| 单词 | season |
| 例句 | “He’s been weird this whole semester. Really since before the season ended...” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Later in the basketball season, Russ and I are sitting on my roof again, trying to look at stars, which is all we do anymore. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is our winter seasoning and food. You’ll be glad of them when we are hungry in little spirit moon.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The times, the seasons, the signs may have been mythical; but the sufferings were not. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z All languages embody the obsessions of the people who speak them, and so Sasha’s language was meant to reflect the interests of a people whose world was dominated by growing seasons, grains, and harvests. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The season does not open there until August. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Farming there had to await the arrival from faraway Europe, on European ships, of crops adapted to Europe’s cool climate and short growing season. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I understand now why Chrissie said she hated sugar season,” Mother said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z She's been gone for the entire warm season, and now the windy season is settling over us. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Amari was glad that it was not the rainy season—the small streams they crossed would have been roaring rivers. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She wanted to show us the other side of Marguerite Cartwright Avenue, where the seasoned professors lived, with the duplexes hemmed in by gravely driveways. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She remembered how, after that season, Nicole announced one day that she was too sick to go to school. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z So now, instead of good luck, the dry season brought an invasion of rebels of the Revolutionary United Front. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z And the long days and months and seasons built a powerful restlessness into the boy. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The young man had come by each picking season; he’d brought along his wife and children. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z They seemed less prominent here, but she couldn’t tell if that was because of the changing season or the jungle canopy. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Lots of things happen around pageant season, but Mom altering dresses in the middle of our living room is not one of them. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z To make sure that workers at state farms do not shortchange the military, the army stations soldiers at all three thousand of them throughout the harvest season. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z And when Friday night came round on the last day of September, roughly four thousand of them were crammed into the visitor’s side for the biggest district showdown of the season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Three months, ma’am. At least through the soccer season.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Though it was summer and the leaves heavy on the trees, people went about the streets coughing as if it were the catarrh season. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Will you be my boyfriend again once basketball season is over?” she asks. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In the latter part of October, after the grape season was over, we left Mr. Jacobson’s vineyards in Fresno and headed for Corcoran to pick cotton. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Months later, a seasoned officer would advise me, “Always have an answer in corrections. Al-ways have an answer, and you’ll do just fine.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I tug on Coop’s team sweatpants and hoodie from last season, pull the hood up, and turn to look in the full-length mirror on the door. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z “Them peaches from Mexico. Peaches ain’t in season around here yet.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Wow, she just exploded,” Bridge heard someone say after Em scored a goal during the first game of the season. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z “Accidents happen so easily,” said Frank, “even to the most experienced people. Think of the number killed out hunting every season.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z A commerçant had arrived by truck from Léopoldville, and in the rainy season that was a miracle not to be snubbed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Welcome, guys” were the words Coach Gary Gaines used to begin the 1988 season, and hfty-hve boys dressed in identical gray shirts and gray shorts, sitting on identical wooden benches, stared into his eyes. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z On account of these deaths, Kilanga’s gleeful children would live through another season. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever bow they carried, all of Balaq’s men were sharp-eyed, seasoned veterans who had proved their worth in a hundred battles, raids, and skirmishes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Perching on a wobbly kitchen chair, balancing the plate on her lap, she set into devouring foods seasoned by other mothers’ hands—familiar, yet different from what her own mama cooked. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Every year, for nine years, he started school sometime in January, after the cotton season was over. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Certainly, he did seem to exhibit a newfound maturity, and when it came to playing chess, his skills seasoned to some extent as he began playing more resolutely. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The Christmas season passed, unmarked by any rejoicing. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Like I said, basketball season equals war, and my family has the dirtiest tactics. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z I keep waiting for the year when the fashions catch up to the seasons. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, the rainy season is over and the flood recedes, leaving behind wet, muddy ground. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They ate the roasted birds, seasoning them with lemon juice, and then another witch brought some blueberries she’d found below the screen, and then the witches gathered around the fire. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We spent some of our skimpy earnings on thick plastic sheets to keep our home dry, because Arul said the rainy season was approaching. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z It was the Friday evening at the end of the week following Thanksgiving, the start of a quiet weekend that precedes the Christmas season. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They had to be placated and their favor sought in order to ensure the fertility of the soil and the rotation of the seasons. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Their houses had been torn down to make room for high-priced hotels and the A-frame cottages that now rented in season for a thousand dollars a week. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z June is only the beginning of the rainy season so the grass is still plump and green. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Stuart opens my door and sits beside me in the back, but then leans over the seat talking to William about deer season the rest of the ride. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z One college scouting service rated him the second best defensive back prospect in the country, and after the season was over Evans became one of three defensive backs named to the Parade All-American team. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was too dense and green to be taken then; if the stem were broken then, before the final season, its wet flowing vitality would be lost in a single breath. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “It’s almost basketball season, Dad. I’m in training.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It hadn’t been the season Luma or the boys on the Fifteens had hoped. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Shorty had the stories, the personality, the deadeye with a rifle in deer season. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The idea of truly wishing to end one’s own life is a concept completely foreign to most post-mortals, because we can’t experience the level of pain and despair that so seasoned the Age of Mortality. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Afraid to let silence come up between them again, Ash asked clumsily, “You said — you invited me — how long will you hunt this season?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But as soon as Jeremiah took control, he spent most of the season’s profits in the bars of Lilongwe and Kasungu. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z They owned work clothes and good clothes, and they wore good clothes for feasting the new seasons. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Knowing this from my own days of being a hijabi high school athlete, I always made sure to submit Faizah’s paperwork early, at the start of the season. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z And Luma feared that by going ahead with the season, she might be setting her players up for failure. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Piper should have understood what was happening sooner, but she’d spent most of her life in Southern California with no major changes of season. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But it does not, because farmers carefully sort through the seed they will sow in the next season and generally do not choose obvious hybrids. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. My parents got divorced in the middle of season two and we lost our TiVo.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z This spring was a fire without thrift in the grand literature of the seasons the Meecham family had watched from their verandas. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She knelt close to Stella, then called out happily, “Ooh-wee! Look what I found—elderberries! These are surely the last of the season.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Always springing for new wrestling shoes, even as Luke outgrew two pairs in one season. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “Tropical climate. Trade winds. This place probably has a monsoon season. We should scout out some higher ground just in case of flash floods.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z To catch the fleeting grace of a new season, a lovely beginning, before it was trampled and corrupted? A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z It was “haying season,” the busiest part of the year, and farmers would have very little free time. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The third day of the hunting season some men came in and camped by the gorge. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Bridgitte said she had been advised by a teacher at Permian not to take the SAT exam until after the football season because of her myriad duties as a cheerleader. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time the next competition season began in January 2012, I felt much stronger physically than I had the previous year, and my consistency was better. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z By the time his two-year-old season drew to a close, he was showing signs of burnout. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Autumn came, with its promise of the October holidays, and the town grew busy shopping and planning for the season. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z My sisters and my mother were busy managing orders and researching new design options for the next season. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z We’re in that weird time of year where we experience every season all in one day. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z It was the beginning of tax season, when accountants get busier and busier leading up to April 15th. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they would face another day of trying to earn enough for the whole year with the heavy knowledge that they were going to end the season as they started it. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The year follows seasons of rain and drought. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The adults, civilians and soldiers, spoke about the weather, planting seasons, hunting, and nothing about the war. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z It was choice pepper—the best of the season. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Even though you are an island girl with one kind of season in your blood, you will make a wife for all seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z It was a painful loss, but the season was still only beginning and there were eight games left to determine the team’s fate. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Our people had lived off the land and counted on cotton-picking and hoeing and chopping seasons to bring in the cash needed to buy shoes, clothes, books and light farm equipment. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She seasoned it with salt and pepper and with dried sage leaves from the garden. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost every week, Louie ran the mile, streaking through the season unbeaten and untested. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Of late the sheep had taken to bleating “Four legs good, two legs bad” both in and out of season, and they often interrupted the Meeting with this. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Team drama aside, after my ankle healed, I continued to do well throughout the season. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The Sunday after Luma canceled the Under Fifteens’ season was rainy. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “I can build it in three seasons. Tomorrow is the first day of winter. It would only take me a winter, a summer, and another winter to build.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z But you cant leave in the middle of soccer season. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z All were seasoned rangers, armed with obsidian as well as steel, warhoms slung across their saddles should they need to summon help. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We’d left Georgia at the height of a peach-blossom summer and now stood in a bewildering dry, red fog that seemed like no particular season you could put your finger on. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Erin, Boy21, and I sip hot chocolate as we watch our football team lose their final game of the season on their home field. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Sioux Falls, South Dakota, had only a tenth of an inch of rain that month, right in the middle of corn-growing season. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The rules seemed to relax during the harvest season, and besides, the way was smoothed by a contractor to whom they paid a small percentage of their pay. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t supposed to foul out of a game that would determine whether our season ended or kept going. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Her mother paused, and Candice thought she would say more, but she just flipped over the fish to season the other side. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z And after that, in less than two weeks, would come the glorious start of the season on the first Friday night in September. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And it wasn’t fair to ask the remaining players to play an entire season with a short roster and no substitutes. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z After that, we wandered in the forest searching for a new base before the wet season started. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z We got a long season ahead of us. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z For the first time all season, Permian was having trouble moving the ball at all, punting on three of its first four possessions. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z With a seasoned officer named Martinez, I spent the next day on guard at the foot of the tunnel leading up from Tappan. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Second, among Mediterranean zones, western Eurasia’s experiences the greatest climatic variation from season to season and year to year. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Otherwise, we would be upon the Lenten season, when really it’s not right to be marrying. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Come end of picking season, he’d wander out to some old lonely place they’d told him about and look for arrowheads and bits of old bones, clamshell, and whatnot. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Christmas is the season for miracles, you know. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z He explained that it was his fishing hut, where he kept his nets and other fishing items and where he dried fish during the rainy season. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z They were grown men with thick forearms and huge, cracked hands; depending on the season, they were covered in gray dust or black mud. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The legend goes that one winter he was tired of the cold rain, and so he commanded his artists to create a new season. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The supper would be delicious—omelets never fell and cakes rose to balloons of lightness, biscuits fluffed up, and no one could season a stew like Agnes Morrison. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It raised the question of why he was out there at all, since it had already been determined that Boobie would need knee surgery after the season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thank you for that. Let’s keep Russ’s true identity a secret at least until basketball season is under way.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you think you could play like that for the rest of the season? As an official member of the varsity squad?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z In rural areas, schools closed in the spring and fall and ran all summer long, so that children could help out in the busy planting and harvesting seasons. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The season closed and people went away like they had come—in droves. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z There is also often a mood associated with a raga, such as a time of day the song should be sung, or a season of the year like monsoon season, hot season, or winter. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z As the seasons went by, we grudgingly began to share our knowledge, our weapons, our secret places that were thick with wild plums or turkeys. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z At the start of the strawberry season, at five-thirty in the morning, Ishmael saw Hatsue on the South Beach wood path underneath silent cedars. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Most victims of hypothermia die in a much more dopey kind of way, in temperate seasons and with the air temperature nowhere near freezing. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Thunder and lightning and wind, the worst storm of the summer season. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Our remote ancestors followed the game, moved with the food supply, and fled from evil weather, from ice and the changing seasons. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Apart from the lake where people walk dogs, every season chokes up more and more paths in the woods. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Let’s taste the sauce to make sure the seasonings are right,” Grandma told me. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “With so many incompetent people on the mountain,” Rob said with a frown one evening in late April, “I think it’s pretty unlikely that we’ll get through this season without something bad happening up high.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The Sun and stars controlled the seasons, food, warmth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Next season the cane will regenerate, a vegetal mystery, and she will return to cut it again. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It was sowing season, a time of great joy and solemn sacrifice and prayer. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The rainy season came and went and golden aspen leaves skippety-hopped across the field into his hole. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Later in the dry season they wouldn’t be as fussy. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “All through high school. I come after school when it’s not football season, every Saturday and all summer. I bought a car with the money I made last year.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z However, we didn’t lose another game in the regular season and were ranked number one in the state as we headed into the playoffs. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “Not this season, son. I’ve monitored the books quite closely, and I think this year we will make quite a profit without selling any property.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The rivers flood in the rainy season, enriching the land, Nile Delta style. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Then, just a few days into the season, the ground under Joe positively lurched. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z When he spoke to the players that very first time, he told them to ignore the outside pressure that would inevitably swirl around them during the thick of the season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad said Erlan’s family was probably moving because their show got picked up for a full second season. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z No one bothered to tell me to move my party to another date, and worse yet, they were having the biggest Christmas party of the season without inviting me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking through the cookbook made me want to watch Ruby’s season again, so I grabbed my laptop. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Maybe that was all Mr. Griswold’s Poe choice came down to: a popular author for Halloween season. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Smith was in the midst of a trying season. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z "Balon Greyjoy is not a man to be trusted. He wore a crown himself, remember, if only for a season. He may aspire to wear one again." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I have twenty dollars from picking season,” said Ishmael. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The season didn’t stop with the win over Odessa High. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’ve got your last game of the season today—this is it,” she told them beforehand. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z After obtaining a batch of newly hatched silk caterpillars, Maria faithfully fed them lettuce until their preferred food—white mulberry leaves—was in season. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “They gather on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and during full moons and new moons, and also for the season premiere and finale of Game of Thrones.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z During harvest season the crops from the fields are turned over to the village chief, who then rations the food to the fifty families. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Given the season, the dead were hard to distinguish from the living. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Then, the father speaks in a gruff voice into the microphone: “We’re staying right here. I’ve survived many hurricane seasons. Like the Boy Scouts say, ‘Be prepared.’ Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z There were six more seasoned soldiers—all of them thrown out of the army for questionable behavior, which must have been truly questionable, given that Adarlan’s army was notorious for ruthlessness. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Excitement and dismay attended the arrival of strangers, in a season when no boat had ever braved the seas round Astowell. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The rainy season was past and so, therefore, was the largest supply of vegetables. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am so tired of hearing that from everybody. You can miss one day of hunting season, Johnny Foote. You used to for me.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Grandpa sold my hides to fur buyers who came to his store all through the fur season. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z By the second week of April, the sap had ceased to run, but it had been a good sugaring season. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z July is the midpoint of the rainy season; the air, though cool, is heavy and humid. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You must join us again. We will hunt tomorrow, and though the King and Queen will return to the City, the hunt will remain here for several weeks into the hunting season.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z For two consecutive seasons he lived in the sunlight of Mademoiselle Duvign’s presence. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z “What major-league pitcher was the last to win at least thirty games in one season?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The seasons, the gatekeepers of Olympus, stood waiting to fling the doors wide. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But hey, it was only the first race of the season. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z He thought with a flicker of regret of the snapshots his mother used to send him from Calcutta, of prospective brides who could sing and sew and season lentils without consulting a cookbook. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z "While on the subject of beauty tokens, there's very beautiful craftsmanship this season. I chose the artisan myself from the House of Smiths." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The good cheer of the holiday season was in everyone. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The Beauty Minister tells royal listeners what criteria the ministers and the queen used to choose the favorite this season: disciplined, dutiful, responsible. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z This was right at the beginning of my senior season. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Why would he say yes to building it in a season?” asked Tyr, god of war. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z It was Friday after the last class of the day, halfway through tenth grade, halfway through basketball season. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought there were only four seasons?” asked Mini. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “No. It is too early in the season.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I learned woodcraft from a huntsman named Laclith who traveled with us for nearly a whole season. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I had met him when I had been at Stresa once before out of season and while we played billiards we drank champagne. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z It was as though even his nerves, seasoned by a long career of hazards and dangerous undertakings, had given out at last. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z The nineteenth game of the basketball season was played at Red Rock. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z By the time summer trailed off into the season of endless rains, it was clear there was going to be trouble. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I seasoned it with wild garlic and jack-in-the-pulpit roots. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z For every season he bad the best place, like a cat, and he yelled and ran and fought and upset people and snoozed and daydreamed and pretended he was a Knight, without stopping. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z As she pounded the long, tough leaves with a club and rolled the fiber into string, she thought about the dry season. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t know. But those dresses are from this season, so they must be somebody important.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The days were getting shorter, the nights were perceptibly cooler, the year was turning toward the Christmas season and the long holiday which the entire countryside would celebrate— both the masters and the slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z As Montaigne put it in 1580, ‘the beliefs, judgements and opinions of men...have their cycles, seasons, births and deaths, every bit as much as cabbages do.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He looks sweaty, uncomfortable—I can’t imagine the heavy blue robes masters and brothers of the temple are required to wear are comfortable during the Zamani Regions hot season—but I don’t dare to ask. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It’s our last high school basketball season—last shot—so we train hard. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z During the summer they joined together in bands of twenty-five to thirty—cactus leaves, a local favorite, were plentiful enough in that season to support larger groups. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Man, it was going to be a long basketball season. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z She played soccer her first fall there, but midway through the season she injured her knee. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z She suspected that once hunting season began, her days with Kaisa would end. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Most fencers take a break from training in the summer since the fencing season runs from October through June, but when Akhi came back in early June, we got right down to business. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z One day she asked one of us to accompany her to the tailor, who stitched her a new salwar-kameez in an umbrella cut, the fashion that season. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Every day of that rainy season, my heart leaped when someone asked, “Do you have another game for us?” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The basketball season had started well—they had won their first couple of games. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z "There were only five on mine. I guess I was a little late in the season." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Many of them instead put much of their energy into producing big seeds, which remain dormant during the dry season and are then ready to sprout when the rains come. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At least for as long as the season lasted. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But every year the early spring flowers shiver in the last snow of the season. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Even conservative track pundits were beginning to think that Louie might be the one to shatter precedent, and after Louie won every race in his senior season, their confidence was strengthened. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z It means a season of celebration, and that's how me and your daddy felt, like dancing and raising our hands up thanking God for giving us you. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Toward the end of the summer, when the peak of the strawberry season was over and when work was slow, Ito gave us Saturday afternoons off. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Some, such as jaguars and tapirs, had migrated to higher ground during the rainy season, but there were still many animals all around them. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “I got news for you,” I told him, “the season ended three months ago.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z We always allow a bit of extra time to observe how the flowers are evolving with the seasons. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Mindful of being a teenaged upstart in the company of such seasoned track deities as Jesse Owens and Glenn Cunningham, Louie curbed his coltish impulses and began growing a mustache. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Apologize to Coach and enjoy the rest of your basketball season. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Orange season, oranges, persimmons, olives, and olive oil. “I have the passions of foraging, passion of hunting, opera, my work,” he told the reporter. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The Under Thirteen Fugees, Luma’s youngest team, were a group of boys who had been with her from her first season two years before. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z He was angular, gaunt almost, and not at all dressed for the season in a dirty, torn rubakha and leg wraps. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Even though the season was over for us, we still had to show up to practice. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Although the wild dangler may lurk almost anywhere in a sentence, the seasoned hunter will look in the most obvious place, right at the beginning of the sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no clouds overhead yet, but a heaviness was in the air; it was hot for the season of the year. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “We had a good run this season, didn’t we?” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Like a seasoned fighter, the young mouse chose to nominate the time and place of combat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Unlike football bowls, there had been no season tallies for the academic teams. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z She learned to choose a piece of meat at the market and season it with herbs from her own garden. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In order for that to happen, she would have to be one of the top four saber fencers in the country at the end of the season. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The race season soon ended, and Luther was forced to leave his friend’s side to accompany his trainer to another track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They would wander from house to house, they had their seasons, but I’m talking about where they most often slept. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was true that prickly heat was common during the rainy season. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z "The women I had to kiss in order to take their appointments. Also, I was featured in last season's male beauty-scope." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z But before long the delicious anticipation of another season would come again. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Except, alas, he has killed his quota for the season. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z When it’s basketball season and Hana has practice, we have to eat either super early or super late. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z My London showing earlier in the season had been disappointing, but the last six months of training had made a difference. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He was still burning when his father told him to get ready for the season’s last baseball game that evening. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z She screamed at them, “You two didn’t learn a thing, did you? Do you need an other three days off? Do you need to miss the opening game of the season?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew that basketball season was starting sometime next month—I knew this, because I saw the posters plastered everywhere—but the gym was, for some reason, already busier than I’d ever seen it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Kids simply went “down south” every summer—shipped out sometimes for the whole season to run around with their second cousins back in Georgia, or Louisiana, or Mississippi. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z By season’s end, Seabiscuit had been shipped over six thousand miles and raced a staggering thirty-five times, at least triple the typical workload. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z That Christmas season, the workers had been burning the fields, and so the fields were scorched and black. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As usual, after the strawberry season was over in Santa Maria, Papa decided to move to the San Joaquin Valley in Central California to pick grapes. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z By unanimous vote, my brothers and I retired the Fentress Firefly Prize at bedtime, declaring the season of 1899 officially over. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z When wages were down or workers were laid off during slow seasons, the family was often not sure where the next meal was coming from. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He said, “That will be the last time in your life when you’re free.” ... of Tremont Street announces that he will keep the famed Richelieu at stud this season. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The air smells of lilac or mown grass or burning leaves, depending on the season. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Of course, some forest trees in areas of wet climate do produce big edible seeds, but these seeds are not adapted to surviving a long dry season and hence to long storage by humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They’d had a banner season the year prior and were still undefeated. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z It was the rainy season, and the “road” was a string of mudholes cut by running streams. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “But sometimes one man can be both o. This is the season of weddings. When will it be my turn, Father Lord?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The seasons stretched into years like saplings into great trees. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z We live in a series of moments and seasons and sense memories, strung end to end to form a sort of story. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The season is the only thing that really makes any sense in my life. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I would work a season and buy shoes for our mama. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Howard had learned that Riddle shared his ambition to break Sun Beau’s all-time earnings record by season’s end; the $100,000 purse would be highly appealing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It began near the end of canning season, which other kids probably called “summer.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I needed one touchdown to break the record for TDs in one season. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z During one 1920s season at the old Tijuana track, former rider Bill Buck remembered, the two oldest riders were just sixteen. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Pa spun into a fixing frenzy repairing tack, mending his boots, and moving from room to room tending to all the things he’d let go during planting season. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z She knew the intolerable pressure he was under during the season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He would have remained until the second month of the dry season, and then a hunter would have killed him. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In the white-hot emotional furnace of those final meters at Griinau, Joe and the boys had finally forged the prize they had sought all season, the prize Joe had sought nearly all his life. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Just a few months into the season, I had fenced well enough in the domestic competitions that I now had a high enough national ranking to compete on the international circuit. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z In the long, strange drought we were having in place of last year’s rainy season, soft dust had spread across our yard in broad white patches. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We watched them anxiously and tended them with care and still we found them producing fewer seedpods, and dropping their leaves out of season, and some of them died outright, which had never been known. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I text Nick to see what he’s up to, even though I know he’s playing video games in the basement, because that’s what he always does in the afternoons until soccer season starts. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z The grinding hunger that tormented the animals would go away when the rainy season arrived. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the hot season, Viju would join his father full-time on his fishing boat or leave with him for Chennai. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z He knew what the jitters of the season opener could do, how the most talented kid could come unglued in the sea of all those lights and those thousands of fans. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Our season ended that first week in May, not so victoriously for the Burnt Mill Creek High School Pioneers. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Amber and Arabella's arcana combine with mine; it all showers through me like a hot rainstorm in the warm season. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z This was not going to be an ordinary season. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The season, my whole life really, was down to one crucial game. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Tree-ear knew that the rice must be from last year’s crop; in the fields surrounding the village this season’s rice had only just begun to grow. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z They were neither slaves nor slavers, but free Myrmen and seasoned sailors. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The ladders belonged to an enterprising Sherpa from the village of Gorak Shep who turned a nice profit by renting them out each season. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He was a good shot, Marly knew; she’d heard them tell about how many rabbits and pheasants and squirrels Fritz got in hunting season. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z When their season was over the yellow mustard came up and grew to a great height. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “We may even finish early this season — I won't hunt more than is necessary.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I've watched him coach a hopeless Little League team through a turnaround season. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The season of snows was preferred, that I might experience the pleasure of suffering, and the novelty of danger. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s alive, you know,” says the master-at-arms—a seasoned crewman in charge of the cannon, with unpleasant tattoos up and down his arms. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Now he thought in moons or even seasons. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I watched women seemingly fill every available space, running, stretching, fencing, warming up for this, the first World Cup of the season. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Following the prayer, a video was shown of highlights from the past season in 1987. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She did, however, propose that we wash the windows, a job we had done quite thoroughly at the end of the crab season. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d color-coded our collection of maps with tags made of free paint chips from the hardware store, a practical bit of flair learned from season 4, episode 11: “Neat for Next to Nothing.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “Mom says the season is almost over and I’m not allowed.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z As I drove north through the little towns and the increasing forest rolling away to the horizon, the season changed quickly and out of all proportion. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z That makes no sense, but I wonder what it would be like if I could season my food with the seasons. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Baseball weather is when you know baseball season has finally arrived,” I say in my Webb voice again. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z The rainy season had kept the road too marshy to use for many weeks. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z With careful management, she could live there for years, planting at the beginning of the rainy season and harvesting at its end. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z No matter how awful this season had been, the idea of playing basketball all summer appealed to me. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z One afternoon in February, just after Comanche baseball season had opened, I observed a new fixture in the Chiefs bus. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z And did they ever taste seasoning like in that stew? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “With Raleigh starting his own business and tax season not for six months... things are real tight for us right now.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In spite of her new weapons, Nhamo’s food supply grew smaller as the dry season struck with full force. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The grape season was over and I could now go to school. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She put up what we don’t eat, give me jars for the winter season. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The last few days of school mark the start of pageant prep season, which means my mom is on a diet. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z At three o’clock that afternoon, in the early hours of the first heavy snowstorm of the season, I greet Mr. and Mrs. Nielsen in Mrs. Murphy’s parlor, with Mr. Sorenson and Miss Larsen standing by. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z "The queen's men have laid claim to all the seasoned wood." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Pearl did not realize, nor would she for a while yet, how unusually self-possessed her mother was for someone her age, how savvy and seasoned. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We didn’t keep track of time at Thurmond in the usual way; I recognized seasons passing, but somewhere along the line I had stopped trying to mark it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Job bore them witness, and Abraham was their father, Moses had elected to suffer with them rather than glory in sin for a season. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The season was over by now, but the army-green burlap bags still stood ready for the next ump to call, “Play ball!” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But Terrell says, “You better get that extra man off me early, White Rabbit. You hear? I want to hit a thousand points before the season’s over.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That night, they’d just talked—about the team and the upcoming season and what the two of them wanted out of life beyond high school. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The last bat of the season darted in the moonlight. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z What was it about a season’s first snowfall, Mariam wondered, that was so entrancing? A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The Field Notes are a compilation of the reports of seasoned observers who have spent many years afield in their particular areas and have unparalleled knowledge of the normal bird life of the region. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Kitchen smells, of the roast, of baking cheese, of the gravy, a mixture of onion and garlic and strong seasoning, went to his head—he couldn’t wait to eat. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I bet we have a winning season this year,” Ducky said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z The show had been on for one season and not a single soul among Chicago's three million residents had ever recognized him. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Chattana had more canals than streets, and in a few months, when monsoon season hit, it would have hardly any streets at all. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “Last years classes, gone. Last years records, gone. Sports seasons, gone. A quarter of those Fullbrookers are gone too.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Where farmers depended on rains to water their fields, the onset of the rainy season meant that each morning the farmers gazed towards the horizon, sniffing the wind and straining their eyes. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Monsoon season was almost here, so she only had a week or so at most. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “September fifth is Amazon Rainforest Day. But so far this summer, sixty thousand fires have been detected. Fire season doesn’t end until December.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Since it is the solar year, not the lunar year, that determines the time for harvest and planting, the seasons seem to drift when you reckon by an uncorrected lunar year. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The gray wood was bald, shaved by many seasons of wind and snow. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He did play at Truman through his sophomore season. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Most of the records belonged to Antoine Thomas, but Erik Fisher was in there for the longest field goal, the highest field-goal percentage in a season, and the most extra points in a season. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He responded by kicking Reggie off the tennis team—in the middle of the season—and threatened to send Siobhan away for her last year of high school. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She’d be retiring at the end of the season, which meant the five of us would be the last team she mentored in her legendary career. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The guard behind the table was older, seasoned. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It was like someone flipped a switch and changed the season. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Right from the outset, the previous season’s rivalries and hard feelings and insecurities erupted again. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Today we can buy just about any sort of food from anywhere in the globe, in any season. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Lefty’s father had loved market season at the Koza Han, but the mercantile impulse hadn’t been passed down to his son. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He asks me this: “So when is the end of apple season?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z The sky brightened to a dull bronze glow as the last of the seasons geese rushed southward, flying so low I could hear the beat of their wings against the morning air. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, delayed mortality may be more extensive than the immediate kill and, as the Montana biologists discovered, it may go unreported because it occurs after the fishing season. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We hated them because they were trying to spoil our perfect season. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z And it’s going to be an interesting season, for sure. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I park in the fairground parking lot hidden behind Kristina’s house and abandoned since the last fair of the season. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z My bed was against the west window, and I watched the seasons change the peach tree. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I gotta go. Don’t forget the season’s about to start. I need my favorite cheerleader in the bleachers.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Large families lived in small, crude lean-tos with dirt floors and roofs made of banana bark thatch, often patched with rags to stop leaks during the rainy season. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Normally I hate him because he’s as mean as a snake during the season when he’s starving to death, trying to make weigh-in before the meets. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of the season, the train was especially crowded, especially raucous, filled with families on holiday. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It was a tomato plant, probably the last surviving one of the season. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The dry season seemed to last forever the year that my father died, making food even scarcer. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, most of the roads in town were unpaved, and in the dry season, the dust kicked up by cattle being herded through town or by farm carts loaded with vegetables swirled through the air. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Week after week, I returned to Iowa, watching through the plane window as the seasons changed, as the earth slowly greened and the soybean and corn crops grew in ruler-straight lines. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The previous year, near the end of the football season, we had had only three games left to play. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “I spend a good part of the year after the football season drumming that message into the students and the faculty that we are not second- rate,” he admitted. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There had been a grand theatrical season and a whole crop of great young light heavyweights. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Sickler’s was where a student and his date either both ordered salad or, usually, neither of them did, because of the garlic seasoning. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z And I fully intend on coming down and seeing you play a match this season too, he said. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He carried an enormous wicker basket laden with jugs of milk, with cheese, honeycombs, and fruits that, in the lowlands, would not be in season for another month. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z She handed me a rough clay bowl full of steaming vegetables, seasoned rice, and a crusty chunk of bread, and I thanked her and moved on. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z While I’m on the phone with Vondie talking about my chances of playing in another game this season, I hear panting coming from Mom and Dad’s room, but we don’t own a dog. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z “One for the incoming season, one for the outgoing. It’s important to keep up with the times. Don’t you know anything about fashion?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He and Grandpop started jawing about how deer season was in a few months, and who knew what else because Genie wasn’t paying much attention—he was too busy staring at the rifle. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Why, hell, when the railroad puts a branch out here, I could lay it down neat, broke up and seasoned, right beside the track, for a dollar and a half a cord. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They don’t keep cattle or grow gardens big enough to produce food to get them through the dry season. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The night before the fourth game of the season against Odessa High, Gaines locked the doors of the field house for a team meeting. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And when planting season started, Dad would be out in the fields all day, and Luke could see Jen all the time. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t look so stressed now that basketball season was over. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Keeps us in shape during football season, and it turns out girls around here really dig male cheerleaders. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z “This is a collector’s item from Hercules Busts Heads. The first season.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Basil Stag Hare, the most seasoned campaigner among them, was the only one who apparently took it all quite lightly.... Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Now it was showtime and the first game of the season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, by early 2016, I knew I had a chance before March—the end of qualifying season—to make the team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “Eventually,” warns Tom Hombein, thirty-three years after his ascent of the West Ridge, “what happened on Everest this season is certain to happen again.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The newspapers were already revving up for the coming baseball season. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The seasons had their smells too; and indoors, she smelled clean house, soapy children, a medicinal sister-in-law, a sex-strong husband. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, I hear the season started out pretty slow.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z By commissioning Stravinsky for the 1910 season, no one could accuse Diaghilev of being sheepish with his choice of composer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z One time, at the end of our sophomore season, I gave Blake Grunwald a bloody nose playing Ultimate Frisbee. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “Look! Only ninety miles from Haiti, and look! Trees! Crops! It’s all so verdant. At the height of the dry season! The same ecology as Haiti’s, and look!” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Boobie’s loss was just the kind of news he did not want to hear, an omen that the season was tailspinning out of control, somehow jinxed. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Ellie had four children, a husband, parents, cousins, and friends, but felt very alone at this time—and grown out of season. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z This rainy season has shattered all the rules. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She hugged herself against the sudden chill and watched the marsh thirstily drink up the first water of the season. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z One Sunday, near the end of the strawberry season, Ito sent me to work for a sharecropper who was sick and needed extra help that day. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z In Sugarcandy Mountain it was Sunday seven days a week, clover was in season all the year round, and lump sugar and linseed cake grew on the hedges. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Outside, the air is temperate, the rolling gray clouds overhead thick with the promise of monsoon season, but Lkossa remains a city bathed in silver moonlight, more than enough for me. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The holiday season is supposed to be a time of happiness that you can spend with your family, but this year turned out to be tragic. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He won every race he contested in the 1939 school season. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z All the pageant season diets my mom and I have done flip through my head like index cards. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Vetch furnishes essential spring forage for bees before the alfalfa is in bloom, tiding them over this early season so that they are ready to pollinate the alfalfa. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z To his surprise, even Santino, a quiet ten-year-old Sudanese boy who had arrived in the United States only a few weeks before the season, found his way into the rotation. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z He had planted a seed, and though I let that seed lie dormant for a long season, it eventually began to grow. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But the ram stays; the season is upon us. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I should have been relieved when January rolled around and put an end to my hellish holiday season. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z She said it just as we came around the last stand of trees and stepped into the empty parking lot of the shuttered up farm stand, closed for the season. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaka, near those he loved. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z From the dates of the letters, they must all have contacted him at the same time—right after his junior-year season in Houston. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was even worse during the rainy season, when I could spend a week or two. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why should I go down to bathe at the very end of the season when I haven’t been in the surf all summer,” replied the woman, disagreeably. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z He climbs the stairs and before he gets to his own door he can smell the ham Violet will not give up frying in its own fat to season the hominy swelling in the pot. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost all the rain falls during the May-to-December rainy season and rapidly sinks hundreds of feet into the porous limestone, from where it cannot easily be extracted. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I expected to find some islanders on the porch, sharing news and gossip, and maybe even a few summer people come to start the season early. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Everything under the sun came full circle—the seasons, the stars, the cycles of life itself. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z They’d lost their last game of the season, and the idea of losing to the Thirteens was more than they could bear. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Given that recent history, and the promising look of some of the freshmen walking away from the shell house that evening, Ulbrickson had plenty of reasons to be optimistic about the upcoming season. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I named him Mango because the sounds of his purrs and his wheezes and his meows are all various shades of yellow-orange, like a mango in different seasons. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z “Next season, we might be going to Paris! Seems something very suspicious is going on at the top of the Eiffel Tower that could spell trouble.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z There is a strange frozen violence in a forest out of season. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Sylvester kept an extremely large jar of candy corn on her desk at all times and in all seasons because she believed in feeding people. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Been feastin’ on the creatures for months now, he would not be surprised, even if they were out of season. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “I used to think wax was the best treat in the world. Folks around here used to serve it at sugaring-off parties during the season.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Therefore he listened in interest to hear further what the rich men had to do with this thing, that heaven would not rain in its season. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z By next turtle season, she will be helping him move to the beach. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z After the season he had spoken to a group of elementary school kids over at Dowling. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A hot wind blew from behind me, bringing the sick sweetish odor, like the smell of some female dogs in season. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “They are using seasoned wood, and there will be no smoke, and she will bum before she suffocates.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s how it had gone all season; that was our trademark. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Millions of fans diligently followed their crews’ progress throughout the training and racing seasons, particularly in the East, where something as minor as a coxswain’s sore throat could make headlines. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Half a dozen seasoned Dreadfort men guarded the doors of the Great Keep. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The winning vocalist and instrumentalist would be invited to appear as soloists with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra during its popular summer season at the stadium. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z The seasons were hidden behind all the houses and the traffic on the streets. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “He took away your soccer season, and the price turns out to be one dino park.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Want is our companion from birth to death, familiar as the seasons or the earth, varying only in degree. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Lent is the season of penitence, the time of grief one must undergo before the joy of Easter comes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Apparently, basketball wasn’t a big priority at the Alabama School for the Deaf and Blind, and so we usually came out of the season with a single victory. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z It is a lot of seasons now that we have not taken care of this. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z For the first time all season, he had the players exactly where he wanted them. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She performed at every major black college, often for several seasons in a row. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z She tried to explain that the documentary was necessary for her to explore past-life transgressions, but he said it was March Madness and past-life transgression didn’t happen during college basketball season. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z For eight years, these optimistic young people—and a few seasoned professionals—had had our backs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Ah, the wet season will soon be here, and fruit will grow wild on the trees, and the animals in the bush will grow fat, I told myself. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z By the way, Roy White really was hitting .429, which was .205 points over his last season’s average, which seems to me to be important enough to talk about at supper. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Jo’s bed was never alike two seasons, for she was always trying experiments. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She finally said, “I know you had a good season, Paul. A great season. Remember me? I’m the one who drives you back and forth to that place every day.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z For thousands of years after corn was domesticated in Mexico, it failed to spread northward into eastern North America, because of the cooler climates and shorter growing season prevailing there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I think no. Now is not the season for tsetse flies. There is hardly any sleeping sickness at all in Kilanga right now.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The big fish hawks put sticks in many places during the breeding season. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z They hadn’t had a successful season, but they still weren’t about to lose to the younger team. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z It might have been caused by the season with a quality of light, or the autumn clarity. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He was very careful about shooting the right kind of deer in the right season, and never violated the point system on ducks and upland game. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to see time and seasons, my life passing in slow motion. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Been missing this for...like...two whole apple seasons. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z But a strange kind of flower indeed, because it seemed to go through a number of seasons in a single day. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Darrell Royal responded by kicking him off the team two days before the season opener against Boston College. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was a way for Gaines to salvage the season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Ren is a wild card, but also a seasoned player who has unlocked and played all of these high-level worlds. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She entered without knocking, as she always did, and immediately noticed the scent of roses, even though they were not in season. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When we flew over the region, the dry season had just begun, but mile-long fines of flame were already on the march. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Then, as if to prepare for the new season, Martin reviewed the series of bad omens. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It would be a sixteen-game season, longer than that of any college team in America and as long as most of the pro teams’ seasons. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z If I help him, I could end up riding the pine this season, and if I don’t help Boy21 acclimate to Bellmont, I’d be disobeying Coach for the first time in my life. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I also know that if the game warden finds out about it, Judd’s in big trouble, ’cause the deer he shot out of season wasn’t even a buck. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The last football game of the season was her first as a cheerleader. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z He almost forgot his muffler, then remembered how cold it had been last time, when autumn crept in to remind them of the bitter season to come. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z On the shore was a canoe rental operation that was closed for the season, but I left a stack of golden drachmas on the counter and a note saying IOU two canoes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z It won’t hurt our record in the league or affect our standings as we head into tournament season a few weeks from now. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Just before the track’s season had begun in December, Pollard’s old colleague Tommy Luther had sat down for coffee in the Santa Anita golf club with a handful of other riders. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The houses we passed were more battered than many of those in Cange—dirt floors and roofs of banana fronds that leaked in the rainy season, turning floors to mud. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Sanders tipped the ball to Peanut Abbott as he had done to begin every game in the whole season. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Their method was a much simpler way of keeping track of the passage of the days, producing a calendar that stayed in sync with the seasons for many years. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z With no money and no time to settle, we moved to a different ramshackle rental cottage or boardinghouse every season until I was so pregnant with Rachel that our nomad state seemed disreputable. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He showed me a face mask in his backpack “I’m just glad it’s not cold and flu season,” he whispered, “or I’d have to wear it. I’m just carrying it for security.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z There were a lot of people there, far more than I’d expected this early in the season. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Trapper knew he would get paid for what he did no matter what happened during the course of a season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He became the stuff of legend, with twenty-seven pitches in a row thrown for strikes, a single season in which he hit thirty home runs. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They had started the season with a tie and a loss but had since won their last two games, putting them in a position to actually win their division. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “Don’t worry about me, princess. Being a bartender in the Keys is like being a roofer in hurricane season. You’re never out of work for long.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I discovered that as late as it was in the season, the spring beauties were still blooming in the cool pockets of the woods. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Once he had swallowed a good portion of the English vocabulary, he began to taste the familiar ingredients, the Greek seasoning in the roots, prefixes, and suffixes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In the rainy season dirty water runs everywhere, and people cough and spit because they must. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They listed off the names as if they were talking about the star-studded cast of a movie spectacular, and they frankly didn’t see how Permian could miss a trip to State this season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Even beyond the trophy they had brought home from Poughkeepsie, Joe and his fellow sophomores had good reason to be confident and optimistic about the upcoming season. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Monomatapa’s people went on in their timeless way, farming, hunting and thatching their round huts when the season of long grass was upon them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z We talk baseball, the opening of the new season. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “By starring in all of my commercials this holiday season. TV. Radio. Print. Billboards. Cardboard cutouts in toy stores. His or her face will be everywhere.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “Now we know it’s baseball season,” I continue. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Matty knew Forest so well that he could anticipate changes that came with the seasons. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z It was open season on the eighth grade president, especially on the school bus, where there were no teachers, and the only rule is anything goes. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Some seasons he got fifty or sixty pounds of it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Most shows hold back some pay till end of season. But when Uncle Al runs out of money he holds it all back.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “We won’t have a real meet until track season starts, but I thought it would be good for our newcomers to see what a meet might feel like.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z During the killing season, after the first frost, all neighbors helped each other to slaughter hogs and even the quiet, big-eyed cows if they had stopped giving milk. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The Tigros hit the ’hood gradually, like the turning of a season. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They discuss many topics: the worsening crime on New York City’s streets; the demise of the Mets since their glory seasons in ’69 and ’73; day-to-day matters of the bakery. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew how to prepare a few French dishes, perfectly seasoned and magnificently presented, which were his contribution whenever there were guests for dinner. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The two were already immersed in rehearsals for their second theatre season, opening in November. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z She smiled, nodded her big blonde hair, and said, “Join me for a whole new season of Queen of Neat, because y’all know life can get messy.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z They stayed for two months, through raspberry season, then they were gone again. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It was the season for merrymaking, when the New Year approaches and old debts are paid. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z They only won a couple more games the rest of the season and didn’t qualify for the playoffs. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The farm was so large that a leased, battered school bus carried workers to its dusty gate at the height of picking season. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z His will to pounce, to rend, bite, and tear, was fully aroused, seasoned, and seething for outlet. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z As the season advanced, Cody replaced the attack with the even more dramatic “Battle of the Little Big Horn...showing with historical accuracy the scene of Custer’s Last Charge.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As gunfire cracked in the hills, they watched the clouds slide over the moon and the last of the season’s fireflies charting bright yellow arcs in the dark. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The other players were starting to notice Fornatee and Mandela’s disrespect, and that was a bad omen heading into the team’s season opener, just a week away. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z That climate selects for plant species able to survive the long dry season and to resume growth rapidly upon the return of the rains. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The dull victim, staring, vague-eyed, at seasons that never were meant to be observed. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z All the display windows in the mall are packed with formals for homecoming and pageant season. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Samuel thinks it may be the water they use, which comes from a separate spring that runs dear even in the dry season. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The Dog Squad was there to pull the plug and “neutralize his ray gun—before the madman ruins satellite TV for everyone. It’s football season!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Doc brought in a large chicken for Mama to season and put in the oven. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “All seasons have something to offer,” she said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Since Saturn moves around the sun once every thirty years, the length of the seasons on Saturn and its moons is much longer than on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the rainy season, the roads were a muddy mess. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z One that means he’s got plans for track season. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z “I’d rather hold him out and let him take his chances in college. If it wasn’t the football season, it would be much easier,” he said in the silence of the locker room. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks more like a baseball-basketball guy to me, but he coached the soccer team last season, and he knows most of the seventh and eighth graders. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s not the season for figs, so the tree has no figs. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z His entire first season, people penciled in an automatic win. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “I’m an athlete. A champion athlete, in fact. And I didn’t slack off during the season.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Two seasons had passed since President Wilson asked for volunteers. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Back then, as the seasons had changed, I imagined my father less and less, until his face blurred in my mind like a reflection cast on restless waters. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z His question took her by surprise, and she realized that, of course, she was a stranger asking for admission to see the King's Huntress on the first day of the season’s first grand hunt. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m told I was carried on a pallet by some men who met us coming out of the jungle from a camp where they made charcoal during the dry season. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Above and below this ford, depending on the season, the water ran quite deep. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z In the final scene, Gavin was saying goodbye to one of the kids he had coached that season. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The Cubs finished the season at the bottom of the NL Central. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Los Angeles Lakers and New York Knicks each had a great season and rolled over their opponents in the playoffs. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It seems like a million years ago that I was an ordinary kid who thought nothing was more important than some upcoming sports season and my next dumb prank with Jordie and Pouncey. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The range of altitudes in the Fertile Crescent meant staggered harvest seasons: plants at higher elevations produced seeds somewhat later than plants at lower elevations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The season’s first snowfall was light, the flakes no sooner fallen than melted. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The end of summer is hurricane season, but the weather feels just fine. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z The peak of the strawberry season was over and the last few days the workers, most of them braceros, were not picking as many boxes as they had during the months of June and July. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Its owner, Mr. Pilkington, was an easy-going gentleman farmer who spent most of his time in fishing or hunting according to the season. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The Marshall game was only the second of the season, and since it wasn’t a league contest it had no effect on whether Permian made the playoffs. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Three-quarters of the way to Camp One, Hall remarked at a rest stop that the Icefall was in better shape than he’d ever seen it: “The route’s a bloody freeway this season.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Yep, I only scored three points, my lowest point total of the season. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z In previous seasons, most of the problem players had left or been kicked off the team. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Through the first eight games of the season he had thrown for seventeen touchdowns. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He no longer looks forward to the holiday; he wants only to be on the other side of the season. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It was still a fresh wound, just a couple of seasons mended. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Little Buddy Rankin was a seasoned waterman with two children of his own. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When Sydney comes out for the season, Jill’s eyes are almost blank. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Come the end of the season, their haul was light again, placing them further in debt to Mr. Tidwell. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z During the rainy season from July to October, heavy rains fall in the central African highlands. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z For example, quail into whose diet DDT was introduced throughout the breeding season survived and even produced normal numbers of fertile eggs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Nixon’s Christmas bombings were still awaiting their holiday season. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In her third season, Luma’s team went undefeated and won their year-end tournament. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “We have work! Mr. Sullivan said we can stay there the whole season,” she said, gasping and pointing to an old garage near the stables. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Winter was every kid’s favorite season in Kabul, at least those whose fathers could afford to buy a good iron stove. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z During the hot, dry season, everybody would bring chairs outside and sit in the shade. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Who was the first baseball player to hit sixty home runs in one season?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z During migration season, when we hunt fowl, we’ve developed a system of dividing the birds so we don’t both target the same ones. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z We'd all be leaving one another, going to other places in the fall; and now that the season was changing, rushing toward graduation, everything we did felt like a long good-bye or a premature reunion. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z By examining the moving shadow cast by a vertical stick he determined accurately the length of the year and the seasons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season — something inevitable, but meaningless at the time. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The insects were diminishing in number, and soon their season would be over, which was just as well, as the Fentress Firefly Prize ribbon was grubby and limp. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z To be sure, there were seasoned men in the City Watch, the core of two thousand who'd gotten their gold cloaks from Robert, not Cersei. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Do you think it’s too late in the season for Frightful to breed? We’re way into June.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Today it is available only during holiday seasons and only at selected stores. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z And I had won a few individual medals at World Cups throughout the season, helping both my domestic and world rankings. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “It was a festival season,” Jones later recalled. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was the start of the growing season, and my father tended the crops through until harvest. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z She had proved that by finding Tormund where seasoned rangers of the Watch had failed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I may have had only one swimsuit each season, because I never remember transferring the tag. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The soccer team says they are dedicating the rest of their season to Cassie, both weeks of it. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z A touchdown on the first drive of the season seemed destined, to the delight of the thousands who were there. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Even when Ramadan arrived during the season and I had to play volleyball and fence while fasting from sunrise to sunset, abstaining from food and water, I still didn’t want to quit. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Now it’s the final performance of the season. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “I also have some unfortunate news. We are in the height of tick season. You kids ever hear of Lyme disease?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z This was labor she recognized, she understood the elemental rhythms of planting and harvest, the lessons and imperatives of the shifting seasons. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Rugby season started in November, so playing on the team was a year-round commitment since it didn’t end until May. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “They have to see if there’s going to be nerve damage. The season’s over for me, though.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I was thinking about this: Erik’s arrival is going to change the football season at Lake Windsor High School. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The pool was low since it was the end of the dry season and the thunderstorms of August and September were yet to come. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Silence hung over the table like the blue-black clouds in the middle of rainy season. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z During the first half of the season, Babe Ruth hits for a higher batting average than Lou Gehrig. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Our ancestors built devices to measure the passing of the seasons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Though it was the wrong season for whippoorwills. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z There was some concern because things were being planted late in the season, but most of the vegetables had gotten a head start in a greenhouse: string beans, corn, tomatoes, squash, zucchini, cabbage, potatoes, broccoli. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The position of the sun in the sky was delicate, transitional; and the season was unmistakable. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z This, with the seasoned marrow spread on bread, would make a good Sunday dinner. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z For the rest of the season, Aimee worked with me to strengthen my performance on bars and to push my degree of difficulty and consistency in all my routines. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z On the radio in our company car the classic rock station notes the season by playing “Maggie May” several times a day—It’s late September and I really should be back at school. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyhow, my family's going to have the coming-home ceremony at the end of the dry season. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess in Manhattan you have to start putting on winter coats early in the season, so you don't freeze on your walk between Duane Reade and the cardboard box you’ll eventually sleep in tonight. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “Neither do the thirty-four other Angels in the Manhattan white pages. Halos are so last season, anyway.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z The Thirteens’ third game of the season took place on a hot Saturday afternoon at Ebster Field, the Fugees’ home ground in downtown Decatur. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z It was clear that he was getting better and better with each succeeding game, his fumbling, bumbling performance in the season opener a laughable memory. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hands were stained in the picking season with berry juice. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Sure I can’t wrangle you into a season of water polo this spring?” he said. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The smell of baking bread and sweet spices mixed with the pungent coppery scent of raw animal flesh being chopped by seasoned butchers filled my nostrils. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z When it was given him, he drank his Majesty’s health and compliments of the season, and took it all at a mouthful and smacked his lips. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The team’s best defenders hadn’t returned this season, so Luma had to find replacements from the pool of boys who turned up for tryouts. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z My only regret was that we could not play the basketball season over again. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z “I have to make a garden where the baboons won’t find it. I need food for the dry season.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z "These are American clothes. Didn't you know salwars are all the rage on the runway this season?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And if you were a boy living in Kabul, the day of the tournament was undeniably the highlight of the cold season. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The Fugees had managed a win earlier in the season against a team that had beaten the Strikers. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Now that soccer season is over, I’m back to accompanying her on her endless errands. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Going off after the season to Nebraska, or Arkansas, or Texas. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When they met again late in hurricane season, Felicia was seven months pregnant and working as a cashier in a butcher shop. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z At the season’s end, he became the first Torrance kid to make the All City Finals. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z He would have sat down next to me on the stupid steps and we would have talked about the season, like pals. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Greenland ice cores show that the Toba blast was followed by at least six years of "volcanic winter" and goodness knows how many poor growing seasons after that. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But he always had another season to look forward to if this one didn’t happen to work out. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the fall radio season began in September, the pressure intensified. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z We always stand against the railing, whatever the season, whatever the weather, making sure to get a good spot on the Manhattan side of the boat so we can watch the skyline both ways. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z We have had a good rainy season this year and the corn is ripe for picking. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In some seasons there are many falling stars; in others very few. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, and a thousand wanted to. Did you notice the cheers when it happened? People blame her. For the team losing. For our undefeated season going down the toilet.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z That same night, the Midland Lee Rebels finished the season by routing the Cooper Cougars, and the Midland High Bulldogs did likewise by beating the Abilene High Eagles. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z During “hiring season,” the Christmas break of his second year, he went down to New York to interview with the big corporate law firms of the day. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Football cheer season is almost over—two games left and then the playoffs if we make it—which means basketball preseason is in full effect: I had four hours of conditioning this morning. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z The number on the white jersey each girl wore corresponded to that of the player she had been assigned for the football season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “You endure the harsh winter, and because of that you learn how to really appreciate the new season.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z During the dry season many of the forest trees lost their foliage. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This is the season, Theon thought as the captain's daughter slid her lips up and down the length of him, the season, the year, the day, and I am the man. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Coalwood had its routine for the beginning of winter, just as it did for every season. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The Quidditch season was approaching, and Oliver Wood, Captain of the Gryffindor team, called a meeting one Thursday evening to discuss tactics for the new season. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The season had ended, but another one had begun. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother often talked about the house and the trees; about the change of seasons and the friends she had there. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though we were getting closer to the end of their growing season, ours were still full and round and deeply red. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Mom told me the bonobos don’t spend much time here, preferring the coverage of trees during the rainy season. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z When the hunting season opened that fall, something happened that was almost more than I could stand. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And so the eight months are put behind them, quickly shed, quickly forgotten, like clothes worn for a special occasion, or for a season that has passed, suddenly cumbersome, irrelevant to their lives. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The minute the season was over, he got into a fight and someone broke his jaw. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z On dry season evenings, when it was cooler, all of us children in the neighborhood would gather together to play tag. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The rainy season had gotten heavier and the whole village was coming down with the kakakaka. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He traded them for tops just as marble season ended. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z At one time there were eleven altogether, cousins from Noxubee County, uncles who came and went with the picking season, and my old Aunt Tess. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He tasted his soup and began to season it with pepper, salt, vinegar, mustard— everything within reach. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z It was planting season, which was especially grueling. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z As the junior guide on Hall’s team, and the only one who’d never been on Everest, Andy was eager to prove himself to his seasoned colleagues. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z We were deep into mosquito season, so a lot of what I did by the river was swat at them. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She continued to practice regularly with the hope that spring would mark the end of a successful oyster season and give us the margin we needed to continue her trips to Salisbury. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All football seasons were hard and took their toll on her. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In this dry season only a trickle of muddy water remained in the river. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z In the wild, animals stick to the same paths for the same pressing reasons, season after season. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The waves are as big as elephants during the rainy season, said Crocodile Guts from his soft bed in the njuzu village. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They cut all sorts of capers and whiffed the meat as it slowly came to perfection with the seasoning penetrating to the bone. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z In addition to guides Rob Hall and Andy Harris there was Helen Wilton, a thirty-nine-year-old mother of four, who was returning for her third season as Base Camp manager. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Every season culminated with World Championships, unless it was an Olympic year. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I feel relieved when he says this because if he’s gone by November, it means he’ll miss basketball season, and then I remind myself how crazy this whole situation is. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Creville Heights was all one big area, instead of each yard having its own bubble with its own sun and seasons. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Hand me that seasoning salt out the cabinet. You think you can get them greens going for me?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “I never really like doing the things I’m supposed to like. I’m good at playing football. But the whole season feels like something I have to get through.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z "My husband forgot to introduce another new member to court this season. Our new favorite Belle of this generation, Camellia Beauregard." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z They were lucky to find it so late in the season. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z During the second half of the season, Ruth could bat .400 and Gehrig only .390, but Ruth could come to bat only a hundred times to Gehrig’s two hundred times at bat. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z During the second dry season of my war years, we were low on food and ammunition. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z We booed the other team, we booed the other coach, we booed the other fans, the referees—whatever threatened our perfect season, we booed it. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Without players from the previous season who’d moved away from Clarkston, the Under Fifteen team was suddenly very short on talent. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z They did calisthenics together, tossed a football around, took shells out for impromptu rows, and did whatever they could to avoid talking about the upcoming season. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He couldn’t stay here.The rainy season in the Ajo Mountains was brief, and Matt had a very clear idea of how soon the little frog ponds and hidden grottoes would dry out. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is only for the season, sonny. Just be careful you not fell into debt. For then they do own you.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Season after season, year after year, I kept counting. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z During a couple of the worst seasons, Dad and Mom actually took in what they called West Bank refugees who could not get to their homes. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I miss spicy stewed chicken and red snapper seasoned to the bone. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He tasted all the food to make sure it was seasoned properly. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Maybe that was all Mr. Griswold’s Poe choice came down to: a popular author for Halloween season. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “But just because you have a bad season doesn’t mean you stop planting.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Haying season would soon be here, and there would be many mouths to feed. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z This miraculous season, their team had made it to the postseason. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z “Did you see his face last track season? I thought he’d need a blood donation.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z One part of me wants to go to the deer, the other part knows that somebody’s out here with a rifle shooting deer out of season. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Tulips, dandelions, daisies, and poppies were favorites as they came into season; roses were prized. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “The engine. Was it tuned up this season?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The lowlands are dry—almost a desert—but the hills are cooler and wetter, especially during the rainy season. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Many people believed she would make the team at the end of the season because she had been having a breakout year so far. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Diaghilev took one serious risk with his second season. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Surrounded by the jungle, it is green and lush during the rainy season and dusty and flammable during the dry season. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Off to the north the skies were clear, but in the east from whence storms sometimes came at this season, stood banks of gray clouds, one on top of the other. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Of all the seasons of the year, the rabbit most preferred winter, for the sun set early then and the dining-room windows became dark and Edward could see his own reflection in the glass. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z She called this period of her life “a season of doubt and conflict” and broke off the engagement with Henry. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He gasped and smiled as the first mango of the season dropped straight into Somkit's waiting arms. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Our fight back in the valley had dissolved in the thick brew of tragedy, no more than a seasoning that we might pull out later on. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Summer was the busy season on the docks along the Chicago River. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z As Caltech astrophysicist Kip S. Thorne has written: "The speed of light turned out to be the same in all directions and at all seasons." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I wondered if he saw that a major leaguer was here to play a season or two in the minors. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z "I loved the hand tokens, too," Valerie says, "from two seasons ago." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Hanging down from the ceiling in drapes are colorful banners of the competing Warcross teams, each one displaying a team’s symbol in celebration of the current championship season. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I was the only Black girl on the team, and three games into the season, we had a match against the Birchville Bruisers. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z In Cambodia we have only two seasons, dry and rain. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And at the first meet of the season, nobody knew this more than Ghost. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z “It was my sister’s idea, actually. She thought I should audition for season four. She kept bugging me about it.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I decided, like the animals, to stay holed up the first day of the season. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It made me happy, but I kept wondering about next spring, about whether khaki, or suntans or whatever the uniform of the season was, had this aura of promise in it. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew something of seasons, but nothing of months and years—I had no use for them. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “No ants in my pants, though. Another season of cleaning all of those guest cottages.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “You are aware that doe season opens tomorrow?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The championship game was held as scheduled in Charleston, and the season was officially over. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The air smelled of furniture polish and long-ago meals seasoned with garlic and onions. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z How do the atmospheric pressure and the appearance of the landscape change with the seasons? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She chopped the meat fine with her chopping knife in the wooden bowl, she seasoned it with pepper and salt and spices. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “You taught them to be a bit more aggressive, and that was something they hadn’t been doing all season.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The rodent had been living in my laundry bag, probably since the football season started. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z I’m at peace here in this kitchen—seasoning, chopping, and stirring pots. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z It was a seasoned man’s game; most top milers of the era peaked in their mid-twenties or later. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Years later Fitzsimmons would argue that the intense campaign through which he and his assistants put Seabiscuit gave the horse the seasoning that enabled him to race for so long as an older horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the McDonald’s handout, the cheeseburger contains only six ingredients: a 100 percent beef patty, a bun, two American cheese slices, ketchup, mustard, pickles, onions, and “grill seasoning,” whatever that is. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Their blood stained the trees and never washed off, even during the rainy season. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Dauntless stalked her with Captain Candless making small talk over the ship radios and making friendly observations on the state of the weather during hurricane season. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It was summertime, the dry season, and the grassland had grown yellowish. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Inside a season, she went from delicate to whopping, and the Duke never glanced in her direction without sad bewilderment clouding his eyes. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Earlier in the season, the Grizzlies had crushed the Bears. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They are all seasoned men, Jon told himself... but his uncle Benjen and his rangers had been seasoned men as well, and the haunted forest had swallowed them up without a trace. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z If we beat John Wayne, we’ll end the season first place in our district. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z The smell of cooked, seasoned meat fills the air, mixing with the peppery gunpowder from all the fireworks. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “The seasons don’t stop. This river doesn’t stop. Vultures will keep flying in circles. The lives of the people we love won’t stop. Time keeps unspooling. Stories keep getting written.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z It was the most feverish Friday night of the season: Odessa against Midland, the grudge game to settle bragging rights between the two towns for the next twelve months. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why couldn’t you get shrimp? Is it out of season?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a little living creature—and it sings beautifully! I’m going to give up my season ticket to the Philharmonic.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z On Saturday, October 21, they were set to face their toughest competition of the season—the Athens United Gold Valiants, a team that was undefeated. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Yeah, it’s tax season, but he’s at work way more than normal. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He could not attend the entire year, because during the dry season his family moved away from their village. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z As the fall season wound down, his mind was almost never in the boat, and it showed in his rowing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The growing season—that is, the months with temperatures and day lengths suitable for plant growth—is shortest at high latitudes and longest toward the equator. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She just gets a little needy the night before the season begins. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I had seen the stud bulls on my grandfather's ranch during breeding season and witnessed their spectacles among the cows. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z For this reason, Egyptian religious holidays had a tendency to slip backward relative to the seasons. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The competition season ran from January through October, with about ten international competitions per season. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Then another season came, another year, as the years do yet, bright shining weather awaiting its time. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z We should walk, camp and hunt, and when the seasons change, walk on to new food sources. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Tracy—Mom—had a most awkward talk with me about the subject near the end of last baseball season, during our school's spring break. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Overhead, fluorescent lights attempt to dispel the season’s dimness. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Instead, they were fighting for their pride and against the threat of getting demoted to a lower division for next season. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Supper was a royal feast of boiled potatoes seasoned with a scrawny turnip and a few beans. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By the end of the season it may have been streaked with mud and grass, but it was never striped. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z All I knew was if I found tooth marks on one page of my rocket book, I was going to declare hunting season on a certain bushy-tailed rodent. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He had a knowledge of crops and seasons, born of experience; but where crops thrived under Nathan’s hand, under Selvam’s they wilted. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Just this season I’d finally been able to let them hang to their full weight. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z When the doorbell rings, I usher her in and hug her and congratulate her on an amazing season and tell her I’m sorry she’s bummed. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z He remembered praying for the rain to stay away even during drought season because his house had a hole in the roof right above his cot. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z She had sobbed after the loss to Lee just as hard as Jerrod had, for she feared the season’s ending every bit as much as he did. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The fall season blew in with a rush of cold wind, the maple trees in the yard flashing orange and then dumping their leaves as if in a hurry to get it over with. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “The bobcat hunting season ended last week, but I still want to find some sign of it. Something to prove that it’s really there.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z In the fall, the season ended for the Salt Lake Bees. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z For them, time was measured in seasons, and thought by generations. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now,” she said, “what is being worn this season, for the worst that can possibly happen?” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The gloom, the humidity, the permanent sour breath of rainy season all bore down on me like a bothersome lover. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Really? I did that in season two. I saved a poodle in the middle of a frozen pond. I had to wear specially built skates.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Summertime, when children were sent to the fields to help plant and weed, was peak season for rats and field mice. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z January is the rainy season when the air is thick and hot. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Each time he crosses, as the rainy season approaches, the river is higher and higher. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The transition roughly coincides with the transition between dry and wet seasons—the time when the Milky Way releases life-giving water to Pacha Mama, Mother Earth—and divides the heavens into four quar- ters. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It’s not time for romance—it’s time to get strong, and basketball season’s only two months away. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I combed through the branches, hoping to find something to nourish us, but my heart sank; it was the wrong season and the tree wasn’t in fruit. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The rainy season would arrive any day swelling the river and washing out the roads. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Coach Ripley thought that keeping the team together and finishing the season would help to save them all. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The old men called this weather spirit summer, and said it meant the season was giving up its ghosts at last. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z During the fur season, November through February, I was given complete freedom from work. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Three double seasons in a row of bad weather had ruined all expectations and then came the day when the blossoms jumped out fat and creamy. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z That the Penobscot people have lived in the territory that became Maine for eleven thousand years, moving around season to season, following food. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I was born at the end of the rainy season, so everything was green. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z The rainy season in Sierra Leone falls between May and October, with the heaviest rainfalls in July, August, and September. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Or it was like getting chosen to be dressed in a deerskin outfit and then lowered from a helicopter into the Little Baldy Bear Lake region during the first weekend of the fall hunting season. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Since it is officially game season now,” Jiro explains, “you will see this quite often.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Two years since Pot and his friends had seasoned her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Here in Maine a great many were French Canadians who came over the border for the harvest season. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a casual way of ignoring affronts, slipping past insults to her whiteness like a seasoned boxer slips punches. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the season for making marmalade and jam for winter. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Early in the season, before everything had turned so hideous, L.V. had stood in the failing afternoon light and silently watched Boobie perform. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Chefs around the country, like the ones who buy from Polyface in Virginia, are trying to teach consumers that food actually tastes better when it is fresh, in season, and grown without chemicals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The San Antonio was a terrible place to make a season debut after a long layoff. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Making nursery beds is done just before the rainy season when the sun is the hottest. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z After a short vacation at the end of the season, Luma had just a month to find the Fugees a new home field within walking distance of the apartment complexes where her players lived. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Before the season was over I got two more deer in the same way. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z High school, I had come to realize, did not revolve around the usual four seasons on the calendar. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z “Are you guys going to be okay going into a season and losing most of your games?” she asked. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Sad thing is, getting hit like that was my only hit of the season. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z In the fall when hunting season began, sometimes she heard the hunters riding by, and she would lie very still, wondering if the dogs would find her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Since it was a political season, and Senators Kennedy and Humphrey were crisscrossing the state running for president, the glare of national scrutiny was settling on West Virginia. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The reason was simple: They shut down school for the icy season. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Kirk eventually earned an MBA from Auburn University, became a seasoned chess player, a vegetarian, and a marathon runner. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Frank might have liked Venice if it hadn’t been summertime and tourist season, and if the city wasn’t overrun with large hairy creatures. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In the world of a small Texas town, where the four seasons of the year were football, basketball, track, and baseball, there was no greater condemnation. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I have more drops than in every other match of the season combined. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z I told her about how my brother would be playing his last football game of the season on New Year’s Day. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Which explains why the horseflies up here are unnaturally large and ornery, since they had two growing seasons instead of the usual one.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z They had decent pitching, but they looked a bil tired, probably worn out from a long season. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “In due season all that lives returns to dust, making the earth fecund with life. Smell how the air tonight is pregnant with the flowers’ blooms and their bee-sought sweetness.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z In seasons past, playing for Permian had meant routinely vomiting during the grueling off-season workouts inside the hot and sweaty weight room. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The borders are lush with flowers: tulips and daffodils, irises, peonies, pinks, chrysanthemums, something for every season. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Ordinarily resistance takes two or three years to develop, although occasionally it will do so in only one season, or even less. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Gaines had now not beaten Lee in any of his three seasons—three seasons! Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “And the deer are not in season yet.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z "I've known English witches", she went on, "who have turned children into pheasants and then sneaked the pheasants up into the woods the very day before the pheasant-shooting season opened." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z “And I’ll say different. The new game warden won’t make any allowance even if the deer was eating your garden. You just don’t shoot deer out of season no way. ’Specially a doe.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tuesday or the rest of the season?” she asks. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z In strawberry season we used potassium to kill the germs on fresh berries. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And during the second half of the season, Babe Ruth again hits for a higher average than Lou Gehrig. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In their first of two games on Saturday, the Fugees would face a familiar opponent: Blue Springs Liberty Fire, the team the Fugees had beaten in a 3-2 comeback earlier in the season. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Nobody’s going to cancel the season because of one kid, no matter how good he is. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Summer is my favorite season, so that helps, too. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z They had been undefeated during the course of the season, and their performance on the field was truly remarkable. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Tourist season was over and Key West was sleepy again. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew even better than I that the season had changed, and she watched the sky like radar. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “We try to add a few new ones each season.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “Uncle Al doesn’t like anyone to finish the season broke. He always holds back four weeks pay. You’ll get it at the end of season. Next!” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Mama was already expecting when we moved to Tent City from Corcoran at the end of January, after the cotton season was over. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The California sunlight had the pewter cast of a declining season. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The season of plenty in southern Illinois had not been touched by the war. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Forestry officials, fearing that another season’s defoliation might result in severe loss of trees, decided to carry out control operations in 1957. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She did not laugh the “Saws” to scorn as she had heard the people doing in the season. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Tryouts for the Fugees’ fall season would take place the second week of August. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z By the end of his life, the mules would be more or less dragging him across the field from shortly after dawn till evening, sometimes six days a week during planting season. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z For everyone else on the bus, it was the first snow of the season, but for Frankie and me, it was the first one of our lives. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Temple building ceased in this season to free more men for the fields. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The consequences of the sublethal poisoning of the woodcock are now seen in a marked decline in the proportion of young birds to adults, first observed in the season after fire ant treatments began. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Because of her tender age, her captors did not immediately force their urges upon her, but eventually some of the more seasoned mates dragged her from the hold six weeks into the passage. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He would’ve explained how during the dry season it was exactly like any other river, nothing special, but how in October the monsoons began and the whole situation changed. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z That trees shed their leaves not according to season, but according to rainfall. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Monsoon season would be here soon, and going with this boy who also wanted the Shetani could improve her chances of finding the beast and bringing it back. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Bursting with flavorful seasoning, it was much easier to chew than other steak she had eaten. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “It was at the end of a dry season, Orleanna,” he snapped. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z What can happen is that Babe Ruth could hit .300 the first half of the season and Lou Gehrig only .290, but Ruth could bat two hundred times to Gehrig’s one hundred times. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I won the contest, and the book was published the following season. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Central was playing its last football game of the season. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Boobie himself was well aware that all eyes were poised on him this season, and while he luxuriated in it, he seemed almost carefree about it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the ties sink, especially during the rainy season, when the roadbed turns soggy and soft. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The start of the summer term would normally have meant that Harry was training hard for the last Quidditch match of the season. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z So there were rank beginners who barely knew the moves, seasoned club players who’d been playing chess all of their lives, and a sprinkling of masters. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Her visits, not the tilt of the planet, create the seasons. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Early one misty Saturday morning, he and Harry worked their way through a dripping tangle of cottonwoods and alders lining the Dungeness, evading the game warden who regularly patrolled the river during salmon- spawning season. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z At this time of evening, at this season, in the old days, the whippoorwills would fly in and we would hear them singing in the pine trees, sometimes so loudly they kept us awake. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It was near Christmas by the time all was settled: the season of general holiday approached. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z But after cross-country season ended in early November, she also just ran for herself the rest of the year. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I’d been here so long I’d gotten used to the trees and the deer, the shadows and sunlight, the slow turn of the years from season to season. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z And the suitors mad with fear at her great sign stampeded like stung cattle by a river when the dread shimmering gadfly strikes in summer, in the flowering season, in the long-drawn days. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the height of the summer season, though fortunately not so many people went to Yellowstone in those days as now. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Mom looked at me and added, “It’s not unusual for an athlete, during the season, to slack off a little.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z To some extent he remained haunted by the more or less disastrous season of 1932. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “I mean, why not wait for all this stuff to die down? Coach will have you be a starter next season when all the seniors leave.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Lots were drawn to see which player each Pepette would be assigned to for the season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “My season is one of lazy heat and forgetfulness ripening under a burning sun,” said Summer theatrically. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z My original plan was to play a sport each season for all four years of high school, but the softball team was tough. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z She collected the stems of wild ginger for seasoning rice and yarrow leaves for tea. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Maybe it was the end of the hottest season, or the building of a storm, for we were coming into hurricane season, or maybe it was just because most people had worked hard all day. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She harvested all her plants from the little island—leaves, seeds, and roots—leaving nothing to replant in the rainy season. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z If the air is right, the science will come in its own season, like pure honey. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The garden churned through the seasons, teaching us all sorts of things. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He was a skinny guy who shaved his head at the beginning of every soccer, hockey, and baseball season. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I asked Joel how much food Polyface produces in a season, and he rattled off the following figures: It was hard to believe they got that much food from one hundred acres of grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Every year, folks say, “Hurricane season is going to be bad.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z It was hot that day, in a season so dry our tongues went to sleep tasting dust and woke up numb. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The families of the oligarchy forgot all about the barrel organ, and Marcos became the star attraction of the season. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They finished the regular season with a record of eight wins and a tie and number-six ranking in the state. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z "Not in the summer. Now is the big season." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Waitressing jobs aren’t plentiful with the tourist season ending, and I’m looking for fresh challenges anyway. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z That was good, because I still had the rest of the garden to plant, and since it was late in the season, the cooler the weather stayed the better it would do. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z A few of us agreed to help the coach run a clinic during the upcoming summer for the new varsity potentials to prep for the fall season. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Second, many species that live in herds for part of the year are territorial in the breeding season, when they fight and do not tolerate each other’s presence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We were all confident we could maintain our perfect season. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Go out in the early days of winter, after the first cold snap of the season. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z As the fall training season got under way, Joe in particular struggled to keep up his spirits. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I shook his shoulder and felt bad it was the only game I’d made it to all season. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Smack in the middle of the season, star linebackers and star quarterbacks were suddenly lost to the team because of a grade below 70 in algebra or English or biology. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The passing of the moons now had come to mean little, and I only made marks to count the four seasons of the year. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z As a seasoned recruiter of spies, Wolf knew that the Americans wanted something big from him. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Every year the river floods—not a disaster, but a season. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was early rainy season, and the frangipani trees planted next to the walls already filled the yard with the sickly-sweet scent of their flowers. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “Just so, my lord. The crossing can be perilous in this season. One ship alone may founder, where three together may aid one another. The Iron Bank is always prudent in such matters.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z After a few seconds, he turns to all of us and says, “This one never bloomed, and the season’s almost over.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I followed them down the road to the farm stand, closed and shuttered for the season. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The grassland was lush with plants, in spite of it being only the beginning of the rainy season. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z How nature ran on sunlight and rain and the seasons, and how I was part of that system. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though the football season had already started and it was clear to the rest of the world I wasn’t going to join the team, Freddie wouldn’t stop. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Unlike the fox who met his mate only in the breeding season, Amaroq lived with his mate all year. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He had settled down, and he had his son’s football season to look forward to. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z If I don’t even talk to Erin during basketball season, and Erin’s been my best friend since elementary school, then I shouldn’t feel bad about ignoring Boy21. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Pageant season,” she adds again by way of explanation. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Because seasons are reversed in the Southern Hemisphere, spring was well under way as the coast of South America slipped away to the northwest. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z "I'm just sayin', it was the first race of the season," Aaron bulldozed on. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z The race had no national importance, but in Detroit it was the big event of the racing season. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It hadn’t happened in the first game of the season against El Paso Austin, because everyone knew that El Paso Austin was a terrible team. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun was warm this morning even as we edged further north and further into the season. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z A Renton squirrel scurries up the gate of the motel swimming pool, closed for the season. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Big Creek High School, Mr. Turner said in his shrill voice, had been placed on football suspension for the 1958 season. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I can’t even recall what season it is, except that it must not be winter, since it’s the only season that can’t be unseasonably cool. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Six more rode with them—a mix of young and old, large and small, seasoned and raw. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It wasn’t his season anymore, it was someone else’s, but he decided to go to the game at the last second. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “My old friend, I am not like the seasons. I cannot go on forever. It has to finish sometime.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “We always head to Canada at the beginning of the season,” she says, taking her seat again. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I’d already walked past dozens of posters—and a massive banner hung over the front doors—celebrating a team that wasn’t even in season yet. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “Pick him up! Get him to shore! Is this the season when the water serpents are hibernating or when they’re hungry?” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z What you ate also depended on the season. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I describe the seasons, the land, the wheat and olive harvests, and the Eid celebrations. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Monsoon season was coming, there was no doubt about that anymore; she hoped she, Ekon, and Adiah would be long gone by then. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It framed my experience of eating and sleeping and washing; it named the season and the hour. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Years earlier, as a girl, she had helped him during plowing season, driving his tractor from afternoon until late at night. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It hardly ever rained all day and all night, even at the peak of the rainy season. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z As her fevers grew worse, however, she realized she would not last another full growing season. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They move southward in the breeding season and at such times a wounded one is only too likely to find itself deserted. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z All around, on haphazardly aligned shelves the boys had fastened to the walls themselves, amidst the model cars and their made-up superhero drawings, were souvenirs from all the adventures they’d experienced throughout the season. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He was the reason they gave everyone a trophy at the end of the T-ball season, because he’d never earn one. of his own. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z For two consecutive seasons he lived in the sunlight of Mademoiselle Duvigne’s presence. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z It was “Swimmers take your marks” maybe fifteen seconds after that, and it was the worst race I swam all season. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z If she had to buy something store-bought, it might as well be beer, and at least one player was able to negotiate such an arrangement with his Pepette during the season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Always perfectly seasoned, typically served with delicious gravies or sauces. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z She explains that the annual Pagoda Pizza Christmas party has always been on the second Friday in February, because Super Bowl night marks the end of our busiest season. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The pipes were old, Amaka had said, and every rainy season, earthworms made their way into the bathtub. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The bear smelled the morning’s moose meat stew Omakayas had eaten, the wild onion seasoning and the dusty bit of maple sugar from Old Tallow stuck to the inside of her pocket. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z From wall to wall, Bamberger’s is decked out for the holiday season. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z On August 16, 1936, when Thistle Down Park shuttered its doors for the season, Red Pollard appeared to be out of chances. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Brian Johnson opened the season with a fifteen-yard run off the right side through a gaping hole to the Permian 47, lurching forward for every possible extra inch. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The only bad thing is that with the equator being above us the change of seasons comes backwards, which does take some getting used to. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When basketball season began, there was an inexplicable discrepancy between the number of ten-cent tickets sold and the considerably larger number of kids in the bleachers. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Not by a rainy season come and gone where none was supposed to be, nor by the plain green bushes changing themselves bang into poinsettias. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Even now with the season over, Coach Stork was standing by the door, barking. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Nothing for sale in the market except from the farmers, and it’s too early in the season for there to be much of that. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z In each of our baskets are strawberries — the strawberries are in season now, so we’ll eat them and eat them until we’re sick of them — and some wrapped fish. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z In seasons past playing for Permian had involved other sacrifices. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Luma argued that it would take the boys ten days to get players and hold tryouts, by which time they would have had to forfeit two games—their season would be shot. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Her team was playing better now than at any point in the season, but she was worried about their shooting. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I pointed out that the state basketball finals would take place in Phoenix that Saturday, and that would end the season and clear the way for her cheerleading crimes to be forgotten. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z "It is the sword that slays the season," he replied, and soon after the white raven came from Oldtown bringing word of autumn, so doubtless he was right. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I could not have escaped hunting if I had wanted to, for open seasons spangle the autumn. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Now it seemed ages ago and in a different season and a distant land. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The stranger was a big rabbit, heavy but alert, with a rugged, seasoned appearance and the look of a fighter. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z So when Mr. Tate, the principal at my new school, started talking about me laying low for the season until I got my grades together I was like seriously turned out. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z “This new voice of yours rambles on like thunder in the rainy season.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “We were in seventh grade, and my dad was harping on me real bad. Patrick and his dad were there. It was deer season. I hit one.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Because of their combined debate record for the season—eight wins, one loss, one tie—Justyce and SJ are the final pair in their division to present their argument. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z If you made careful observations of the stars and recorded them over many years, you could predict the seasons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The mud huts of the villagers would perish after several rainy seasons, but a Portuguese house was made of stronger materials and would survive. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But even in the new season and in the hills there were ominous signs. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, if there ever was a sports season to miss, this is the one. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The Electrons had breezed through the regular season undefeated, but now the second season was about to begin: the play-offs. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z No matter how glorious and exciting the season was, he also knew it would come to an end. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Tourist season was over, and there were no boats on the river, and the wilderness seemed to withdraw into a great permanent stillness. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A massive and chaotic evacuation of the city was under way in the middle of the autumn mud season, called the rasputitsa. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Pac Rim had been my first outing of the season, because Martha was picking and choosing all of our assignments carefully. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Come the dry season, and the world turns the color of old bronze. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was far enough in the bush that we knew we could manage there for at least a season or two before anyone even thought to come this way. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The natural seasons for red meat are fall and winter. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Boyles was a die-hard booster, one of those who set his life each fall to the clock of the season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z This will be the fourth season Erin and I have taken a break, and we’ve always gotten back together in the past, so why do I have this strange dreadful feeling tonight? Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew he didn’t mind taking me back home early since now he knew he could hunt more easily by himself for the rest of the season. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Nathan as a boy played football on his high school team in Killdeer, Mississippi, with great success evidently, and expected his winning season to continue ever after. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt there in the teachers’ room that it was the beginning of a new season in his life, and he chose deliberately to make it so. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z He is sick with the last of the season’s flu, running a low-grade fever, body aches. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed kind of late in the season for all of them—but nothing seemed right anymore. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z They needed to know the progress of the seasons and what warning signs preceded a thunderstorm or a dry spell. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Casa Marina was already booked up for the next season. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know,” Erin says, “maybe we could stay together this basketball season. Maybe we don’t have to break up?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m not religious but I get the feeling that it’s the simplest rituals, the ones that are integrated with the earth and its seasons, that are the most profound. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the hardest season of my life, but I didn’t regret a single moment of it. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The year was not divided by months but by the seasons. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z When we studied the seasons, Mrs. Brush assigned us an essay describing a winter holiday with our family and said the best one would be printed in the school newsletter. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z We added some seasonings, like salt, pepper, and paprika, and mixed it all together. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z It is October: the end of the rainy season and start of the dry season. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At least I would have one less worry during the rainy season—we could get our drinking water straight from the sky. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Peach palm was not in season, but he found another member of the same genus. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z While we were cooking dinner, a young southbound thru-hiker—the first of the season—arrived. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Mother said, “You know, Chrissie, I’ve never been here in sugaring season before? I always wanted to, I remember, and Grandma was always insisting. But we could never get here until school was out.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z My parents came over for dinner that night and we ate, flush with the merriment of the season. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Luma had lost more than one of the teenage Fugees to gangs in the past; she knew she would be competing against the gangs again this season. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z We formulate new ideas by analogy, working from what we know toward what we don’t know, and what the reformers knew were the rhythms of the agricultural seasons. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Our lives were a cycle—the cycle of the day, the cycle of the seasons—circles of perpetual change that, when complete, meant nothing had changed at all. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Two seasons later, large branches on these trees had died, others were without leaves, and the deformed, weeping effect of whole trees persisted. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It came from every point in the sky, day and night, through every season. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z There had to be at least a hundred annotations, about the Nightbeast’s diet, its preferred season for hibernation, even its favorite snack. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Seeds were stored in seed pots from one season to the next. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “They are scarcely in season,” said the old man reprovingly, and he walked off in the direction of the cottage. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, I just ask—and I quote—‘Fall is my favorite season, so I was wondering if you had some fun ideas for autumn-inspired crafts?’ Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z If the casualties were limited to their own kind there would be no problem, but the slaughter of cows, pigs, farmers, dogs, and highway signs makes autumn a dangerous season in which to travel. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Because South Africa is below the equator, their seasons are the reverse of ours, so I boarded the plane knowing that I would bypass the winter cold this year. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I have learned from dealing with those players that it is best to leave them alone when their old seasons come around. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Not so with cheerleading and the boys’ basketball season. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Even before the calamitous outcome of the 1996 premonsoon climbing season, the proliferation of commercial expeditions over the past decade was a touchy issue. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z How could a seasoned author like John Keegan, a man who shows frequent flashes of writerly flair, serve as a model of incoherent writing, comparing badly with a guy who sells birdseed on Cape Cod? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He was standing motionless on the top of a small ridge, and he seemed from a distance to be a scarecrow left over from the growing season. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z We hunted gazelles and antelope and buffalo whose migrations ebbed and flowed with the seasons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When I get over there precisely seventeen minutes later, she’s also showered and changed and has I Love Lucy season four cued up on the TV. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z “It’s game season. The authorities are on high alert.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Figures I’d start getting good with hurdles right when the season is about over. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z The theatrical season was running out and actor accounts fell off. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Unlike his Dodgers teammates, he hadn’t been slugging home runs all season. The rookie was still looking for his very first home run in the big leagues.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z The rainy season had started, and though it was only drizzling now, in the days ahead, we’d face many downpours. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Within days of my walk up Killington, winter began blowing in; the hiking season was clearly at an end. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She found several other small streams—they had been much larger, but the rainy season was already two months past. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then again, given that this was my first season as an elite junior gymnast, I’d medaled more than I thought I would. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Furthermore, in contrast to the winter rains prevailing over much of Europe, Japan’s rains are concentrated in the summer growing season. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The seasons flowed into one another and Claire was no longer surprised as the changes came. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Everything in its season,” said Silas, and he said no more that night. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The other states of the cotton empire absorbed the stock; Florida and Louisiana, in their explosive growth, were particularly famished for colored hands, especially the seasoned variety. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I had spent the entire competitive season with one goal in mind, to make the national team. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The ridiculous story might have lived out a brief life in Columbia had the paper not put it out on the national wire, thinking it was the scoop of the season. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I clicked the green button to describe our seasons, and then the pale blue one to explain that our president was Bill Clinton and our vice president was Al Gore. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “You done holding my hand yet?” asked Lizzie after a season or two. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z It was the rainy season, and everyone and everything was constantly damp and soggy. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “Do you consider you have got your reward for a season of exertion?” asked Mr. Rivers, when they were gone. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z There seemed no chance of either while the final Quidditch game of the season was looming; Ron wanted to talk tactics with Harry all the time and had little thought for anything else. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Thanksgiving passed, and the pheasant season came to a halt, but not the beautiful Indian summer, with its flow of clear, pure days. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “There are kids at school who took that Red Cross class and actually want to babysit. I can get you names. Hire them. I won’t be able to watch them once soccer season starts, anyway.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z It wasn’t something she did often, you know—once in a season, perhaps—and it was special because Jamie was there. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z It was as though the season had exhausted itself, for on January first the temperature shot up to sixty-one degrees and slushed the whiteness overnight. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Especially in the rainy season, the Cape buffalo like to travel in herds,” he explained. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They have been thinking it through two apple seasons. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z As she started up the four flights to the roof, Boori Ma kept one hand placed over the knee that swelled at the start of every rainy season. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z They always know when you need them too much and pick precisely that season to make themselves scarce. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For Pollard, it was a season of incredible strain and humiliation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Erin—who sits next to me in the cafeteria when it’s not basketball season—just started eating the carrots off my plate enthusiastically and thanking people until they got confused. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At the river’s edge during flood season are small trees inundated to the tips of their branches. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A bleak season came upon the island—a rotting monsoon or a parched summer—and fruit supplies dwindled drastically. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Pretty much. And remember how I told you he’d been that way since the end of the football season?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z As the dry season progressed, the grass shriveled and many trees lost their leaves. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z How many seasons has she searched its horizon for signs? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I can’t imagine the time of year makes all that much difference when South Texas is only known to have two seasons: Hot as Balls and Not Quite as Hot as Balls. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The sound was sharp—seasoned pine on hardwood—and rang out like a rebuke. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A season in the junkyard had honed my reflexes: I’d learned to listen for the low grunt that escaped Dad’s lips whenever he tossed something heavy, and when I heard it I hit the dirt. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A Government spokesman predicted a poor planting season because of all the rain. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Levy’s Lodge was where he went between seasons. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “But we’ll see a different ballet later in the season,” Mama promised. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z At El Camino Junior High I continued the eighth grade, which I had started in Corcoran the first week of November after the grape season was over. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z By the time hunting season was over, I was a nervous wreck. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z At 11 o’clock I left that building and crossed the Center Common where a few students were already lounging although it was still a little early in the season for that. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z After his freshman season, Coach had pulled Luke out of the hallway and taken him to the teacher’s lounge. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z During dry seasons they planted tobacco and in wet months, rice. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z That’s the way farmers had always gotten their seed—they just kept some of their crop to be planted for the next season. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Those were my two worst games of the season. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Shocked by the toll in human life, critics have been quick to suggest policies and procedures to ensure that the catastrophes of this season won’t be repeated. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z They spent a few hours in this formal visit, speaking of the opera season, trips to Europe, the political situation, and the winter chills, while they drank sweet wine and ate puff pastries. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The odds of avoiding arrest and successfully crossing to China seem to change from season to season. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Those are the statistics of this soccer season. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z My parents objected, but I assured them that when the crab season was over, I would go and catch up with the class. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Each one is dressed from head to toe in the hottest fashion of the season. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Arletta Paisley’s summer season premiere was only a few days away, and H & H was showing a heavy rotation of reruns to build excitement about the new show. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z A channel that is one mile wide in the dry season can become thirty miles wide in the wet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It is January, a new season, a new year. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “I was saying to Maxim a few days ago we ought to have a record season. We shall be able to send a lot up to London.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll be out of here before the rainy season starts, anyhow,” she told herself. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She spins to face me, and I see a plate of seasoned drumsticks and stewed potatoes on our little kitchen table. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z There’s no way he’d be able to get through the demands of an organized basketball season, especially claiming to be from outer space. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I had to battle for my place at the top every single season, but I made it because I was stronger and fencing smarter. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z All the parents are chatting with each other; there’s a cacophony of Oh, Colette, how are Jackie’s piano lessons going? and What do you think about the season they just had? Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z College teams from five states competed in the first indoor track meet of the season, but the big event, the mile run, was won by a high-school senior. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Though it was still August, the air already had the smell of October, football season, piles of yellow-red leaves, everything crisp and clean. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z To get ready for the season, I went to three summer camps. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z At the end of the season, The Milwaukee Journal published the averages of all Major League players, and since this pitcher hadn’t played again, his ERA was 135, as I had calculated. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She remembered the cruelty of the 1986 season, her husband’s first, when Odessa was going through the worst economic crisis in its history. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In the very southern tip of the country they grew oranges and lemons, which were shipped north to the Royal City during harvest season to be made into lemonade and orange punch. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s because of Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, the start of the Christmas shopping season. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z In one last dash across the desert they had reached the drawbridge—could Merlyn have guessed what he was thinking?—and were staring down into the moat It was the season of water-lilies. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s almost like having a girlfriend during the season—an extra worry. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They don’t see that the fields are new and the seasons change. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When the rainy season ended, we started school at the orphanage. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z For weeks it had been open season on the eighth grade president, but he hung in there. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z But during the rainy season, he could walk to the school, which was only half an hour from his home. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But when the seasons brought the fourth around, one of her maids, who knew the secret, told us; we found her unraveling the splendid shroud. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they’d used the salty water to season their meat and cornbread. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z I had tried so hard to bear her loss and had swallowed back the tears that had been building up inside me for two seasons. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z Since basketball season is over, I leave when everybody else does. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Methuselah sits puny and still in his avocado tree with his eyes ticking back and forth, unprepared for a new season of overwhelming freedom. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The park was nearly empty because of the cold and the Christmas season, but a few families were leaving as the day came to a close. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z In the early days there had been no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny to decorate the sacrilege, piety, or greedy whimsy of Milagro’s various religious seasons. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In mango season, the tree dangled golden drops of heaven overhead, swaying just out of reach. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Deer hunting was popular in our area because shooting and dressing a deer provided a lot of winter food for a family, so we had school off for the first day of hunting season. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It is only September and it is still hot in Paintbrush Falls, even if we are pretty far north, but Killer Man has decided, I guess, that the season dictates gray flannel. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z I asked your sister for leave to take a thousand seasoned men and ride for River- run with all haste. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Since Mr. Popper knew that penguins lay only two eggs a season, he was astonished when, a little later, the third egg was found under Greta. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Or planned to work on it as soon as the season calmed down. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z We are in the rainy season, but it doesn’t rain much here. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He made it through an entire season before someone caught him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It noted full moons and crescents and the official change of the seasons. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z After long seasons of slow preparation for an innocent death, the world is theirs at last. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Although it was the rainy season and everything was green, there was disease in the area, and people were worried about the cattle. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Zero wins and 30 losses over the last three seasons. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Alternatively, hunters may have caught and ‘adopted’ a lamb, fattening it during the months of plenty and slaughtering it in the leaner season. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Every evening during the pre-Christmas season, we would bake cookies and sit at the dining room table to have cookies and milk while Grandma read to us and we made gifts for each other. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Then days and months grew full and waned, the year went wheeling round, the seasons came again, before at last the power of Iphiklos, relenting, freed the prisoner, who foretold all things to him. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z His face twisted; he no longer looked like the stranger who had arrived in Asgard a season before, placid and even-tempered. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Peggy told me that already they had had a thousand hikers through since January 1, with the real start of the hiking season still to come. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z "I've got a man in England who buys me clothes. He sends over a selection of things at the beginning of each season, spring and fall." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z All through Camillo Junior High, there were signs of the season. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z However, with the first deer to work on, the rest of the season passed quickly. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z We ended up beating them pretty badly, though, 42-12, and the coolest thing was that Coach M said he wasn’t going to let anyone wear Kevin’s number for the rest of the season. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z This is it, folks, the championship of the Middle School Junior Varsity season is on the line—but hold on . Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was the height of summer, harvest season in the first year of what I have come to call my war with Hrothgar. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z His garage was filled with shelves stacked with samples, and after each new season Glen's dad let him sell the samples to his friends. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The sullen rivalries that had arisen during the fall season now turned into outright battles. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Tea Cake and Janie decided to stay since they wanted to make another season on the muck. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z That first season, the Fugees played in a recreational, or rec, league, an informal division teams played in before they could enter competition in the “select” grouping. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The Sapa Inca’s men collected food from the villages every season and placed it in the many storehouses for travelers and for the people to eat in the years when the crops didn’t grow. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The season had been over a long time and no one met the train. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z During the season, there had been a ceaseless cacophony in that room of songs and stories and pleas for fifty cents to buy a soda. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The season had been brief; the flash of bird wings, the thunder of migrating herds. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I continued to think of him as being like an old copper pot—seasoned by fire, dinged up but still shiny. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z They dehydrate dangerously quickly without it, even in cooler seasons. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer—and what trees and seasons smelled like—how people looked and walked and smelled even. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And the cursing: in New York City, summer is the season of bad language. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She would have fetched more but for that season’s glut of young girls. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z You can buy your organics at any time of the year, no matter the season. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z All seasoned KGB agents knew that the call to return to Moscow meant serious trouble. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z With the advent of winter the traditional building season had come to an end. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Viju’s father went back to fishing and would hunt honey when it came in season, and Viju came back sheepishly for the last few weeks of school. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z We watched them in broadcast order, starting with The Original Series, though things got complicated after the fifth season of The Next Generation, since its sixth season overlapped Deep Space Nine. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z In return there was a fantastic, visceral payoff—a single season of his life in which he became a prince, ogled at, treasured, bathed in the unimaginable glory of Friday night. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “The rice crop will do well this year, and the market has gone up. Let’s plan on making a bigger harvest next season.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z All around Allen was utter chaos as the Americans were picked off by the seasoned NVA troops. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z In berry season, I could sell all the benies I could pick at my grandfather’s store. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Jem’s football sweater had grown increasingly gorgeous—he was captain of the team, the first year Maycomb beat Abbottsville in thirteen seasons. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z They had learned their own strengths and kept their cool; they had received no red cards during the season. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z They smile down at me, their mouths big enough to swallow the city, and as I look on, they all hold up cans of soda, declaring Coca-Cola their drink of choice during game season. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “It would have been nice to finish the season on a high note. With a big game. But this Baylor kid ruined it.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He got into the game in the second quarter and gained four yards on his first carry of the season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As the two ran side by side, the gleam of their headpieces told her it was the breeding season of the caribou. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It is four days before the season’s opening game. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Each season she grew more shrunken and dilapidated, surrendering her sturdy hull and deck to the ravages of woodworms, barnacles, and weather. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just one season in the big leagues before an injury ended my career.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z The tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary from age, enfeebled, dry. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “All of our saber girls are graduating next year, so I need a new saber squad ready for next season. You’d be in our starting lineup.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z There was the smell of furniture polish; the dust and dirt of the past season were forever wiped away. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been preparing for this season the moment the last one had ended eight months earlier. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was springtime, the velvet hat out of season by then. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It embarrassed Ben when he realized he had not seen Toomer at all since basketball season had begun. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone knows, of course, that the seasoned players will probably be selected again. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was beyond anyone’s wildest imagination to think I could win the biggest international meet of the season, especially my first time, so Mom felt safe shaking on our deal. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z What made him seek this quarter of the house at an untimely season, when he should have been asleep in bed? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Papers were signed; the art of seasoning was revealed to Ralph, the key to crispiness. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, too late, they'll attempt to promote liver spots as the season's most sophisticated accessory. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She couldn’t imagine what she would do if the season was over now. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Last week, Roosevelt lost to Ballard High in the District Championship, so the cross-country season is over. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Kelley was assigned to a helicopter piloted by Major Jones, a tough, seasoned pilot. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z When the rainy season fell on us in Kilanga, it fell like a plague. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He had told them how the houses were made and the weapons were forged, how the pots were laid in hot coals for many days to season them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It was well seasoned, and Whymper had advised Napoleon to sell it; both Mr. Pilkington and Mr. Frederick were anxious to buy it. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z There had not been another serious trader since, even though this was the season for it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z August was in the dry season of Bas-Congo, and normally we’d go months without a drop, but it was like the weather had decided to join in the political upheaval. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Frog’s experience was limited to practice yard and tourney ground, so he did not think it was his place to dispute the verdict of such a seasoned warrior. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z All in all, she was doing well, but she had yet to get through the dry season. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He recognized the signs of the Zamani Region’s monsoon season fast approaching. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “You need to focus on your season too.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The first is the athlete’s performance: that is, how well he or she has played in a specific game, or series, or season. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “I know the breeding season’s over, but everything’s so topsy-turvy with us here that there’s no saying.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z While the treasure stayed safely under the sea, I stayed with Osh and Miss Maggie on the Elizabeths and learned how the stars changed with the seasons, and how we did, too. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z As the seasons changed outside the windows, as the weeping willows shed their million leaves, as snow fell on the flat roof and the angle of sunlight declined, Desdemona remained in bed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “You dig one plant, leave two plant; dig one, leave two. So plant come back next season. And ask plant permission.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Everywhere but on the north-facing slopes and in the shadowy ravines, the snowpack had melted down to bare ground, exposing the previous seasons rose hips and lingonberries, which McCandless gathered and ate in great quantity. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Fourth reason I don’t like him is because he kills deer out of season. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z After a couple cold blocks, I called an end to my boarding season and started to walk. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “Octavian,” said he, “have any voices presented themselves to you — speaking in remote quarters — which you might not, in other seasons, hearken to?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Despite the difficult weather and the erratic performance of boat number one, things were progressing very well; the time trials were promising for so early in the season. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z As Mabinty Bangura, I danced on my bare toes in the mud of the rainy season, disturbing the breeding mosquitoes, who would rise up in anger and bite me—bringing malaria. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a stunningly sunny day; Congo had entered its rainy season, with its dramatic showers followed by clean and invigorating sunshine. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Olinski confessed that it was her favorite season and told Nadia that she sometimes felt guilty because she thought she ought to prefer spring, with its pledge to make the lilies bloom again. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the season, we captured the bronze medal at the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “I’ve been thinking—there’s not too much to do around here during the hunting season. I’m pretty sure I can take care of things, so you just go ahead and hunt all you want to.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a week before the season would be in full swing, and the golf and surf clubs were getting ready to open. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “It feels like our first season,” she said finally. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The night brought a deep cold—an unmistakable sign of the lateness of the season — and she shivered as she waited. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “Winter is one of my favorite seasons,” she said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Grandma Gilbreth was born in Maine, where she said the seasons were Winter, July and August. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z With the changing of the season he was scarce. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z His ear had been throbbing for about two months, and it was just one of several ailments that had come up during the course of the season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Those fissures would fade to a gentler violet as monsoon season drew nearer, but they’d never truly disappear. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I ate the pumpkin pie because the lady said it was in season, and Patrick and Sam smoked more cigarettes. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The workers woke early, and for the first few months they were “seasoned”—learning the numbing work of hoeing or weeding or loading the barges with cut cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Shirley looks through my paintings of the rendering sails, the discharge facility, Heather’s Bucket of Broth, my house in all seasons. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The sidewalks turned to tunnels; cars were lost for the season. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Leaks, leaks—no roof could keep them out during rainy season. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “We don’t use this area in the rainy season,” said the She Elephant. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z None of my basketball teammates were injured, so I consider football season to be a complete success and I know that Coach agrees. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the night, when Alejandro locked the door behind us, he sighed through his nose and said, “Just not chili season yet.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He loved watermelon; when it was in season, he ate it at all three meals. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Not in the town, where all that was natural had long been sacrificed, but on its outskirts, one could still see the passing of the seasons. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The men’s admissions pattern was analogous to Gehrig’s hitting pattern—coming to bat more often during the second half of the season when getting a hit is easier. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We each have but one pair, much needed during this dry season when the earth stings. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The whole season—nine months of preparation—came down to just two major races. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Next grapefruit season we were right back at it, though—picking, making signs, and selling. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z A life of frequent concerns that the next interception may not work, that the trap or the drive will fail, or that the herds will not appear this season. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, it was divided into football, basketball, and baseball seasons. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z The system thus entered on, I pursued during the whole season of probation; and with the best success. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z In just the first two seasons, 100,000 pounds of ancient bones were excavated from the site, and tens of thousands of pounds more came in each of the half dozen years that followed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z As the Christmas season approached, Durham was as bitterly divided as ever. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s marble season; everyone has marbles in their pockets. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z West Riding, scarcely five miles from the Royal City, was known far and wide as the staging ground for the Royal Hunt — and hunting season had already begun. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess it happens every year, but it always hits me how messed up the season is. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z She told him, “The huntress has invited me to ride with them on their first hunt of the season.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They grated plantains, green bananas, yautías, and yucca, into bowls, seasoned the mixture, spooned mounds of it onto roasted banana leaves, and dropped chunks of savory meat into the centers of the mounds. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z As precious as the first potatoes of the season, small and sweet like Georgia peanuts. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Nelson says it was our offenses that brought on this rainy season. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They had worked hard to keep their team together, and the season had fallen apart anyway. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z In the rainy season, the river would rise up and flood the streets, and we would have to leave home in a hurry. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z As a seasoned test pilot, Glenn knew that the only way to remove all danger from the mission was to never leave Earth. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Glass cabinets contain beauty-scopes—tiny brass kaleidoscopes clustered by season and year—featuring images of the kingdom's best and brightest courtiers, taken by the Orléans press corps. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z When autumn came, he knew that part at least of his heart would think more kindly of journeying, as it always did at that season. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Less than three hours after their best soccer of the season, they were beaten 2-1. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The mills kept going as long as there was cane to grind—the season varied between four and ten months, depending on the local growing conditions. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “I play shortstop when I seven year old. I play one season. Pretty good too. Maybe would have become professional one day if I have time.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The other members of the varsity were screaming, whipping themselves up into a lather now that the season had officially started and they were strutting their skills before the newcomers. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Sitting on the bench in the middle of the last regular season game against San Angelo, he had said he could care less if he played anymore. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is my season to read this book. I know this story well. I’ve read it many times. But it is my season to reflect on certain passages.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Harrison assembled Indiana and Kentucky rangers—seasoned Indian killers—and some US Army regulars. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z It was the growing season, May or June, and they had food to spare. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Presently its sound reached her ears and the throb of the engines reminded her that this was the beginning of the season when bush pilots took the gussaks out to hunt. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, much could be done between the end of work and the coming of full dark, which was later now than in the winter seasons. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “I don’t want ’em stinking up the garbage, ’cause they’re out of season. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Yeah, this feels far worse than the evil eye B-Cubed threw my way after ending my season three years ago. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z That's when Coach started his boring speech about how proud he was to have us on the team, and how great the season was going to be. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z After all, if I asked too many questions, I could draw attention to the fact that I had no friends, and it’d be open season for nonstop teasing. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She thought it was from eating too much food; it was the season of golden peaches, apricots, and young com cooked with basil in clay casseroles. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I decide to kiss her on the lips, and, because it’s not officially basketball season yet, I do just that. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z One chorus described the changing of seasons, from fall to winter, from winter to spring, and how water changes from water to steam to rain to snow. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z After winning third all-around and first on floor at Nationals, I was super excited to end the season as the US Challenge Pre-Elite All-Around Champion for 2010. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Boobie might only miss two or three games of the season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a basketball game, last game of the season. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Most songs my father set to writing were finished in a single season, while this one was stretching toward its second year. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It was hard to become an old, seasoned trouper when you painted poison on yourself every third day and ended up raving mad by the time you were twenty-five. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But Christmas Eve was like any other day during the holiday season. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z The second the season was over they became vague, fuzzy shapes, as indistinguishable as the thick clouds that skimmed across the sky into the horizon. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Every year in the dry season, when travel is possible, our cooperative gains a few new families. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z All seasons, and their change; all please alike. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z I said, “Right. And maybe it is provided by my family too. The Buttles who came before me. The ones who planted the orchard. Before the place even had a first apple season.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z The air was gentle as though a summer day had lingered beyond its season, but Gwydion’s words chilled him like a sudden cold wind. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z “There was no regret,” observed the Chicago Tribune, “rather a feeling of pleasure that the elements and not the wrecker should wipe out the spectacle of the Columbian season.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When gathering wild grains, they took care to lay aside part of the harvest to sow the fields next season. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It remains for me a season of storms. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Samuel thinks it may be the water they use, which comes from a separate spring that rims clear even in the dry season. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The seasons came and went, the short animal lives fled by. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Then, one evening, it rained, a flinty blustery rain, a strange shower in the dry season, and perhaps it was why Odenigbo did not go to the bar. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Mr Wormwood's fine crop of black hair was now a dirty silver, the colour this time of a tightrope-walker's tights that had not been washed for the entire circus season. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z In fact at the present rate of decline this Saturday will probably be the end of your season and then you will join the 1986 team in history. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The Associated Press, making its predictions for the season, had picked Permian to win it all. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The demands of haying season had not kept the crowds away. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Even better than that was the Christmas season. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Two: The new season of Queen of Neat premiered in a few short hours, and Abby was staying to watch it with me. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I liked to think that he dreamed of ducks and doves, waiting for hunting season, when he would spring into action and work hard for a couple of weeks like, well, a dog. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Passage to Africa during the fair-sailing season—roughly, May to October—would have put the seasonal winds behind the ship’s sails. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The small brown tubers under the soil would be available throughout the dry season. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There was sports news about the recreation department basketball season, with the total wins and losses so far for each of the fifth-grade teams. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z “No one else scheduled down here until harvest season when the grain comes down the Mississippi.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “They got five losing seasons in a row?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z “Something that will take less time during soccer season. Maybe some painting or...” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The months and seasons of searching dragged into years. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When seasoned by the subtleties of accident, harmony, favor, wisdom, and inevitability, luck takes on the cast of serendipity. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He spoke of his friend’s dislike of the burning heats, the hurricanes, and rainy seasons of that region. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z By the end of the season Salatin’s animals will have transformed his grasses into an astounding amount of food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z This morning was fair with little wind, yet it was the season of the year when storms could be looked for, so I understood why the Russian wished to move onto our island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z But how could I do this to Earth Mother, especially during planting season? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z It being February, we were in the middle of basketball season. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z It was track season; she’d find her father in the back of the school with Coach Douglas. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Besides, he said, crossing his fingers, this was volcano season down in Mexico. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There were oversize black-and-white numbers taped to hallway walls, signs screaming at passersby to count down the days until the first game of the season. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z In the months following the Fugees' 2006 season, a number of problems seemed to shrink, or at least become more manageable. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Talk on the church steps afterward was mostly about the football team and its undefeated season. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z When he took the job, the only piece of advice he was given by the outgoing superintendent was never to promise anyone Permian season tickets. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Of these, four were seasoned smokers who took long, contemplative drags and occasionally demonstrated their proficiency by blowing ghostly concentric rings that hovered like halos above their bowed heads. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “An average tree will give twenty gallons in a season,” Mr. Chris said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z I knew it was killing her to have to sit out the season because she loves sports. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z The season came round, and off they went to the meet in splendid armour which reduced the risk of injury to a foxhunter’s minimum. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z For obscure places or sailings out of season, he had to make do with passage to someplace near his destination and complete his journey aboard smaller coastal craft or overland. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “During the spring and autumn bird-migration season, the lights that illuminate the tower are turned off on foggy nights so they won’t confuse birds, causing them to fly into the building.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I felt a oneness with the trees that changed their leafy vestments with the seasons. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Whenever one of us can't bear it any longer, we ask the other a question: What is your favorite season? The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z CBS proudly advertised Orson Welles's radio program as “the brightest sensation of the drama season.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z But when the seasons brought the fourth around, as long months waned, and the slow days were spent, one of her maids, who knew the secret, told us. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The rivers in the area were small, almost drying out in the dry season, and swelling in the rainy season. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Too many bears. Most people go there during the hunting season.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “That 1988 season is four and a half minutes away,” Gaines said quietly with a little smile still on his lips. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Between tournament fees, airplane tickets, hotel costs, and food, the average cost to compete in one World Cup competition was around $2,000, and there were eight World Cups a season. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z VH1 had its best ratings ever for the first season of Flavor of Love—ratings driven by large white audiences. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Platters of duck and partridge, rabbit and bird eggs, and seasoned venison passed by in dizzying numbers. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z It was about two inches on a side, little more than a scrap, and aged to the color of last season’s straw. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Much of the island is submerged during the rainy season, and even in the dry summer pieces of the mazy shoreline are constantly calving off like icebergs and falling into the water. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It can feel cold here, in the early-morning haze of the dry season. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Smith had avoided Rosemont earlier in the season not because he feared Seabiscuit would lose, but because he feared his horse would win, prompting the racing secretary to assign him heavy weight for the hundred-grander. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Sundays were dreary days in that wintry season. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z They had lost to the Rebels and instead of winning the district championship and guaranteeing themselves a trip to the playoffs, there might be only one game left in the season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a sweltering afternoon, but Roy had resigned himself to the fact that there was no change of seasons in South Florida, only mild variations of summer. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In October the dry season ended and it began to rain. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I scoop the Spam into a serving bowl and add two eggs and seasoning salt, and I chop up the last few pieces of old bread we have. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Antoine Thomas of Lake Windsor High School broke my record midway through his sophomore season. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “There is the meeting in the afternoon regarding next season’s ballet schedule.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Early spring is a poor season for fishing. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z There is an episode in the sixth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation called “Chain of Command.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Normally she drops hints, showing him catalogues, but he has no clue as to what she’s coveting this season, if it’s a new pair of gloves or a wallet or new pajamas she’d like. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She had seen her several times during the season, but neither ever spoke. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Public fact becomes private reality, and the seasons of a Midwestern town become the Moirai of our small lives. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Toby had tried out for football their freshman year, and even though he had made it through the whole season without getting hurt or, honestly, getting into a game, he wasn’t made for sports. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The water had subsided and would probably disappear by the end of the dry season. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The points accumulated from all of these competitions would make up the US national rankings, and the top four finishers qualified for the national team for the following season. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z You could no more imagine a season of Ebola flu than you could imagine a nuclear war. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though she’d faced down a demon and tricked the seasons, this was the first time she felt like she’d done something magical. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I seasoned it with salt, pepper, and sage, then warmed a loaf of flatbread near the fire and broke open the wax on the cheese. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In the fall they depend on goldenrod at a season when no other food is available, to stock up for the winter. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z At the tail end of the crab season Call came home. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Trees stand like spears, dried copper leaves from the previous season still clinging to a few of the branches. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z You see your name up in lights and people follow you and they put your name in the newspaper and then all of a sudden the season is over. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Even in a single season, with orchards sprayed four or more times, DDT residues may build up to peaks of 30 to 50 pounds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This early in the season—it was still early April—there were hardly any cars in the park, so we treated Skyline Drive as a kind of broad, paved, alternative footpath. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Spending two weeks holed up with Clancy had made keeping up with the season’s bipolar tendencies even harder. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z And he was. pleased when his second son’s wife bore also in her season, and she gave birth to a girl first as was fitting and it was seemly out of respect to her sister-in-law. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “This is my job during nomination season. This publication lists every job classification the Bureau has to offer. What positions you are allowed to pursue depends on both your potential and your ability.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z He’s an accountant, and because he sometimes works really late hours during tax season, he had the walls filled with extra insulation for warmth and soundproofing. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z When Marti Peterson arrived in Russia, her fellow agents at the CIA's Moscow station were struggling to shake off a long season of hibernation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z There was frozen beef and pork, but it was last season’s. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The second day of the hunting season I stuck my head out of my door and decided my yard was messy. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z In his entire first season as keeper, Kanue gave up only three goals. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “Coach used to always have us go to mass during the season, and I guess I got in the habit.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Every year around Thanksgiving, he went hunting in West Virginia, where he and some buddies rented a house for the opening of the deer season. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He nailed a pair of horns to one end and then retired to his cabin until deer season was over. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z To millions of Americans, the season’s first robin means that the grip of winter is broken. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In it were larks and a rabbit seasoned with herbs and colored yellow with saffron. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Henrietta and Day were lucky if they sold enough tobacco each season to feed the family and plant the next crop. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z As the regular season’s close drew nearer and nearer, the Brooklyn lead grew more and more narrow. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z In 1932 and 1933 it took away the food crop harvest and next season's seed in the Soviet states that produced most of the nation's grain—Ukraine, the Caucasus, and Kazakhstan. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z She has a gold pin on her perfectly ironed blazer, in honor of the current tournament season, and a clipboard tucked under one arm. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The planting season was over, but if the weather didn’t turn too cold before the vegetables ripened, she ought to get some results. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Two weeks later, we traveled up the road for our first game of the season. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The rebels had stocked up for the rainy season, but now we were the beneficiaries of the looted food and provisions. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Since the season written about in Outcasts United, Coach Luma has continued to expand her programs for the Fugees in amazing ways. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z He also says somewhere that ‘the rooks, in the breeding season, attempt sometimes, in the gaiety of their hearts, to sing—but with no great success.’ The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z There were wonderful trees along the promenade above the beach, and there were many children sent down with their nurses before the season opened. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “Basketball season is here, and it’s time to pick another cheer captain. Hannah put in her two cents, and I agree with her.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Forty days after the last warm day, deep into the windy season. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z In the short break marked by the dry season, from November through February, you busied yourself with side tasks. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Flanked on either side by not just one, but two wild cards in the Phoenix Riders’ first match of the season. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was strong on his tongue, the kind of concentrated palm wine tapped in the dry season that made men in his village start to stagger too soon. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Rain filled it in the rainy season; even now it was half-full of water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The Christmas season was Santa Claus for us; people had expensive presents lying all over their houses. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Even late in the dry season, these lands hold enough water to grow grasses to feed our cattle. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Every morning he soaped his chest and arms and neck and feet—and about twice during the season he got into the bathtub and cleaned all of his parts. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It wasn’t until they got back into Coach’s car after the movie that Kanue finally asked Luma not to cancel the season. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The breeding season was over, and she was molting. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z But I was not a very active participant in that season of protest. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the season he had a silver watch with his name engraved on the back to prove it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “But this past season—I know you remember, ’cause I couldn’t keep you away from them—they were so sweet and thick they made ordinary sugar be ’shamed.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z They did not know for sure, but they suspected that the dances were beyond nasty because the music was getting worse and worse with each passing season the Lord waited to make Himself known. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1928, their first full season together, they took the racing world by storm. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the rainy season and we were wet all the time, with no dry clothes to change into. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z José Arcadio Buendía spent the long months of the rainy season shut up in a small room that he had built in the rear of the house so that no one would disturb his experiments. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z War Admiral could go into his scheduled retirement at season’s end without anyone accusing him of dodging the best competition. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He certainly had a great season two years before this in which they got everybody on top of the summit, which is extraordinary. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z There was not much he could do about the peelers in our floats, except hope the storm would leave him a few of the floats and spare his crab shanty for one more season. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Today was the first day of football season for the Lake Windsor High Seagulls. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But he also warned that “difficult days” still lay ahead, that “We are still in for a season of suffering.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Our house had a roof made of dried, thatched grasses and three rooms—a kitchen and two small rooms where we slept and, during the long rainy season, where we played. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Riding with several groups of Indians in high fire season, he spent days on end in a scorched land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As the holiday season neared, my dad seemed finally to shake his blues. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Many more seasons than she has lived, it seems to her, many more. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Marly did not say so to Daddy, or to Joe either, but she hated hunting season. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “I think they’ll all be disappointed even if they do find it. Nothing’s gonna change this place,” he said, his tone changing from serious and reflective to that of a seasoned actor’s. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z It was the peak of the planting season, and the nights spent on the hard ground took their toll of men whose endurance was needed for the hard daily work in the fields. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z We were agrarian, unsophisticated, industrious people, Jews and Christians alike, whose lives revolved around family, our religious calendars, and the seasons of sowing and reaping. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The tragedy that’s coming will finish the season for him, the only good thing to come out of what’s about to happen. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Then, a couple of weeks later, they began training me on level five skills and signed me up for my first competitive season, which ran from August to November. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z After all, who in town could possibly forget the debacle of the 1986 season, Gaines’s first, when the team had gone only seven and two and didn’t even make the playoffs? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The best lies are seasoned with a bit of truth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A few days after basketball season ended, I e-mailed Rowdy and told him I was sorry that we beat them so bad and that their season went to hell after that. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z A great season by a baseball player in his prime will likely be followed by a less impressive season. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When the school track season began in February, Louie set out to see what training had done for him. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “And now,” Mr. Brademas continues, “on to happier matters. It’s time to congratulate our baseball team on their championship season this past spring.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Nothing will convince him that his fortunes might not suddenly reverse, reducing him to a diet of fingernail clippings or soups made from fallen leaves and seasoned with flashlight batteries. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “That should make you happy. You can see the seasons change as you come and go. What do you say to that?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I start to feel exactly what I try to avoid feeling during basketball season—in love—and I’m equal parts happy and annoyed. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, of course, since this was the first Friday of the season, Coach was taking the newbies out for dinner. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “I’d like to take you somewhere once basketball season is over,” Russ says. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It gave Permian a regular season record of eight and two, and both losses had been by a single point each. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z In the kitchen, I fix some grits without no seasoning, and put them baby marshmallows on top. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Later in the afternoon clouds drifted over the mountains, over the Little Baldy: it was the rainy season; hail began to fall. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Kanue, Natnael, and especially Mandela had put their hopes and energy into this new version of their team, and Luma wondered if she was setting them up for failure by keeping the season alive. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z He had played second-string quarterback during the 1957 season, but he threw a mean pass and had a great running game too. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z But just as in his freshman season, he showed glimmers of promise. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z "They are men, Robb, seasoned in battle. You were fighting with wooden swords less than a year past." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When the referee blew his whistle, the score was 3-1, and the Under Fifteens’ season was over. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z But somehow or another, as the season went on, I became a freshman starter on a varsity basketball team. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z He kill this one out of season, he’ll figure maybe he can. kill some more. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She described the season’s ongoing theme as “charitable crafts” because “it’s not just our own lives that get messy.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Not one single thing did she ever achieve but that it had to be done all over again, one day or one week or one season later. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z They were reminders of a beloved season that had once again passed too quickly. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Of course not. You can only shoot at what’s in season.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z A community clean-up campaign might be worthwhile for a slack season, at that. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z You probably know that in 1927, Babe Ruth hit his famous sixty home runs in a single season. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Like everyone else, he wanted the season to go on forever. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she says, “I meant to ask, did your family open the apple stand this season?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z By the end of my first season, even though I hadn’t quite distinguished myself as the world’s best épée fencer, I was in great shape. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The natural seasons for chicken are the spring and summer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He showed them how to chop carrots and blanch greens, shifting our family away from the fluorescent sameness of the grocery store and toward the rhythm of the seasons. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Tell them peregrine falcons are nesting here. I’m sure when they hear that, they’ll want to wait until the nesting season is over. These are very special birds.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The four seasons were coloured like the edge of a rose petal for them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Certain stars rise just before or set just after the Sun—and at times and positions that vary with the seasons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Over lunch in Boston Common, Felix learned she had season tickets in LA. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Additionally, the government decreed that no more than four expeditions would be allowed on the Nepalese flanks each season. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z She had been coaching some of them since her first season, when they were younger than ten years old. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Winter was long here, and in the good weather seasons they prepared for it: growing, catching, storing things away. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The season was slipping away, the fabled cry of “State in eighty-eight!” that had been etched on the backs of cars and scribbled in yearbooks a minute away from becoming a failed dream. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars has days and nights of about the same length as ours, and seasons which last twice as long. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Gearing up for the basketball season, I would go on these epic runs all around town, and I—okay, I admit it—I’d run by her house more than once. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The final regular season football game ended with Big Creek winning big over Tazewell High School, just across the Virginia border. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the reason for this was that the boar season happened in the two winter months, when the old English snow would be liable to ball in your horse’s hoofs and render galloping too dangerous. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Planting season would begin again in two moons’ time, and the people now turned their prayers to the next year’s harvest. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Luma viewed that victory as the turning point of the Under Thirteens’ season, the game in which they found confidence and a sense of team identity. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I couldn’t help but notice a change in more than the seasons. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The season would be a poor one, unless the water in the other rice beds had been lower. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Last season it had taken him his first four games to get three touchdown passes, and he only had eleven the entire season in fifteen games. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I laughed because Nsukka s untarred roads coat cars with dust in the harmattan and with sticky mud in the rainy season. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Everyone wanted the honor of hiding him for the night; the women wove him ponchos and winter socks and the men saved him their best brandy and the best dried beef of the season. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Seven and one heading into the bye week ain’t too shabby. That’s quite a first half to our season. Now we need to sustain it. No letdowns.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z “I guess that makes them think it’s open season or something.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z They stood in the strawberry fields early one July morning just after picking season was finished. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He would not go until the cotton season was over, and that was sometime in February. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “And apparently, the only seasoning is salt. Is this supposed to be some kind of desi dish?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I leaf through a copy, pausing at an article about keeping your hot bikini body through the holiday season, before stuffing them into my bag. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z He constantly worried that we would not have enough money saved at the end of the cotton season to carry us over the winter months. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The voyage supposedly took three years, with frequent stops in the foul-sailing season to build temporary settlements and sow crops for the next year’s push. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “Well, I’m so glad y’all could join me for a brand-new season of Queen of Neat,” she said to an eruption of clapping and hollering from the live audience. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z But now, what was on his mind was the hunting season. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Optimistic ranchers were predicting an “open winter”—a season so bland that cattle could graze during the whole of it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Diligent mice tended the neat little vegetable patches which every season gave forth an abundance of fresh produce: cabbages, sprouts, marrows, turnips, peas, carrots, tomatoes, lettuces and onions, all in their turn. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z When he woke up, it felt like a whole season later because he was warm, and the light through the leaves above was bright and sparkling. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z When they went forth from Oldtown, it was for one purpose only: to herald a change of seasons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Berg had been a mediocre ballplayer at best, hitting .243 over fifteen big league seasons as a backup catcher. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Elizabeth was hunched over her sewing machine, intent on getting a new dress ready for the Christmas season, and it is yet another green gown, cheap and frail. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She’d make her final decision about the team’s season based on how those tryouts went. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “No. I mean, the season hasn’t started yet. Hopefully Mom will forget by the time it does.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z The previous season, she had been so impressed by Prince’s talent on the field that she allowed him to get away with skirting the team rules. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “This looks like it’s going to be an off season.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know, bears are not in season,” I added sternly, to hide my shock. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Our beloved football team loses the state semifinals, which concludes my inaugural varsity cheerleading season at Decatur High. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z In season, they fed on acorns, berries, wild plums, prickly-pear apples, grass, weeds, and bulb plants which they rooted out of the ground. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Brian Chavez, starting both ways at tight end and defensive end after missing the first game of the season because of an ankle injury, walks through the locker room shirtless, his body drenched with sweat. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I did so, and the tiger hesitated, then fled—something to do with the seasoning, it seemed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z How maybe the season wasn't going as good as he wanted. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “It’s the rainy season; there’s little work in the fields during this time, and my back is getting worse.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Did I want to change what had happened to me this season? Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Few Alpharetta lawns sprouted campaign signs during the last election season because the area’s four contenders for the state legislature and a new candidate for Congress were all Republicans and ran unopposed. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He had been in a terrible mood the last few days because he was not sure where we would work now that the grape season was almost over. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z But they also had subscriptions to the Philadelphia Orchestra and its Sunday chamber concert series, as well as season tickets to the Phillies. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Bruce Herrod is now presumed dead, the twelfth casualty of the season. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The heat of the arguments lasts for weeks, like too much sun in the warm season. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z They all knew that changes in jobs were arranged during the Christmas season. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The sword shone with the knowledge that dawn was a small beginning compared to the ending of a season: the ending of a year. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I wonder if old people ever look back on their lives and see it in terms of seasons. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z By watching the seasons, he knew he had been in captivity almost a year. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z On the second play of the game, Comer went sixty- four yards for a touchdown, his seventh of the season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “You have seen that the pond is only a puddle now. Winter is coming, and the dry season. And this fighting.” A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It seems that this season of sowing is not simply about planting flax and wheat. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z They were about ten seconds off the pace he was looking for at this point in the season. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The road deteriorated into a path scarred by deep ruts from the rainy season. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z CBS didn’t even bother promoting All in the Family before its first season. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z It’s a short day again—a dry season until Christmas catering, Jorge says. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z And a little later in the season there would be red and yellow stands of Indian paintbrush. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Many meetings were held in the big barn, and the pigs occupied themselves with planning out the work of the coming season. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Seabiscuit had worked faster than any horse had raced the entire season. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Open season until the second week of February. It’s just...” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “The worst season of the year,” a voice was grumbling. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “We play Holy Guardian on Tuesday, and then we’re at home on Friday against Frederickstown again. Over halfway through the season already,” Ellis says. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Helda, on May’s orders, kept the Korean foodstuffs down here, the earthenware jars of pickled vegetables and meats, the fermented seasoning pastes and sauces, strips of dried seafood. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was difficult to remember any season more emotionally wearing than this one. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I use cloves, too, and lots more seasoned salt. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The sun was shining hot, like it thought it was still July, and November drizzles were a whole season away. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Though it wasn’t even the end of June, we tasted the first sweet corn of the season. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She would have to conserve as much of her other stores as possible for the dry season, which was coming. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Years, seasons, and various weather had gone into the braids; and when she undid them at night they fell to her waist. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The boys and a handful of reporters were waiting for Al Ulbrickson to lay out his plan for the upcoming racing season. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z So says Matthew, backed up by Mark I ask you, is it the fig tree’s fault that it’s not the season for figs? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Tonight’s the night,” he once shouted as he ran into Buck’s apartment near the end of a race season, “the Cougar howls!” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They naturally took comfort in each other’s society and were much together, riding, walking, dancing, or dawdling, for at Nice no one can be very industrious during the gay season. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Today was our second game of the season, and our first home game at Tangerine Middle. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z To the left was the resort of Bray, a cheerful front of cafes and little shops that in a normal season would be renting out beach chairs and pedal bikes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But for the season as a whole, Lou Gehrig has a higher batting average than Babe Ruth. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It isn’t the right season for swimming, but we find a pretty 1-piece that is a size too big on a clearance rack. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z She would have to stay on the island until the next dry season. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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