might live to a prosperous old age, their lifetimes measured perhaps on geological or stellar evolutionary time scales. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z How do you integrate your projects with local, national, and international events? with historical, biological, geological, and astronomical time scales? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time we got back to the house, we found that Sam Houston and Lamar had brought home a startling catfish that weighed forty-five pounds on the gin scale. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The moon had risen higher, and floating in the Sound was a triangle of silver scales, trembling a little to the stiff, tinny drip of the banjoes on the lawn. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Unless he could scale an eight-foot-high fence on one side or another of the street, there was nowhere to hide if someone showed up. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z She touches one card, a lady in flowing robes holding a set of scales, and another that Bailey cannot see as well but looks like a crumbling castle. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Bassam weighed whatever you wanted on an antique scale that looked as if it came straight from the Bible. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Individual killings and wars on the largest scale are, he said, two ends of a continuum, an unbroken curve. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A second extension will be to smaller geographic scales and shorter time scales than those of this book. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She ushered us into an unoccupied all-white room with a set of cabinets and a big scale on top of a table. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z In the center of the symbol, between the unbalanced scales, are two empty chairs. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z It was hard to get a sense of scale, because it was surrounded by so much green. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z He climbed out of the water and shook water off his scales. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The only question, in Nixon’s mind, was the scale of the attack. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The glow of the net sparkled upon their scales. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z They have forgotten the scale of theft that enriched them in slavery; the terror that allowed them, for a century, to pilfer the vote; the segregationist policy that gave them their suburbs. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Must be a trick of the shadows, she says, and smiles at the scale. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “I want,” he said, opening his briefcase, “to ask you one more question from the Voigt-Kampff scale. Sit down again.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The clues here are the so-called ‘flattened’ degrees of the musical ladder, or scale, at the third and seventh positions. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “So the object is to tip the scales in your favor?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z When we finally arrive, I'm not prepared for the scale of things. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Very slowly, “Oh, Ford, Ford, Ford,” it said diminishingly and on a descending scale. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Use scissors to cut the circles out and then cut them in half to make semicircles for the scales. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Its massive head rose above the waves on a long white neck that gave way to smooth brown scales, ancient heavily lidded eyes, and a sharp beak that could snap a man in two. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Rumor has it that Day once scaled five stories in less than eight seconds. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Often said to look like a monkey with fish scales instead of fur, it has a hollow in the top of its head in which it carries water. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, none of the food her mother packed for her hit high on the flavor scale. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z We stand between the elevators, right above another Candor symbol, the uneven scales. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z On one wall he made a scale drawing of the major planets, ranging from little Mercury, represented by a circle about as big as a marble, to Jupiter, as big as a basketball. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z But the many vividly depicted ceremonies in Mexica art and writing leave little doubt that it occurred—and on a large scale. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She shrugged artfully, the scales of her neckline slipping lower. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z NOTE: In some kinds of music, the notes of a particular scale are the only notes allowed in a given piece of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The virtue of such a coarse logarithmic safety scale is that it provides us, and particularly the media, with an order-of-magnitude estimate of the risks associated with various activities, illnesses, and procedures. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z To meet the demands of their customers, Greenways has to farm on an industrial scale. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Mister Brannon held out his white, stumpy hands and balanced them like they was on scales. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I knew God’s scale to be vast and perfectly accurate: I pictured it as a much larger version of the one at the butcher’s counter in the Bethlehem Piggly Wiggly. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Norton is so low on the scale of evolution he belongs back in the age of the Cro-Magnon man. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Melander himself had run into difficulty with the San Jose scale, for some years satisfactorily controlled by spraying with lime sulfur. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z One clear illustration of this is the fact that war hysteria increases in intensity as one rises in the social scale. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The windows were all gone but the brick shell of the house remained, damp and blackened and steaming, and most of the roof, the dark slate shingles gleaming like fish scales from their recent soaking. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The fantastical creatures and characters, on the other hand, were allotted a much more exotic and complex musical palette, often based on the so-called ‘Octatonic’ scale. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It looked carved, fixed, and again, she felt it: it had happened a long time ago, and all outcomes, on all scales—from the tiniest to the most colossal—were already in place. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Though I knew there was human suffering out there, it wasn’t like there was a tragedy scale where some things outranked others, or that care given to a bonobo meant less left for people. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Where the water had splashed him, his coat was washing away, leaving...scales? When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The Museum had announced a special “children’s program” in which exhibits of scientific witchery scaled down to the child mind were to be shown. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The sound fit its shape, like the rasp of scales through sand. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The student who is interested in modal jazz will eventually become acquainted with all of the modal scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I shed my pack and slumped heavily against a tree, astounded by the scale of my tiredness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z His scales were black, his eyes and horns and spinal plates blood- red. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We were going to build a scale model of the moped. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Fish as big as houses with sparkling scales darted away from the jellyfish creatures. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Often the tone wobbled like a drunkard up and down the scale. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z After that, we got into the habit of doing the one-to-ten scale for anything that hurt, like if 1 just had a plain old sore throat, she’d ask: “One to ten?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z In the light of Selmy’s lantern, his scales gleamed like jade. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Maybe this was a practical joke on a big scale. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the scales that sound "exotic" to the Western ear are taken from the musical traditions of eastern Europe, the Middle East, and western Asia. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Although the Party, according to its habit, claims the invention for itself, atomic bombs first appeared as early as the Nineteen-forties, and were first used on a large scale about ten years later. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The silk settled onto a massive, powerful shape and transformed into iridescent scales. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Plainly Lawrence had placed his thumb on the scale. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Along with other white supremacist groups, the Klan began murdering African American men, women, and children by setting fire to homes, bombing churches, and lynching blacks on a scale never before witnessed. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z We were working on our projects for Main Street, which is a scale model of a city block that were constructing in the back of our classroom. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z A topological map is a very simplified map, not to scale, so with no relation to the real distances. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z At night especially, the cityscape was muted enough to lose its sense of scale. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Neither of them could tip the scale at seventy pounds soaking wet. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z His body is a patchwork of black skin like a seal’s and green and blue scales like a snake’s. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z But many other musical traditions around the world are not based on Western scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z As he came out of the darkness of the pond the sun caught his shiny scales and the light reflected orange and yellow and red. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I scale it, one sucker at a time, until I’m on top of it, right next to the section of wall that got all soft from a leak awhile back. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I turned in time to see scales reflecting the sunlight as the fish slid downstream. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She confirmed that she had scaled the spire and entered through the oculus, but claimed she hadn’t come to steal. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I looked at the scale in my hand, considering it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Upstairs, there was a science laboratory fully equipped with glass beakers, test tubes, and a variety of scales, batteries, and chemicals. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z All of them have purply scales that shimmer like the feathers that circle the necks of the strutting pigeons. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z In fact it had taken Rekh and his weigher all these months to decide that it was not the scales. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The fish glistened as if it had just jumped out of the water, its every scale carved with such delicacy they seemed transparent. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z And so here she was, on the second day of summer break, adding a few more scales along a pair of dragon wings and worrying about crying murals. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I turned the scale over in my hands and thought about it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In a pentatonic scale, only five of the possible pitches within an octave are used. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z We had no scales, and he had to estimate, using a pound box of gichy-michy as standard. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z On a scale of one to ten on the how- close-did-l-come scale: zero. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z When she sprinted down to the beach a minute later, she found the boys had moved on from scales to guts. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The net caught on the spines, the rough scales, and the mane of horns surrounding the main head of the Basmu. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The Magnar of Thenn stood waiting by the fire, clad as if for battle, in fur and leather and bronze scales, a bronze sword at his hip. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The creature held Håkon by the throat with one hand, and with the other he continued peeling Håkon’s skin off his arm, revealing even more scales. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z As if all this time the city has been no more than a scale model built by her father and the shadow of a great hand has fallen over it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Should she scale the cargo containers to check her position or risk what might be waiting for her on the other side? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The scales at the tea store did not shine so brightly any more and she found the bins were chipped and shabby-looking. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Any decent book on playing jazz, or any teacher familiar with jazz, will introduce the student to these chords and scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Anya rolled over and reached under her mattress, where she had stashed the dragon scale. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z She’ll put stuff on a paper on the scale with the paper hanging down on her side behind the counter where she thinks you can’t see it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z There was no cliff she hadn’t scaled, no food she hadn’t tasted. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Their scale is three and three-quarter inches to the mile—a lot of space to put down the details. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I shall not remain alone with them; I shall try to scale the castle wall farther than I have yet attempted. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Of course, he added, this was quite natural for a scientist who had achieved repeated triumphs with instruments scaled to fit on a laboratory bench. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The scales did not represent justice, for they teetered. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The pitches of the scale have their own syllables called sargam—which is very similar to our solfege system. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He was also very vain, and being the center of attention on such a grand scale certainly satisfied his huge ego. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z One by one, they scaled the reed as quickly as they could. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z With the suspicious attention of a diamond merchant he examined the banana meticulously, dissecting it with a special scalpel, weighing the pieces on a pharmacist's scale, and calculating its breadth with a gunsmith's calipers. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The scale is a simple measure of force, but says nothing about damage. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She did not imagine it properly; she did not comprehend the scale. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z If you weighed it on a postal scale, would hardly move the needle at all, but I suppose there was a fraction of an ounce of sorry for him somewhere inside me. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Young instrumentalists are encouraged to practice playing the chromatic scale in order to ensure that they know the fingerings for all the notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The music teacher whistled the scale—do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Would his message work on a larger scale? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Loudly, I defy all notes in a chromatic scale. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Then a parasite of the scale insect was imported from Australia, a small lady beetle called the vedalia. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Buck’s Peak looked the way it always did at Christmas—a snowy spire, adorned with evergreens—and my eyes, increasingly accustomed to brick and concrete, were nearly blinded by the scale and clarity of it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z If my father was sounding more arrogant than usual, it’s because he had brought home a scale model of his design for the new junior high school, and he figured it was a winner. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z We entered a school of fish, their scales patterned with scintillating colors as they investigated us. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z In this mode, which scale tones are raised or lowered from the major key? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z At that scale, even a small shift—like removing tantalizing photos of cool, icy glasses of soda from the kids’ menus—could have a real impact. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z After making a jot of notation, Rick continued, turning to the eighth question of the Voigt-Kampff profile scale. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Green, the prince thought, his scales are green. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It is impossible to get round the problem that Papin’s steam-pressure engine could not be made to work to power a boat unless it was implemented on a large scale. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He stood five feet and nothing, but was well-built, like a scale model of Adonis, and with him arrived the stink of stale cigarette smoke. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Håkon moved the bandage back so it covered his entire swath of exposed scales. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z They were simply asked to score the emotional content of the expressions of these three men on a 21-point scale, with the lowest being “extremely negative” and the highest point on the scale “extremely positive.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Topics can relate to types of thing, to causality, to comparisons of scale, and so on and so forth. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z She could see over it, but it was too high for her to scale. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The Mercury tracking network in and of itself was a project whose scale and boldness rivaled that of the space missions it supported. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The tests had questions you answered on a scale of zero to three, with zero meaning something wasn’t a particular concern and three meaning the client was bothered “a lot.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “If he’s not, he ought to be. There’s a scale in back.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z From there, we spot mermaids and merrows sunning themselves near craggy caves, their scales reflecting the amber glow of the late-afternoon sun. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Dragons that had scales like fish, and breath that smelled of seaweed. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Its scales were glossy and dark, each one the size of a barn and encrusted with shells from a millennium of living underwater. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z When we got back on board, Hamilton used an old bathroom scale to weigh out the kilos of hash. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z But never had there been movement of African Americans on so enormous a scale. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “It’s quite far from completion. I need to send the finished plans to Friedrick so he can start construction on the clock. I suspect it will be much more impressive when built to scale.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “A fearsome lot. Nothing scares me worse than stilt-walkers in pink scales and feathers. If one was after me, I’d laugh so hard my bladder might let go.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Compton’s report of the Schenectady meeting to Bush asserted firmly the practicality of building a “fission bomb of superlatively destructive power” and of separating isotopes on an industrial scale for no more than $100 million. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It had always seemed to me that Auntie Braxton was below even Call’s family on the poverty scale. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard a thud from beyond the wall we’d just scaled, and the Feeling churned up inside me again. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z When the side of the scale is in the past tense, the other side gets a would. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Solfege corresponds to the notes of the major scale, using the syllables Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, and Ti. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z This has never, ever happened to me on such a large scale before. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z But while he was a very poor student I was a pretty good athlete, and when everything was thrown into the scales they would in the end tilt definitely toward me. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Beneath is Justice, brandishing a golden sword and scales, standing between Death and Punishment, and treading underfoot Avarice and Envy, the gods of the merchants. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Many, perhaps most, early states adopted slavery on a much larger scale than did chiefdoms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The scale that is created by playing all the notes in a minor key signature is a natural minor scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “Um, this is going to sound weird, but on a scale of one to five, how popular were you in fourth grade?” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z I never really thought of Kenya as part of my community, but 1 of the boys says because of technology we have to think of our community on a global scale. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Various unusual objects littered the room—a birdcage, a phonograph, a battle-ax, a hanging scale, a mannequin, a globe the size of a beach ball. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The metric system merely completed a process that had begun with the invention of the telescope, which definitively destroyed the idea that the universe was made on the same scale as man. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Its scales were black as night, wet and slick with blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It’s almost a mental disorder, but there’s a sort of scale. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z At the other end of the economic scale was a small group of ne’er-do-wells whom Drake called “the Riffraff.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z While nothing had happened on a similar scale since the Koliyivshchyna rebellion in the 1760s, beatings and extortion weren’t uncommon. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z April chanted, making her voice go up. and down the scale; and along the edge of the temple, the other Egyptians took it up. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z A man was holding up a pair of rusty scales, weighing some cardboard. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z A modest fellow, he never referred to the scale by his own name, but always called it "the Magnitude Scale." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Quantum mechanics, on the other hand, deals with phenomena on extremely small scales, such as a millionth of a millionth of an inch. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I caught a quick glimpse of sliding scales and an evil eye, maybe a fang. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The scales were hard as steel; it did not even seem to feel him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “On a scale of one to ten,” he says. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He pointed at a battered white medical scale against a wall. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It was another circular structure wrought in glowing white stone, but the treasury had no windows, no whimsical decoration or dragon’s scales. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It is important to note that Hofstede wasn’t suggesting that there was a right place or a wrong place to be on any one of these scales. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z You may use more than one octave of each scale, but use only one scale for each piece. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Music in a particular key tends to use only some of the many possible notes available; these notes are listed in the scale associated with that key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Once the needle settled, she scratched away on her clipboard, while Fig hurtled off the scale, dashing back to the safety of his carrier. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He himself, Hermes said, would give him a sword to attack Medusa with—which could not be bent or broken by the Gorgon’s scales, no matter how hard they were. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She once scaled a rooftop at work, in their virtual parkour station, but that was an illusion. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Balancing the scales becomes more complicated as the tenses get more complicated. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She allowed herself a long exhale and then scaled the rest of the way down, landing with a muffled thud in the fireplace. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z This in its small way is the very stuff of myths—the poor and suffering child who rises to glory, on a limited scale of course. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The tooth blade gracefully twirled through the air before bouncing uselessly off the grootslangs armored scales and landing in the dirt. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Jutta makes a log to match a scale that Werner draws on the tuning coil, carefully spelling the name of each city they manage to receive. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He noticed that Pond was shivering, which was weird, because his scales were very hot. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z A demonic dwarf with a hide of black scales bounded around the room wreaking havoc with a pair of knives. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Usually we start with a repetition of basic scales and chords. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Even in the dim light, Archer recognized the weapon: all black, with engravings of scales and dull gold inlay. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z In the pre-DDT era, inorganic chemicals, applied on a scale that today would seem extraordinarily modest, produced here and there strains of insects that could survive chemical spraying or dusting. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The stakes were small compared with the grand scale expedition Mark Antony had hoped to wage against Parthia. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z At that cue, Zora in her rubber suit with the flashing green sequin scales would tumble into the tank. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z His invisible companion seemed to breathe on a very large scale, and Shasta got the impression that it was a very large creature. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Let the circular edge of the scales overlap the previous row, so none of the toilet paper roll shows through. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Later the doctor came in and asked me to stand on the scale, and I was able to for a few seconds. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The pilot, however, was unaccustomed to glacier flying, and he’d badly misjudged the scale of the terrain. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And then there were my ideas for planting a garden and looking to improve children’s health and nutrition on a larger scale. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z "It's worth a king's ransom, this bottle. It cost me two large blue-white diamonds, a mechanical bluebird which sang, and a dragon's scale." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The thing’s body had to be thicker than her arm, rings of black covering its golden scales. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Around his neck was a set of silver scales. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Copernicus would have complained that the two spheres were not in fact drawn to the same scale. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Farmer wanted to surround himself with people, particularly friends, who shared the same zeal and commitment to fighting poverty on a global scale, but starting with Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Tipping the scale at well over two hundred pounds, he was stout. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z But music that is in D minor will have a different quality, because the notes in the minor scale follow a different pattern and so have different relationships with each other. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Great Britain delivered locomotives and ship models, including an exquisite thirty-foot replica of Britain’s latest warship, Victoria, so detailed that even the links of chain in its handrails were to scale. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z All told,Jones, the saddle, and the jacket tipped the scales at 127 pounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Union leaders were not to be completely shut down, but the union was forced to scale back its plans, with separate parades for blacks and whites. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The Feynman sum over histories does allow travel into the past on a microscopic scale. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She had glued, sewn, or pasted them on as outer pockets, and in the sunlight, she shimmered as if dressed in fish scales. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Melodies are based on raga, which is a set of pitches similar to what we think of as a scale, but with many more non-musical characteristics. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I stepped out on Mrs. Brown’s back stoop and scaled and cleaned the perch. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z From these emerge her children — strange, bristled larvae called aphis lions, which live by preying on aphids, scales, or mites, which they capture and suck dry of fluid. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Apart, they would have been impossible to scale because the lowest limbs were too far up. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z There were cages large enough to contain pools built into the floor, and beings with silvery scales instead of skin swam beneath the surface. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Kin knew Sigurd, so he probably knew about dragons, too, and maybe he’d have a use for a dragon scale. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z "Keep her then, but keep her safe. If these animals think they can use her . . . well, sweet sister, let me point out that a scale tips two ways." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But the crime that tipped the scale and made our hate not only just but imperative was his actions at the dinner table. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We stepped straight from the street to the sand, scaled a dune, and then found ourselves near the edge of the black water. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “What is the word for sheyem?” he asked, holding out his hands with the palms up and moving them up and down as if they were the pans of a scale. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I agreed, and took off my shirt, stood on a scale, and she checked my tongue, used a flashlight to look into my eyes ... A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I no more can guess the assumptions that go along with glittering sneakers than a child in a dragon costume knows what real dragons would make of the color of her scales. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Fat carp schooled so thick they formed writhing mats of silvery scales on the surface. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “Done,” the weigher grunted as the scales balanced. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The scales under his human skin were wet with blood. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z It never occurred to us that she could actually scale a five-foot wall, but that was exactly what was happening. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “If your need is dire, you will scale them,” observed the troll. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z When they returned to the scales, Seabiscuit wasn’t even breathing hard. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Had Orange Juice been a male, had she loomed as large on the scales as she did in my heart, it might have been another matter. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She trotted to the road with the scale a gentle weight in her pocket, heading toward the village. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Blues scales, used in blues, jazz, and other African-American traditions, grew out of a compromise between European and African scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z She was in no danger of him trying to scale the drainpipe to bother her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z During those days of plenty, I laid hands on so many fish that my body began to glitter from all the fish scales that became stuck to it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Political work is interesting to me, and it has to be done. It’s O for the P on an international scale.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Lourdes pulls a sheet of tissue paper from a metal dispenser and places it on the scale with a cookie. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a scraping as everyone drew their cauldrons toward them and some loud clunks as people began adding weights to their scales, but nobody spoke. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Their bodies weren’t much more than wisps of black vapor, but they managed to hold together sets of scale armor, greaves, and helmets. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But it was missing something, something to give it scale and put the size of the nose in context. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “On a scale of one to ten,” I said to Fig, “rate your current stress level.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z On the ticked-off scale from one to ten, he’s at least an eleven. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z On a smaller scale, the electrical forces that cause the electrons to orbit round the nucleus in an atom would behave in the same way as gravitational forces. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It might get noised about that the Pontel- liers had met with reverses, and were forced to conduct their manage on a humbler scale than heretofore. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z The fluid in the syringe is silver-gray, like fish scales, and as it flows into me through the needle, I imagine the microscopic technology chewing through my body, reading me and analyzing me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The difference in weight would be written off as trash, which defied precise weighing, or laid to a fault in the scales. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z It was, rather, a vast sudden expansion on a whopping scale. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In the dream the fish wiggled and wiggled, their rainbow scales flickering in the sun. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z On a scale of one to ten on the how-close-did-l-come scale: five. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Every time it came up, I saw the colors dancing off its scales. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z The doctors told Dad to buy a Blubber-O-Meter 3000, a bathroom scale with a giant dial that was easy to read. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z She knelt in front of him and put a hand on his scales where his nose was hidden. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z His charger wore a blanket of enameled crimson scales and gilded crinet and chamfron, while Lord Tywin himself sported a thick ermine cloak. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Prediction in history, as in other historical sciences, is most feasible on large spatial scales and over long times, when the unique features of millions of small-scale brief events become averaged out. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thomson is better known as Lord Kelvin, and it is for Kelvin that the universal temperature scale is named. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He had scaled and cleaned them, sliced the cheeks from ours, and was wrapping hers in brown paper. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z She spent hours lurking by the dassie dens only to have them scale an almost vertical rock to escape. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Its opening theme, albeit not instantly hummable, consists of twelve notes: it uses all twelve notes of the Western scale without repeating any of them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z How could the War on Drugs operate in a discriminatory manner, on such a large scale, when hardly anyone advocates or engages in explicit race discrimination? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They then called them up three days later and interviewed as many as they could about what they thought of Kenna’s music on a scale of 0 to 4. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I would play after him, the simple scale, the simple chord, and then I just played some nonsense that sounded like a cat running up and down on top of garbage cans. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The scale is of course more an idea than an object, an arbitrary measure of the Earth’s tremblings based on surface measurements. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And doing that would require culturing cells on an enormous, industrial scale, which no one had done before. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Similarly, when you use a compound tense with had on the z/~side of the scale, you need a would have on the other. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I once scaled a four-story building in less than five seconds. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Upon seeing the wild dogs, Diko hissed, his multicolored scales rippling as he eyed them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “It’s a set of scales: one side is mine, the other is hers.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A series of small coincidences that we say means everything because we want to believe that our tiny lives matter on a galactic scale. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Carrying their flints and torches, Native Americans were living in balance with Nature—but they had their thumbs on the scale. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I gnawed the cuticles off from around my fingernails, leaving welts of exposed, oozing flesh which would harden into rinds and scale off. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Had the pandemonium in the ballroom roused his curiosity enough to scale the hedge and look inside? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “I don’t fix the rent scales,” Mr. Dalton said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It was the pale one, its scales the color of butter cream, veined with whorls of gold and bronze, and Dany could feel the heat of it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When you use a compound tense with has or have on the if side of the scale, you need a will have on the other side. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, resistance among houseflies and body lice has now developed on a global scale. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The bodice was embroidered with hundreds of tiny crystal beads in a complex pattern of flowers, and in the dusky light that came through the window, the bodice shimmered like the scales of a fish. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the night she was kidnapped she had been appraised and reappraised, each day waking upon the pan of a new scale. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z We want to count in the grand scale of things. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His positive attitude gave me hope that even if I couldn’t speak my truth, the scales of justice were weighted on our side. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I look down at the lopsided scales as he puts his dice back. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Right in front of me stands a set of scales like the kind Justice holds up, each small tray bearing a set of dice. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Beto dropped his stones, scaled the bank, and headed up the path. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Enormous shelves scale the walls and split into hundreds of balconies. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Ladybugs or lady beetles are among the most effective destroyers of aphids, scale insects, and other plant-eating insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z His scales are smooth from having just shed. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Other musical traditions — traditional Chinese music for example — have divided the octave differently and so they use different scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He's somewhere else, not really listening to my scales. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But inside, I am a slow, sliding scale. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Mrs. McGrath steps back quickly and the needle on the scale jumps and quivers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Groves, the son of an army chaplain, was a West Point graduate who tipped the scale at three hundred pounds and was not shy about throwing his weight around. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “God created a world of work and rewards,” he elaborated, “on a big balanced scale.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Dany swung the lash at his scaled belly, back and forth until her arm began to ache. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Kin’s smile remained as he looked at the scale, before he really took in what it was. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Theon had captured the castle by stealth, sending his best men to scale the walls and swim the moat under the cover of darkness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It is difficult to see how such chaotic initial conditions could have given rise to a universe that is so smooth and regular on a large scale as ours is today. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Others skittered off Drogon’s scales, lodged between them, or tore through the membrane of his wings. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Relatively little organized opposition to the drug war currently exists, and any dramatic effort to scale back the war may be publicly condemned as “soft” on crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She used to shake for hours after the Commandant made her scale the cliffs. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She could scale a wall with ease, and had even demonstrated by climbing up to her own balcony with nothing but her bare hands. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Then a wild desire took me to obtain that key at any risk, and I determined then and there to scale the wall again and gain the Count’s room. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z List the flats and sharps you would use if this were a major scale rather than a mode. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Irri fetched the egg with the deep green shell, bronze flecks shining amid its scales as she turned it in her small hands. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Okay, but on, like, a scale of one to ten?” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Still, I practice chords and arpeggios, scales and phrases, until finally, she takes me deeply into the lesson for the day—a Mozart concerto this time. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z An electric scale sat on the counter between them, and occasionally Mother would use it to weigh dried leaves. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The new Mag- nar of Therm was a younger, shorter version of his father- lean, balding, clad in bronze greaves and a leather shirt sewn with bronze scales. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The announcement of Umkhonto spurred a vicious and unrelenting government counteroffensive on a scale that we had never before seen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Oily black scales bristling with barbed spikes covered its grotesque body. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Our survival depends on committing our intelligence and resources on a massive scale to take charge of our own destiny, to guarantee that Richardson’s curve does not veer to the right. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His city was constructed on a lavish scale, to be the world center of commerce, culture and learning. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Shimmering gray scales emerge from the watery room. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z It was 7.6 on the Richter scale and was felt as far away as Kabul and Delhi. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The sun made bright scales on the water, but I could see clearly. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The path had been chosen so as to ensure that there would be nothing small in the picture — no flowers, no low walls, nothing for scale. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It might get noised about that the Pontelliers had met with reverses, and were forced to conduct their ménage on a humbler scale than heretofore. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z Some of the more commonly used scales that are not major or minor are introduced here. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z And some have charged that the claims advance the political agenda of those who seek to discredit European culture, because the high numbers seem to inflate the scale of native loss. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Suppose you wanted to scale the walls of a fortress which was on the other side of a river. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Smith stripped him of his blankets on the morning after his arrival and walked him to the scales. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z None of us participated in his theater program, which at the time existed on a smaller scale and attracted just two of the A’s—artists and the nonathletically inclined academic kids. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Infestations of the scale insect quickly reappeared and damage exceeded anything that had been seen for fifty years. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Best to measure time now with one of the Randall plantation’s cotton scales, her hunger and fear piling on one side while her hopes were removed from the other in increments. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Conscientious objection on an enormous scale. Anything not to consume. Back to nature.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z His entire body was covered with luminous scales, and two horns had sprouted from his head. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z She saw Carney, with his rusty hair, rusty mustache and rusty eyes presiding at the scale. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It jumped a perfect arch, its scales shimmering a rainbow, then dived straight down—splashing the king with such glee he could not help laughing aloud. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z What he did, on a small scale, showed me how important it is to empower the dispossessed and the disenfranchised in the wake of oppression. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In this case, the scales used are the same as the medieval church modes, but they do not have a reciting tone and are used much more like modern major and minor scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z On such a scale an individual atom is essentially impossible to imagine, but we can of course try. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They may have different interval patterns between the "scale" notes, have different expectations for how each note of the raga is to be used, and may even use slightly different tunings. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Nowhere was the awe-inspiring scale of the Manhattan Project—in spending, in manpower, in physical size—as evident as at Y-12. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Some days you are off the scale, you know that? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z The major scale beginning a perfect fourth below D major is A major. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z For about two hundred years, it was the sole meeting ground of two of the Americas’ largest societies—societies similar in scale to, say, the Maya realm, but much less well known. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Luke stepped off the scale and disappeared back to his locker. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z It is all a matter of time scale. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought the man had “fixed” his scale. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Sit there like a little kid being babysat while they sang scales? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Chapter 2 prepares us for exploring effects of continental environments on history over the past 13,000 years, by briefly examining effects of island environments on history over smaller time scales and areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He liked doctoring well enough, but Peru had introduced him to medicine on a different scale. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Or if you know your scales and don't want to learn about intervals, you can use the method in #3 instead. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Walls, doors, halls, steps, everything was built to an inhuman scale that made Arya remember the stories Old Nan used to tell of the giants who lived beyond the Wall. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In advancing the work so quickly and on such a grand scale, Burnham’s department had consumed far more money than anyone had anticipated. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As far back as 1885, Duke had discussed less ambitious joint ventures with some of the individuals in the room, but what he now suggested was on a different scale altogether. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Science was moving from a world of macrophysics, where objects could be seen and held and measured, to one of microphysics, where events transpire with unimaginable swiftness on scales far below the limits of imagining. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Tipping the scales at up to 1,450 pounds, he can sustain speeds of forty miles per hour. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I count one, two, three, four apples as she places them on the scale. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z On a rather small scale at first, he began to free-lance around the Chinese countryside, robbing, highjacking, murdering when absolutely necessary. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Mark and Linda used to joke about how much food he ate, so he took the hint and scaled back on eating. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Throughout Europe, industrial capitalism, coupled with military force on a frightening scale, loomed ominously. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The most common additions and extensions add notes that are in the scale named by the chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z An atom with one proton is an atom of hydrogen, one with two protons is helium, with three protons is lithium, and so on up the scale. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It wasn’t the kind of place that would exhibit particular patience for anyone, male or female, who took too long to scale the learning curve. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z When he was all afoot his scaled head, spike-crowned and triple-tongued, rose higher than the broken tower’s height, and his taloned forefeet rested on the rubble of the town below. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z But this is not the only possible type of pentatonic scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z What I’m suggesting is a kind of Richter scale which the media could use as a shorthand for indicating degrees of risk. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you have no confidence in the Voigt-Kampff scale,” he pointed out, “possibly your organization should have researched an alternate test. It can be argued that the responsibility rests partly on you. Oh, thanks.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z My heartbeat quickened, my stress levels surpassing total destruction on the Richter scale. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z For a few seconds I look at the scales that represent Candor, the eye that stands for Erudite, and the tree that symbolizes Amity. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “Don’t you want me to come and keep an eye on the scales to make sure the waste man doesn’t cheat us?” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “We mean secession, and on a scale a thousand times greater than was that of the South. We are plotting a revolution.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It was better than playing the scales all the time...well, a little better. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Why is the universe so uniform on a large scale? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I would scale the barrier and hurl myself over the side. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In the beer business, as in other businesses, production costs decrease greatly with scale. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One scientist estimates that if you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons —an inconceivable number, given that an individual cell weighs almost nothing. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But my career as a lawyer and activist removed the scales from my eyes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s not exactly to scale, but it’s definitely Earth’s solar system. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I supposed her attitude was deliberate and for some odd feminine reason she resented this marriage, her scale of values had received a shock. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z When she looked at the numbers on the scale, she pursed her lips and frowned. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z On this scale, intelligent life can be discerned in Boston and Washington and New York. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A set of silver scales appears on the table between the cards, balancing precariously, each side piled with diamonds that sparkle in the candlelight. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “The kitchen scales must be way off,” he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z African prehistory is a puzzle on a grand scale, still only partly solved. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He swallowed hard, drew a breath and made another attempt, producing this time a roll call on a rising chromatic scale. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But the scale on which the Inka moved the pieces around the ethnic checkerboard would have excited their admiration. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Side by side they scaled the last height to where the diminishing pile was crowned by the last broken rock. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z By the way I stared, you would have thought his skin was covered in scales. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z It is imperative to remember that the first time the Igbo people were massacred, albeit on a much smaller scale than what has recently occurred, was in 1945. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z A rolling ladder scales the wall, giving access to the phones that nearly kiss the ceiling. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Since the rebels had to scale the mountains, they were easy targets for the Capitol's air forces. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Tatterfell sews on cunning cuffs made from the scales of pinecones around the edges of frayed sleeves. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z An inflatable solar system hung from the ceiling, with the sun and eight planets scaled to size, along with various starship Enterprise models. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “On the sad scale, how are you feeling today?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z It was rare for a witch to be jailed; only killings on a mass scale and usage of dangerous Forbidden Curses ever warranted it. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z She reached into her pocket and, after a furtive glance around, pulled the scale out for Ivan to see. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Perhaps Nox could take the rope, and she’d just scale the wall with her bare hands. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The light clings to his scales, and he revels in it. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I hit several chords and run a few scales. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Thus the radiation by black holes shows that quantum theory allows travel back in time on a microscopic scale and that such time travel can produce observable effects. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He could never scale the walls of the hole they’d fallen down with Boots in his arms. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Since the major scales all follow the same pattern, they all sound very much alike. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “No fooling,” replied the contratista, adjusting the scale that hung from a tripod about three feet in front of the cotton trailer. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z His horses' eyes were never dotted, his fish's scales were incomplete, and his figures were missing a shoe. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I know what she is doing—weighing a single life against so many lifetimes and memories, drawing an obvious conclusion from the scales. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The bay sparkles in the sun like trout scales. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Some nearby examples, tens or hundreds of millions of light-years away, are powerful sources of X-rays, infrared radiation and radio waves, have extremely luminous cores and fluctuate in brightness on time scales of weeks. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Cost overruns in military weapons systems are permitted on a scale that would be considered unacceptable in the civilian sphere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She pushed down on the scale—the red arrow moved from zero to one then snapped back to zero. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z He had Seabiscuit’s heavy winter coat clipped off and took him to the scales. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z One can therefore ask: does quantum theory allow time travel on a macroscopic scale, which people could use? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Each post scraped off yet one more scale of self until she felt naked and false. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In the Kelvin scale, zero degrees is absolute zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If you have trouble keeping track of the notes, use a piano keyboard, a written chromatic scale, or the chromatic fingerings for your instrument to count half steps. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Or as Feynman expressed it, "things on a small scale behave nothing like things on a large scale." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He drew notes on the blackboard; he drew little legs on them to make them look as though they were running out of the scale. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z There is of course a legitimate concern about reducing complicated phenomena to simple numerical scales or statistics. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The gate was chained like I figured, so I had to scale over the tall fence. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z These are paranoid delusions on a societal scale, explainable in part by our need for enemies, and in part by our memory of what things used to be like. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Such are the distances, in fact, that it isn’t possible, in any practical terms, to draw the solar system to scale. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The sounds of the new morning had been replaced with grumbles about cheating houses, weighted scales, snakes, skimpy cotton and dusty rows. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Fie scales the ladder quickly enough, but as soon as he’s on the platform high above everyone else, his face goes white. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The outer wall of the White Island loomed up before them, covered in a rippling pattern of scales. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He’s done this before, practicing scales or something while we’re talking. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time since I’d known him, and with a furtive gesture, he offered me his hand, and I felt the scales on his skin. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z This was an early hint of one of the emerging drawbacks of science funded on a large scale: the bigger the financial contribution, the more its donors wished to see tangible results from their money. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I step off the scale and change the subject. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Big structures, such as mountain ranges, survive tens of millions of years; smaller impact craters, perhaps a hundred thousand'; and large- scale human artifacts only some thousands. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Seattle skyline looms behind us, all the steel and glass shining like salmon scales in the sunlight. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The three chords in question can be expressed as the numbers I, IV and V because they are the triads that belong to the first, fourth and fifth notes of the major or minor scale. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Figure 4.48: Because all the intervals are the same, it doesn't matter much where you begin a chromatic or whole tone scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z |
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