Sometimes an owner forgets we are coming or forgets to leave a key under the mat or changes his or her mind about the service without thinking to notify Ted. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, Dad and I get up early for services. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Survival is a continuous negotiation, as you have to barter covertly for every service the government pretends to provide, but actually doesn’t. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house was an altar with ten thousand attendants, big, small, servicing, attending, in choirs. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a needed service in the Colonies, where land was usually a wilderness without roads. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1900, at age twenty-six, he had risen in the ranks of the merchant service, carrying mail and cargo around the British Empire. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Attend the services of your Church, especially the prayer services. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Upon release, even more fees may attach, including parole or probation service fees. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I reminded Kim that you’ve worked here for a decade, that you could still be of service. He said there was a position available.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I have been to many religious services over the years. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow’s the Ceremony, according to the calendar, so tonight Serena wants me serviced, and if I’m not there she’ll find out why, and then what? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How does that relate to our community service project?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then I shook each sleepy limb, each screaming muscle back into service and half slid, half climbed back down the tree to the ground. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It isn’t the Plaza Hotel four-star service, but it will do. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, its agricultural extension service does not recommend spraying as a community method of control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Twenty-one hours on the surface of the Moon for two astronauts in the lunar lander, while the service module circled the heavenly body in a parking orbit. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I discovered this from a public service announcement that I saw late one night on television. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

J acknowledge the truth of what he is saying, but tell him that I am trained and ready to be of service. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Veiled in black, she hurried from the funeral services. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says real low, “Betty Dean, I want you to behave yourself today in church, you hear me? Don’t think I didn’t see you and your friends passing notes during service last week.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After the service ended we set out seven hundred strong, the regular winter throng of the Devon School, to hustle through our lists of appointments. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And not only did long-lost members of the family show up, but they usually turned the whole service out with screaming and hollering. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

That's because she had to call from the hospital and cancel our cleaning service, and she had to do that because of me. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I won’t be going to the planet. The Chancellor made clear my service is needed here.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A grave had been dug close to the lane that ran the length of the cemetery, and as the service began, a black Rolls-Royce drew up, the back door opened, and a man got out. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

So my interest in the service’s potential and my aversion to Reverend Thomas caused me to turn him off. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“None of our work or service matters if we are not alive to reap the benefits—” Glish stops abruptly. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“My brothers and I are at your service,” he told the girl. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Plenty of service wiring, but it takes a long time to get to it.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their sentences could include community service, counseling, and even jail time. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The Evening Service was over very quickly, and afterward one of the younger men chanted the Havdalah, the brief service that marks the end of the Shabbat. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

There was always some kind of black church service going on somewhere, and we tried them all. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The last bequest was for Loomis Toy, “the sum of fifty dollars in appreciation of his loyal service to the store and my family.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We had our own internal intelligence service because we knew that certain men were weak in this regard. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Civil service reform in the late nineteenth century reduced patronage and corruption and introduced a merit system that allowed blacks to get a foot in the door. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But Shae was a guard in service to the King; it didn’t matter who her parents were. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Has she been in his service ever since?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

And throughout the whole beginning of the service, Ma would peer down the pew to make sure we were behaving, which was hard because we always sat in the row with the stinky Thomases. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I convinced them to open a DVD library in the corner of the store, like a public service preserving our cinematic history. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

This last service performed for his friend would cause Sverrisson years of enmity from certain members of the RJF Committee and others who felt close to Bobby during his Icelandic years. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"I hereby convey to the bearer of this paper the services of my former apprentice—" The man paused. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Several people asked questions to hear themselves talk and there were a couple of questions asked by news service men who wanted to know the answers. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

After service is over, everyone files into the church basement for “fellowship.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“All the municipal services are doing what they can under tremendously difficult circumstances,” Father Franco said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The word of his death at sea provoked a colitis attack that kept Ernest bedridden for four days, until he roused himself and hobbled, ashen, into an East Bay church for Mills’s memorial service. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Finally, Shady started the service with a reading from the Bible. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A little while after they were gone a steward went through announcing the first service, and pilgrims, with their priests, commenced filing down the corridor. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Criminally accused people facing trial are entitled to treatment and services. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Our Sunday services were held at two P.M. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

To augment the small income from the service station, C.P. got a job as an unskilled maintenance worker at Duke University. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Until the 1950s, when it became a civil service post, the job was a political appointment, often bestowed on men who knew nothing whatsoever about running a prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His name was Jude Greene, and with the pick of some eight or ten girls who came regularly to services to hear him sing, he had chosen Nel Wright. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll talk more about the public service project tomorrow,” says Ms. Oliverio as everybody packs up their books to change classes. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The crowd parts, and a tattooed guy rolls in on a skateboard, skidding to a stop in front of the service desk. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

They had child protection services and things like that. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

What comfort could he get from a Christian service? Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above it, a hundred to each floor, were the seven thousand rooms used by Solidarity Groups for their fortnight services. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went there for the doughnuts they always had after the service. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

With each service, the rumor spread, and the crowds grew. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Sunday school service ended there was a short pause before morning service began. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Once more they filled their canteens at a service station on the eastern edge of the town. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Don’t forget,” the woman said, “they get up ever so early for the services.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

For the first time ever, I actually envied him the luxury of getting dressed up and leaving the house and rushing around all day, with purpose, all in the service of a pay cheque. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just one day in the life of a man in a city with no services. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It had once been a private home, but its owner went off to train as a minister, and when he came back he held services in his living room. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It has been lucrative work, augmented by a group that for years has been in constant need of his services: U.S.-funded Nicaraguan contras across the border. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As day dawned on Friday, streetcar service resumed. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

If this is indeed the case, you have only to say the word and I will offer my services gratis for an indefinite period of time. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

When we returned home from the service at St. Paul’s Chapel, Madam explained that my day off would begin as soon as I had finished serving the midday mcai. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

No reply, though both Lyddie and Betsy knew that Amelia was reminding them that it was the Sabbath and neither of them had gone to services earlier. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I may be pardoned my naivete; I was but eight, and had given little thought to service and recompense. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There’s a letter apologizing for the bad customer service. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her for everything that she had to do for him, he would have tolerated her service more easily. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

There would have been a kiddush after the service, with challah rolls, potatoes, chicken—my stomach growled just thinking about it. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve given up on rehabilitation, education, and services for the imprisoned because providing assistance to the incarcerated is apparently too kind and compassionate. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Scruggs read briefly from the Book of Daniel, then sat in the front row and listened quietly to the service. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The latter were looked upon with some suspicion because they were so loud and raucous in their services. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Love is a noble cause. How can anything done in the service of a noble cause be wrong?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Of course, one seeks to provide a general, sustained service to one's employer, the value of which could never be reduced to a number of specific instances - such as that concerning Lord Halifax. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

After a few days at Hearth- side, I feel the service ethic kick in like a shot of oxytocin, the nurturance hormone. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now, as she walked into the bank, she saw Obinze at the customer service section. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The streets had become so congested that the city issued an emergency decree to suspend the trolley service until after the parade because there was no room for the passengers to disembark downtown. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

For the duration of the plumber’s visit, canning jars were put into service during the daytime to hold our calls of nature. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Dove and Dusty were to be bribed into service by the promise of delivering the basin to Mr. Hancock when done. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually after service we went down to the basement and had cake, fried or baked chicken, and string beans. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Vernon Madison from Mobile said that the prosecutor struck all ten black people qualified for jury service in his case. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"I hope I have helped in some small way to put your mind at ease. If there is any other service I might perform, you need only ask." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

These two kids are here for my walking service, the crown jewel of my business. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“As you probably all guessed, Hendricks is doing community service with us now.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

In his systematic fashion he continued to refine the company’s infrastructure and services—and continued to be extraordinarily successful at escorting amateur climbers to the summits of big, remote mountains. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

On Sundays he went to services, which were held inside one of the classrooms. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You have the voice of an angel,” Reverend Tweed told her as he shook her hand after the service. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was after the service, when he asked Pastor Early to marry his father and mother, that he had learned the truth. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Since Burger was an accomplished artist and violin player, he was instructed to set up a studio and advertise his services as a commercial artist in the Chicago Tribune newspaper. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Harry was polishing his Firebolt, the broomstick servicing kit Hermione had given him for his thirteenth birthday open at his feet. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

During the first two years on the island, we were not even permitted to leave our cells for Sunday services. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But what kind of service did you expect if you've never ridden in a cab before?” Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They could be of greater service outside than inside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For her services, Bibi received no income but was given meals, provisions, and sufficient meters of cotton at every October holiday to replenish her wardrobe at an inexpensive tailor. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was some legal jargon, but I grasped this: She committed J.T. and Digger to the custody of juvenile services—to nine months in a forestry camp for juvenile offenders out in western Maryland. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

So I decided to confront her about the free-lance work I’d done for her firm, eight pages of brochure copy on its tax services. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the service it began to rain. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just a cutlery switch; the whole dinner service was altered in a single swoop. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Neighbors who could afford it soon began bidding against each other for the services of available nurses, until there were times when a nurse’s fee would reach four or five dollars a day. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“There’s no time frame for return of phone service,” he said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

What she had to do was submit a query about the catalog number of a particular book, which would tell him that she wanted to pass a message to the service. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was so tangled in my thoughts that I missed that the service had ended. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

My services are quite in demand, so I must close. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But their services lasted even longer, and often W.E. would have to run in and get the old man out of his service while the taxi meter impatiently ticked away. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

"As to your daughter, I understand. If my wife looked like yours, I'd send my fool to service her as well." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” she replied in her sweet, musical voice, “I always give them an anaesthetic so they won’t feel pain. It’s a little service I throw in.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

"Good. And I believe that you owe me payment for my services, now my time with you is done," she said. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

"I'll go," I said, and I did go, and all during the simple funeral service I wondered what I thought I was burying. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Annie and I played church together out behind her house, setting up chairs and doing services. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The chaplain came around and asked if we wanted to come to nondenominational services. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had built his own oil field service company. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A steady supply of ill and injured is deposited in our kitchen before my mother, who has long since stopped charging for her services. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And I remember that during the services it was just row after row of old people repeating some verses, painful organ music, a lengthy sermon that was hard for me to follow. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

There were so many sheets that the walls around the bulletin board had been drafted into service as well. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Walter Reed tended to be the second or third stop for injured service members who were evacuated out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then he starts the service, and before you know it, I’m on. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

"He told me to give all his guards a silver piece, for their good service." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The event is happening tomorrow after our regular Sunday morning service. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The service was also surprisingly quiet and mellow. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His medal is not, as we were always told, for heroic service. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was only a practical vessel of helpful service, waiting to be filled up with recipes and knitting patterns. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Years of service in the Kingsguard had taught the white knight how to remain unobtrusive when she was entertaining, but he was never far. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He has not checked his mail in over a week, and among two flyers and a paycheck and a single utility bill is a small package from a veterans’ service organization located in West Berlin. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

An old, gray-bearded man went up to the large podium, put on a prayer shawl, and started the service. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It still took place, but this Caesar’s thumb was more often turned up than down, and the number of animals imported to service the arena was far lower. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Percy, when Quintus showed up at camp offering his services ... well, I would have to be a fool not to be suspicious.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sunday’s church service seemed specially important so everybody could pray for the souls of the men who were going to die on Tuesday. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They refused to give more than their name, rank, and service number. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also said our mother helped to spread the word by volunteering her printing services. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the shelf below the baffle tray, she kept what was left of Mammachi’s willow-pattern dinner service. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The line is available to any service member, any veteran, at any time. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He moved through the worship hall’s crowds slowly, as quietly as he could, while other patrons milled about, chatting animatedly or otherwise waiting for the service to begin. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Once more the monastery kept its usual round of service to God and humanity. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Folks in Clarkston sent their kids to Clarkston High School, went to services at one of the churches on Church Street, and bought their groceries at a local independent grocery store called Thriftown. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She might have bound the gods themselves into her service, Skathis, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

After lunch the family dispersed while a few of us, like Martín and Mari, stayed behind to prepare for dinner service. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"Not just any dating service, darling boy, but the first and very best. Established in 2635 BCE." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Who exactly they were, or what service they performed, I couldn’t tell. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

They owned a barbershop, a pool hall, and a service station. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Badenhorst was reputed to be one of the most brutal and authoritarian officers in the entire prison service. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching the display, Artemis appreciated fully, perhaps for the first time, the service provided by the Butler family. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Security is tight, cameras monitor the doors, and if you are working for American Express, you cannot get into the building that is managing services and research for General Electric. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

We came up with slogans like “We Can Do Better” and “Put the ‘U’ in Community” and hung sign-up sheets for different service opportunities. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The army chaplain said a few words and a councilman from the mayor's office thanked the soldiers for their service. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

At the start of the Korean War, the Tan Yanks remaining in active service in the US Air Force were called up to serve as a part of an integrated squadron. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I finished setting up, then tiptoed up the steps and slipped in to where the service was going on. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It used to be the hardest and most important of all the services of a good doctor to be on hand at the time of death and to provide comfort, usually in the home. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he looked up he said, “But you know there will be a charge for that service.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"We're chatting with Marcus Washington, from the US Postal Service. So, Mr. Washington, I understand the Ares 3 mission caused a postal service first. Can you explain that to our viewers?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had almost everything at this point: an envelope of money, phone numbers for two different taxi services—the Cairns Cab Company and the Coral Sea Coach shuttle service. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I confess I am, and so much else besides. I welcome you to our great city of learning and hope that we may be of service.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The other reason was: They weren’t hiring anyone under eighteen now, on account of a new community service program they’d set up with the high school. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Farmer asked if he wasn’t going to miss the work he’d done, because there was so much disease and the need for medical services was so urgent. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, little adventurer. You did me a great service today. I am indebted.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He rang for room service and a tired bearer came to take away the plates and bones. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clerics were recruited by the prison service, whose one edict was that they must preach exclusively on religious matters. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Between you and me, I don’t think your gram would have liked that service too much,” he says, one of his woolly eyebrows crooking. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

For it may well be that in America, it is all part of what is considered good professional service that an employee provide entertaining banter. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

"But I have not dismissed you from my service," said the prince calmly. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And, Mr. Hobert,” the principal says to Stephen, “it sounds like you’ve been harassing younger students at this school. You will serve detention and community service for one week. We do not tolerate hateful language.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get some dessert,” he says, and presses a button on the wall for service. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of them were time-sharers like stewardesses or nursing students, or guys running dispatch for gypsy cabs and escort services or telephone rigs like astrology or phone-sex parlors. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had he been a handsome, heroic-looking young gentleman, I should not have dared to stand thus questioning him against his will, and offering my services unasked. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

A woman from customer services came to talk to us. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mixed throughout were the suppliers of goods, services, and fellowship for the diverse black community. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Since Elnora allowed me to study this book that so entranced me, I tried to please her by attending chapel services with her. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I remembered seeing his mother hang the service flag in their front window the very day Harvey left for camp. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“What if social services finds out about us? Can we stay here if Papi isn’t here? Do we have enough money? Who’s going to take care of us?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mindless of the crowds, the service going on, I knelt beside the coffin, putting my hands on the smooth wood. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I work my way through the menus and get to the consumer merchandise customer service line. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had followed a few coffins up the hill from the church to the cemetery, but because Momma said I was tender-hearted I had never been forced to sit through a funeral service. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surprisingly, a number of the more sentient residents seem to recognize me at the lunch service. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also knew that there were services that he could use until he was twenty-one: rent and food subsidies, possible scholarships for school, job assistance. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They are also subject to legalized discrimination in employment, housing, education, public benefits, and jury service, just as their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents once were. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“We’ll make an award. What were they supposed to be for, meritorious service and bravery?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twice, Bellevue sent bills for impossibly large amounts of money for services her insurance was supposed to cover. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s a memorial service for Scott next weekend.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Miss Jane Banks and Master Michael Banks, at your service,” said the Brown Bear gruffly, as though he were half afraid. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“There is a service elevator for bananas and so forth,” said the clerk in a frosty voice. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And they assured those of us who hadn’t been in the service that the Academy was “nothing like” a real military boot camp. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I talked to social services today and told them I didn’t think your situation at home has improved, after all. I told them I thought maybe they’d made a mistake.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

We met other girls on Io, but I was chatting back to Quendy the whole time, even though there were some meg delays in feed service between the planets. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack Neylan was concerned that the demands of Washington service would expose Berkeley’s faculty star to the no-win politics of the nation’s capital. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As Johnny lay upon his bed, the church bells began to call for afternoon service. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father fairly cringed in his effort to convey an attitude of humble service. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In reality, though, I was like my friend who had worked the pumps at a service station: Even after she got home and took a shower, you could still smell the gasoline on her hands. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

No traditional service, no burial in the family plot. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is also a notice that though the funeral services will be private, condolences may be sent via the address of one of the local theaters. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And he organized a service of songs in the yard. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A desktop computer and Internet service weren’t the only luxuries Candice and her mother were living without this summer. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But when I’d seen her earlier, when August and I had first come in, she didn’t look like she could be of service to anybody, bound up with all that chain around her. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were committed to providing services, housing, job training, life skills, counseling, and anything else people coming out of prison needed to succeed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“What we shall want is a regular service of boats like that of an omnibus line in a city street,” he wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Jake ordered room service and scarfed down a fancy cheeseburger and two of those handmade ice cream sandwiches. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Only by being two people could I have worked harder in the service of the Nation of Islam. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the service of saving Africa’s babies and extracting its mineral soul, the West has built a path to its own door and thrown it wide for the plague. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Look George, Mr. Hoover and all of us know that you have performed a great service for our cause and we know that you did a courageous thing," Traynor said. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

But be it known that I have now sworn him to my service, and he shall be known as Peregrin son of Paladin and taught the lesser pass-words. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I—I don’t have any bank account numbers or anything but, if you look, there are pay stubs and invoices and requests of service,” Nora says. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

State governments have been forced to shift funds from public services, education, health, and welfare to pay for incarceration, and they now face unprecedented economic crises as a result. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The petition detailed Herbert's military service and explained why military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder are worthy of compassion. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In my life, I’d heard plenty of empty words coming from important people, lip service paid during times of crisis with no action to follow. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I wanted so badly to believe that being in Dain’s service was an honor, that he was someone worth following. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He’d spent the last five years trying to find some kind of meaning, not just for his service, but for his whole life. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

These women and their children can no longer live in public housing, receive food stamps, or access basic services. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was forced on me as I sat chilled through the chapel service, that this probably vindicated the rules of Devon after all, wintery Devon. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because he hadn’t read his air corps washout papers, he had no idea that he’d agreed to rejoin the corps for future service. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

They knew that to get anywhere, they needed to work with the powerhouses in the city who held the keys to jobs, housing, and social services. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After the service, I put myself in the path of Father Alphonse as he hastens from the chapel. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“We offer him your babysitting services, plus the riding lawn mower of his dreams.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We prayed before meals and attended Saturday services at the Tampa First Seventh-day Adventist Church. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In the real world, many countries lacked even simple health services, and others had clinics and hospitals staffed by the ignorant, the careless, and the lazy. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I mean, until there’s phone service and planes leaving Puerto Rico?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

All that was left was the furniture that was absolutely necessary, the silver candelabra and table service, for the everyday utensils had been sold one by one to underwrite the costs of her education. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

We followed a narrow corridor to the service stairwell, just like we’d practiced, but we froze when we heard noises above us. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There may be a few little faults in the plumbing and minor discrepancies among the staff, but I’m very confident of my service. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the investigation, Hoover sent a letter of commendation to White that said, “You brought credit and distinction not only to yourself but to the service we all have at heart.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Beowulf had made the best of all he had, putting each imperfection to work in the service of his integrity. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in the service of Duke Maximilian of Bavaria, a Catholic, and the terrible pan-European conflict afterwards known as the Thirty Years War was just beginning. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She was dressed for church, and expected momentarily to see the Clutters’ Chevrolet, for she too, always attended services chaperoned by the Clutter family. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three: After the funeral service everybody gets into their cars and drives, in a long line, to the cemetery. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Less than a month later, the US House of Representatives approved House Resolution 421 to honor the Mercury 13 for their service. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

People left and people died and people went to memorial services and put orange blocks of cheese into their purses. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I have to be there for the club, and if you don’t go you’ll be violating your community service.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Next Sunday, at a special Thanksgiving service, the garlands would hang around the thick neck of Chief Omenka and the smaller necks of his family members. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m honored to be of service,” Mr. Johnson said to me when I thanked him. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

At first we tried to fight them and launched our own service, called Billpoint. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Among the reasons he and others have cited for the blindness of the affluent is the fact that they are less and less likely to share spaces and services with the poor. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was half-way through the service before he realized that he had been allowed to do a miracle, just as he had always wanted. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“People pay exorbitant sums for an expert massage. You will receive yours at no cost, merely in exchange for a service. How long would it take you to ascertain Stan’s location?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“You are offering us a service. Perhaps we should repay you with a service as well.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I am going to attend my first church services here in Vida tomorrow, Easter Sunday. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Below it, women with big, pastel-colored hats filed in for a night service at a storefront church, and a whole other congregation cluttered into the liquor store next door. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“No, Monsieur. After the service of dinner the door between the ordinary carriages and the sleeping cars is locked.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The maitre d’ pulled sacks of potatoes and onions out of the service elevator and climbed in himself. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In exchange for his room and laundry services, Jack gave the women extra food rations he got from the Americans. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Without the terrible service and business practices, of course.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Only God knows when our relief may arrive. But God does know. And in His benevolent service we will stay.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. James Cook was going to pay him a small sum a month for the services of Harriet. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward they enjoyed a great luxury: Rick had room service bring up coffee. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

And while he felt guilty about making up the bogus cigarette story, Roy also couldn’t help but think that putting Dana behind bars was a public service. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a Sunday morning service in an abbey or cathedral. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Because of the Korean War, Congress had just lowered the minimum age for military service to eighteen and a half, so Lawrence was drafted at sixteen. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He looked at me with the same face he gives people who’ve come to him for funeral service. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Well-organized handwriting blocks note lady courtiers' names, their beauty services and secrets, and tips to tackling unforeseen treatment challenges, like stubborn moles and missing bones. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The service for which he had been destined had been against Force, the mental illness of humanity. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The “preparation and service” worksheet was coming a little more slowly; he had gotten only a 60, but there seemed little doubt that Don would eventually get a handle on it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lieutenant asked if he could be of service. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She caught cold in the Westerkerk, where the service was held. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“The patron saint of community service is asking me when I did something for myself?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I’m here to inform you we no longer need your services,” Mr. Alacran said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like any other service establishment, they want to move the customers in and out as quickly as they can. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“And I’d like to offer my services to help your community rebuild. I can do the repairs at cost, and only charge for materials and labor.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

In America, the service was just about an hour and a half long. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the service Ben was hit with the vision of Ansley Matthews naked before him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he passed the customer service department, he saw Haley Daley. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I go through the service entrance, lugging my box of paintings. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

During the services I would stare at her, wondering what it was like to be married to her, pondering over how passionate she was. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had seen it when she accompanied the Librarian of Jordan to a service there. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

If McCoy revoked my community service hours, I would definitely get sent away somewhere—Woodlands, or worse—and I would probably lose all class credit for this year. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Jorge’s letter arrived that morning, as if his prescience extended even to the irregular postal service between the United States and Cuba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go on and get the silver service out the dining room. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And even if you disregard that part of it, there was strong evidence that the death penalty should not be imposed because of Herbert's trauma, military service, and childhood difficulties. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

If it please mine uncle, King Arthur, to accord with him, then the King will lose my service and that of all the Gael. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many were there to provide various services to the men who did— doing their laundry, cooking their meals at the mess hall, selling them various sundries, disposing of their trash. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

On late Sunday afternoons before evening church services, old women who were carbon copies of herself came to the apartment to share leftovers from the Sunday meal and religious talk of a Bright Hereafter. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Abnegation react to death with silence and service, not words. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The service was at night and there were little bonfires all along both sides of the road on the way to the church. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frieda and Mrs. Banks went to temple on Saturday, and Mr. Banks didn’t attend a service of any kind. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Murphy turns her attention to the cabbage-rose tea service on the table in front of her, Miss Larsen gives me a wink. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The Reverend Samuel Cooper he ‘dunned’ as he was shaking hands with his parishioners at the end of the service. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following tradition, Uncle Pete guarded the doorway for more than two hours, until the service at the church was over. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There was always a big old spread of food after the service, which meant that one meal was guaranteed. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another says, Wasn’t it a beautiful memorial service? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course he wanted to be with me; but then the boat service would, most likely, be the one which would destroy the ... the ... the ... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

‘Forgive me, lord,’ he said at last, ‘if I broke your command, and yet have done no more in your service than to weep at our parting.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He heard his father ask Bill quietly over his head about “the service.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Lee said softly, “Thank you, General. You will be of great service, thank you.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cell phone had no service, of course, not that it ever does around here, and not that there was anyone I could call. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Throughout the entire service, Reb Saunders stood with his back to the congregation, sometimes raising his head toward the ceiling, or raising his hands to cover his eyes. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the days before the service, my mother’s siblings began to gather at their childhood home. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the country’s largest cities, otherwise prosaic services have been transformed into status symbols simply because of the price tag. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Increasingly, the nation’s richest are spending their money on personal services or exclusive experiences and isolating themselves from the masses in ways that go beyond building gated walls. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

They were in service with a Miss Brady who died suddenly. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

"So you'd offer me a kennel girl for my good service, is that the way of it?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s just one of the many services I provide.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid we’ve done bad service to our dearie,” Samuel said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Snape. Now. I need him. There is a—service—I require from him. Go.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The next Sunday after services, Willis Hurd nodded to Turner as he filed out with the rest of the congregation to shake Reverend Buckminster’s hand. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The service man put his tool bag down on the kitchen floor, looked at the refrigerator, and then at Mr. Popper, who, to tell the truth, had not shaved yet and was not very tidy. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I often sat with him, after services, and listened to his tales, trying to understand his grief. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Viola went off to her own service at All God’s Children. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I know who you are and the valiant service you have rendered.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Once there, we were lined up to have our fingerprints taken, which was routine prison service business. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Smokies achieved their natural splendor without the guidance of a national park service and don’t actually need it now. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, some of the colored just stayed in the service: A few of the colored units were kept going and it was a paying job. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I was to leam later that Mr. Muhammad’s teaching about death and the Muslim funeral service was in drastic contradiction to what Islam taught in the East. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creditors and service people who humiliated her when she went to them on her own behalf respected her, were even intimidated by her, when she spoke for the Fishers. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

To this end, he took what seems at first sight a rather bizarre decision, upping sticks and moving to Holland, where he signed up for military service with the Prince of Orange. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Now that the war was over, Stalin himself refused to allow women to continue in military service in the air force. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

As light begins to seep through the darkness outside the window, around 5:00 a.m., he tells me that he’s playing the organ in the Episcopal Church on Banner Street at the eight o’clock service. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was a quiet, respectful service, with only one sour note. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He imposed obligatory military service for men over eighteen, declared to be public property any animals walking the streets after six in the evening, and made men who were overage wear red armbands. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The miners still trudge up the old path to the tipple, and the people bustle in and out of the Big Store and gather on the church steps after Sunday services. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The city and track were completely cut off from all wire service. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have friends who’ve used your services. I myself have yet to turn a corner.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

In March 2007 I was obliged to travel by plane instead of boat, because there is no longer any regular ferry service from Athens. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“All right. Rain. I’m admitting you now. We’ll operate in the morning. And I’ll call social services to see what arrangements can be made for your grandson.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

‘Then the advice nurse said I had to call a service centre,’ Piper reported. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In November 1942, their required war service fulfilled, the friends returned to Munich, where they resumed their studies. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hie first thing he had done after taking up residence in the Tower of the Hand was inquire after the finest cook in the city and take her into his service. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

After service, Momly is always waiting for us, and I go through the same process—getting Ma in the car, the wheelchair in the trunk. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The next day, Kansas City AP bureau chief Ed Stanley inserted the phrase “the dust bowl” into a wire service account of the devastation, and a new term entered the American lexicon. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Good morning, ladies. Alfred Frick, at your service.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The mechanic, a white man with many years of service at the laboratory, sabotaged Byrdsong’s experiment by incorrectly affixing the model to its sting in the tunnel’s test section. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

"Is there any other service I might perform?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At the third service station, the owner took one look at my leg and listened to Dad’s explanation. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“At your service. We’ll rearrange our appointments,” the detective said graciously. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Since my service is too weak to keep checking for text messages that probably aren’t coming, I have no choice but to listen as they talk about climate change. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But they all went on to contribute, to fight for causes, to compensate and grow through a kind of service. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A city provides goods and services for its surrounding area, exchanging food from the countryside for the products of its sophisticated craftspeople. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He even shoveled out First Congregational in time for Sunday services, which Deacon Hurd now led and which Turner and his mother did not attend. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I had no phone service in this cinder- block dungeon. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

At the end of service, Pastor Dames reminds everyone that today we are having a family day barbecue out back. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The family had a large TV monitor near the casket that flashed dozens of pictures of Walter before the service. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

To just let me heal, let me leave the hospital, let me go to court, let me do whatever stupid community service they wanted me to do, and let me go back to normal. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Please her? Has Illyrio taken leave of his senses? Why does he imagine that Her Grace would welcome the service of a self-confessed kingslayer and betrayer?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You won’t help with our laundry service because you don’t want to get in trouble. How do you spell Boy Scout?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt mildly off-key after Reggie had pledged his life to service. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I wished that I were back at the hotel, ordering room service. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He would just get his service done and then he could move on with his life. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

So he sat in the dripping honey sun, pulling every nerve and muscle into service to stop the fall of water from his eyes. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prison service regulations were explicit that each prisoner was permitted to speak only for himself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His son, Lenin, had moved to Delhi, where he worked as a services contractor for foreign embassies. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same skills he had once used to further the ends of the Ku Klux Klan he now employed in the service of working-class people of all races. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They, like, provided Internet services to basically the entire nation. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

After the service while Uhmma helps set out doughnuts and coffee, Apa stands in the corner of the fellowship hall, away from everyone else, smoking a cigarette. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

They made their way up the alley to the hotel’s service entrance. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

My friends and I would slip out of the church between Sunday school and the 11:00 a.m. worship service to drink Cokes at Mr. Gaston’s motel restaurant. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Two of the men were lieutenants Washington and Browning, recently returned from military service overseas as members of the all-black Eighth Regiment. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Jobs can be found in the suburbs—mostly service sector jobs—but employment for unskilled men with criminal convictions, while difficult to find anywhere, is especially hard to find close to home. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Neither rain nor heat nor stomachache could keep Gran away from Sunday service. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

To compound this, he made the mistake of not formally recognizing her during service when she came to visit the church. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Bath minister stepped behind the pulpit again, wheezed some to gain time, and then figured that they would conclude the service with “Bringing in the Sheaves.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s Sunday and we kinda owe it to Jesus to go to church on his birthday, none of us wake up until around eleven so we miss service. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It’s easy enough now, on the high-speed road in a dependable and comfortable car, with stopping places for shade and every service station vaunting its refrigeration. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

For his services, the wizard was paid three British pounds. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Terryl sat at her desk in the small offices of the community services victim’s advocate program located in the Orange County courthouse. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

One Sunday in 1967, after services at Carver Presbyterian Church, Katherine Johnson spied a new face in the crowd, a young woman who had come to the church with her husband and two young daughters. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Essie’s mother was in service as a cook at the squire’s house, and, at the age of twelve, Essie began to work there, in the scullery. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

This is beginning to look like a plan: from maids’ service to something better, with the nursing home tiding me over during the transition. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Sunday morning service began when Brother Elisha sat down at the piano and raised a song. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Each guest is very particular about his or her diet, constantly complains about the slowness of the service, and never, ever tips. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The service road cut through industrial wasteland and dead-ended at a strip mall. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Of course I get to Fizz’s early, even with the slow Sunday bus service. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Kirby’s first “Pig Stand” was in Texas, but the chain soon thrived in Los Angeles, alongside coundess other food stands offering “curb service.” Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

No one else, save perhaps Jefferson, could match his record of service to the cause of independence. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The others are the specialized skills a job requires, the unpleasantness of a job, and the demand for services that the job fulfills. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He received a large sum for his service in the Congo, a decent nest egg you might say, but have I seen it? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The service at St. Maiy’s was in Latin, just like in Cuba, so for that one hour, I could close my eyes and, with those familiar sounds in my ears, it felt like home. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

A little dainty old lady took care of me, moving starchily with a silver tea service on a tray and bringing me a glass of elderberry wine each evening for my health’s sake. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Diplomatic service or not, a man who leaves his wife for his mistress is no catch, I was sorry to find out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the train traveled toward New Jersey, worshippers attended church services to pray for Garfield's recovery. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Before the service began, I thought about all the time I had spent with Walter after he got out. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

At ten, he was asked to recite a scripture during an Easter Sunday church service. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The first time he called, he told me he was using his wife’s phone because his own phone had been bugged by the intelligence services. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At first the ceremony was exactly like the service on Saturday. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rarely conversed with each other apart from the necessities of their service and practices. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather came to spend Rosh Hashanah with us so as to attend the services of the celebrated Rebbe of Borsche. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She believed it, even though they were sitting at the long table with a linen tablecloth and silver service to have a cup of watered chocolate and a sweet bun. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Leo prised open a service panel near the snake’s head. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I made a mental list of what I wanted to prioritize in my life—things like community service and charitable work were on the top. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Never one to miss an opportunity, Fabyan had already offered the services of Riverbank’s Department of Ciphers to the U.S. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

At least, she tries to call Grandpa Ed, but her phone has no service. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The general believed that, sooner or later, Afghanistan would be freed, the monarchy restored, and his services would once again be called upon. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I would ask where I could obtain the services of an armored bear,” he said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then the elephant taxi service headed back into the valley. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

At the rear the trucks draw up, and there they have their services—the huge overland caravans. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer clambered through a service duct, tugging at copper wire and yanking it free. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was one thing, however, that made coming to Sunday service with Gran totally worth it: gawking at the gobs of people strutting into church wearing their Sunday best. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The defeat made his service—and everyone else’s—seem so pointless. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

They spoke after Easter services, when Booth and Herold were still very much in the vicinity. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Yet no one would regard my complexion the same way if I entered such hotels through the service entrance. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hated her school and she hated the world, and right now she particularly hated the town bus service. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Finally, we all gathered around the water’s edge to have a homegoing service for Daddy. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I do not understand, but I put myself at your service. I pledge my life to preserve you from harm,” he said with the fervor of a new-made knight being sent upon a quest. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

"Court isn't for fun. Not for people like you or me. You're here to do a service." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“We will trade a service for a service.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

C.P., the proud owner of a service station, Durham, early 1960s. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Salinas had a small ice company, not large but enough to supply the few houses with iceboxes and to service the ice-cream parlors. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Reverend Hunt calls us together for Sunday services. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Farmer decided that all TB patients in the catchment area should receive the full package of services, including the equivalent of five American dollars per month. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I hear Pattie saying: "A woman called from child services. They are doing a home visitation. Today." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Uttered by another laboratory director, these words might sound like lip service, but the record shows that Lawrence vigorously sought opportunities even for his best people. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

If a car came in with graffiti, the graffiti had to be removed during the changeover, or the car was removed from service. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Social services, shelters, food pantry, free clinic,” he said. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

His commanding officer didn’t even bother to note Horan’s experience in his service record. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Even time off over holidays, which were more flexible but still considered workdays, was hard to come by, particularly as she was still classified as a temporary war service employee. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Even though she had committed suicide, I went to Grandma’s memorial service at the crematorium. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote to the Atlantis Publishing Company in New York, offering his services as a translator, but received in return only a letter thanking him for his interest, along with a catalogue. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Sorry I didn’t make it to your ma’s service, Doc. I just...couldn’t take no more.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But that meant long services in the oratory rather than well-filled tables in the refectory. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Before Jody had been dead a month, she noticed how often men who had never been intimates of Joe, drove considerable distances to ask after her welfare and offer their services as advisor. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Warders were present at all services and if the minister strayed from religion, he was not invited back. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All municipal services there will end by Friday, July first.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

On Monday morning, September 26, religious services were held at the pavilion and attended by James Garfield's Ohio friends and family as well as by many national dignitaries. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

At a certain point in the service I would play the organ before the choir began to sing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The house servants, even old Gregory, have left our service, for the plague had them. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

It noted that global markets today were more accessible and interconnected than ever before—and that, because of this change, UBS services were now available in “only” two locations: “Everywhere, and right next to you.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Randall retained the services of a witch to goofer his property so that no one with African blood could escape without being stricken with hideous palsy. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Later, I try to call Albert, but a recording says that the number is no longer in service, and I worry that he had to move away or something. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

There was an on-site Wellness Center with counseling, health, and academic support services. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Maybe not my place to say,” Katz offered thoughtfully, “but I’m not sure that’s the best way to ensure prompt and cheerful service.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She still did lip service to the old ways, while herself nibbling away at forbidden fruit. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“If you’d like to unwrap me,” he said, lifting the large wicker basket onto the table, “we still have an hour until the temple service.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Recognizing the public's disdain for the spoils system, he called for a law regulating civil service jobs within the government. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The concrete guard towers were turned into headquarters for service clubs like Interact and Junior Achievement. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Short, jolly Caverin was replaced with a tall, thin man who informed me that my services were no longer required. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But there's one part of the service where Ma always eases up on acting like a warden. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

After Parker finished his military service, he used the GI Bill to earn a degree in civil engineering from the Colorado School of Mines—as far from the South as he could get. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“This baby’s been in service for fifty years. Oldest model still in the chutes.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I laughed quickly and said: i'm delighted to be of service, madam.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Bath minister was probably wishing that the service had ended with the last prayer. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Her country’s new leaders were now attempting to improve life with an untried system of government called communism, in which property, goods, and services are owned by the community and shared according to need. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I do. And I know people who can provide the services.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I passed a service station, and the sign said gasoline was only ninety-three cents a gallon. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And this shift from goods to services shows every indication of continuing. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Lip service had been given to this idea months before Fuller’s arrival. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Through the 1990s, they got smaller and cheaper, and service got better until 1998, when the technology hit a Tipping Point and suddenly everyone had a cell phone. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen. Does everyone have a service project team?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

What if they think Nora and I are unreliable and decide not to use our services anymore? A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Hatsue Imada was standing in the foyer of the Amity Harbor Buddhist Chapel, buttoning her coat after services, when Georgia Yamashita’s mother told the people gathered there the news about Pearl Harbor. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

"I have been told,” the merchant began, "that you are a Brahmin, a learned man, but that you seek service with a merchant. Are you then in need, Brahmin, that you seek service?” Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s nothing at all. Now give your poor tutor a hug. I imagine my services won’t be needed after this.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

In Cairo and again in Accra, the American press wire services reached me with trans-Atlantic calls, asking whom did I favor, Johnson—or Goldwater? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He protested even the small amount of money the city dribbled out to provide services in black sections of town. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had been a private in the War, and although he hadn’t served under Granddaddy, he admired him and was determined to be of service to him when he could. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Surely Judith could not mean — “Did you say — between services?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The adjutant general wrote to Tom’s captain, saying that Tom had “proved an excellent officer” and that he would “regret to see him quit the service.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Colored paper say thousands a people came to the service, but you could count the whites on one hand. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Throughout the 1970s, conservatives generally gave lip service to the goal of racial equality but actively resisted desegregation, busing, and civil rights enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Public service announcements reminding people to conserve water. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In this, Operation Breakthrough differed from most other antipoverty agencies that provided services to the poor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We got the whole thing on video. I wish I could email it to my friends at the FBI, but the Wi-Fi down here is terrible. Cell service, too. There is none.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

No name given, no military service or rank mentioned—she introduced herself to Penn as a wireless operator. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Naturally he had come to seek the services of Tom Swift and his friends, and Tom leaped at the prospect of adventure. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Get it back to me by midday tomorrow. Not a minute later. I’ll put a check on it in the afternoon. It needs a service.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

In February 1989, Eva Ansley and I opened our new nonprofit law center in Tuscaloosa, dedicated to providing free, quality legal services to condemned men and women on death row in Alabama. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Every child is told from the day he or she is old enough to understand that the scythes provide a crucial service for society. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“We get to stay in a hotel with the crew. A lot of them order beefy burgers from room service!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Within a few days, we had an informal online counseling service under way, trying to send kids who seemed to be in serious trouble to sympathetic parents or professionals. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandmother Lucy also said that dogs don’t have memorial services. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

His service as wartime governor of Virginia had ended disastrously when British troops burned the capital as Jefferson galloped off and into official disgrace. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Viola was back from her service, and she and Granddaddy stood at the front door. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Before the funeral services begin, the police show up and handcuff you. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I was the preacher, Miss Love was the pi-ana player, and the both of us made up the congregation. Hit was a real nice service.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I ran her address into the cable service provider database. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The worst, for some reason, are the Visible Christians—like the ten-person table, all jolly and sanctified after Sunday night service, who run me mercilessly and then leave me $1 on a $92 bill. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The saloons began offering more and more services to their customers. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

On the fourth Sunday of each month, Reverend John H. Cross asked the church’s youth to lead the service, teach the Sunday school classes, and take over jobs the adult members usually did. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He passed brass fittings and steel doors, noting easily stripped service lines. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Here was an opportunity to make practical use of the theories in which he had marinated for years—and in the service of a fight against Fascism that he took seriously indeed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“How long have you been in the service, sailor?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She watched the men in the dust of the Moon and thought of the orbiting command service module, out of view of the camera, circling the Moon every ninety minutes. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Lucy Jo, whom the principal had more or less ordered to perform this service, took an instant dislike to Mom. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yeah, we all know about the Peasant’s brother.What does that have to do with getting the band out of the service requirement? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The caption under the picture says: Elected by the people, unpaid for their services, and open to public criticism, board members must make the tough decisions. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

About an hour into the service, Deborah realized she couldn’t move her arm. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The priests here were famous for arguing to get the best altars for their own services. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed his winter coat and soft, peaked brown trench cap before rushing out of the service quarters on the factory grounds where he lived with his father and younger brother. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was certain he had been called to stay, that God knew he would be of service if he remained. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I was no longer attracted by a career in the civil service, or being an interpreter in the Native Affairs Department. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flew home to Kansas and arrived by taxi on Saturday morning at her family’s plot at a graveyard in Wichita just as the funeral service began. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Little service can I offer to your lord, but what I can do, I would do, remembering Boromir the brave.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

"Then I'm at your service," I said, pushing open the door. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily for mankind, he suggested, the cyclotron had been painstakingly developed to the point that it could perform that service. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m doing your friends a service by showing them what they act like when things don’t go their way. I’m forcing them to face the truth about themselves, and the truth isn’t always pretty!” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“No, surely. They’re in Poseidon’s service. Their business is to save any ship in distress.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry,” he said, “but the service is for family members only.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed to him so lax, so nearly worldly; they were not like those holy prophets of old who grew thin and naked in the service of the Lord. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

At a memorial service in Carnegie Hall, attended by two thousand admirers, a silent piano stood at center stage, flanked by flowers. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Moving people from one place to another made me feel as though I performed a valuable service, recognized and appreciated by the city at large. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the morning I called the medical information service and asked for the names of some prominent dermatologists. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prison jobs became civil service jobs; prisons within the states became more standardized and centrally controlled; and unions in a few states, particularly New York and California, became important players. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hired a doctor and a dentist and provided their services to his miners and their families for free. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The transfiguring power of the Holy Ghost ended when the service ended, and salvation stopped at the church door. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

There wasn't a Saturday afternoon or Sunday after morning service that l didn't have callers. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, such vision has not prevailed in the corresponding agricultural services of the United States. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Accordingly, Langley centralized its computing operations into a group named the Analysis and Computation Division, created to service all the center’s research operations, as well as to provide computing to outside contractors. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

As Cook handed her the tea service, which was somehow even heavier than the oatmeal tray, she’d made certain to warn Ophie that the dishes were valuable. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“You have your reward for the services you rendered. You have emerged from confinement. Eviction from this preserve is the consequence of prior indiscretions.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Much like he changed in the story, I have changed and will change as I commit myself to service toward society.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service to a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child’s riddle?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

C.P. grew excited thinking of what they could eventually accomplish: a thousand low-income whites marching and rallying to demand better housing and city services. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

"No. Not once in the history of the postal service." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Speaking of the Zooms, Rabbi Gold has explained all the parts of the service to me so I’ll know what to expect on December 4. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

As older brothers, fathers, and neighbors were drafted into the service, younger boys and girls took over various jobs. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They reported suspicious neighbors and even monitored church services, to ensure that the sermons met with Nazi approval. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

With dignity, Matthew opened the can of peaches and sat poised with a huge spoon he had selected from Lillian’s silver service. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Ed checks in at whatever motel he can find with phone service, but it’s a quick We’re fine, you’re fine, good-bye as the motel lady eyes him with impatience. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The landlady says that one of these days the rental service will pull it out, but maybe by that time I can learn to play it. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Always, meeting us older hands in Mr. Muhammad’s service for the first time, there were several new ministers of small new Temples. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

By and by it would be evening and he would go to clean the church, and remain for tarry service. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I am only too happy to have been of any service! Oh, God!” he cried suddenly, struggling up to a sitting posture and pointing to me, “It was worth for this to die! Look! look!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Now tell this old widow how she may be of service to you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Molly glances over at the tea service drying in the rack. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Once services were held outside, we were given the option of attending. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In January 1940, a month after Jack arrived at his uncle’s, the Nazis demanded the services of three hundred adults every day to assist with work projects. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even those employed as waiters and janitors might be enticed to leave personal service for the higher wages of the stockyards. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After an hour, the doors were shut so that the family, the cabinet, and medical attendants could hold a private religious service. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The room is gaudy with gowns, red roses, silver service clinking. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They went down to the quays, where the Harbormaster came hastening to welcome Ogion and ask what service he might do. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

But it is this primal posture of submission—and of what is ultimately anal accessibility— that seems to gratify the consumers of maid services. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malloy himself told me that he had never really even been out of Brooklyn except for the time he spent in the service. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Fine record—war service—all the rest of it. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

He started a project called Greenhouse, where poor people could receive mental health services. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, kinda. I’m a biologist for the park service, so I do work in several of the parks up here in the Northwest.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was more the commitment to service; he says he’d look with equal favor upon someone in the peace corps. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Here I was a nobody from Louisiana eating room service in a fancy New York hotel while watching myself on TV It was like The Twilight Zone or something. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

As the ship had gone onto its side, the service panels that had been in place on the floor had come loose and fallen free, revealing the huge gears and interlocking hydraulic systems. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Grateful the service was finally over, Dorian Havilliard strode by himself through the castle grounds. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I looked forward to going to synagogue services with my maternal grandparents, with whom I was especially close. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I loved white church because I didn’t actually have to go to the main service. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

An incident later in B-block had called my bluff: I’d discovered a fire in the service area that ran down the center of the block; welders upstairs had unwittingly ignited a length of PVC pipe. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Executive Order prohibits U.S. persons from performing any contract in support of a commercial project in Yugoslavia, as well as from exporting services to Yugoslavia. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The next year, he was called to service. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

These images were now rapidly available thanks to wirephoto services, which had debuted in Life in the month that Pollard, Howard, and Smith formed their partnership. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But let’s get a move on while there’s still electricity. We can take the service elevator to the basement to get the sled.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Instead of permitting us to receive newspapers or listen to radio, they started their own radio news service, which consisted of a daily canned summary of the news read over the prison’s intercom system. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’ll call social services and the police and the FBI and the TV news.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was a gray day, and when Muller’s service had lowered the casket with oiled and silent winches the hearse drove away and the husband filled the grave himself with a new shovel. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

With so many summer travelers expected, the Long Island Rail Road had just announced that it was providing additional service for the three-hour train trip from Penn Station in Manhattan to Amagansett. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The services had lasted a little over an hour when the three minutes of prayers said for every Muslim who is dead were recited by Alhajj Heshaam Jaaber, of Elizabeth, New Jersey. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I even discovered a bell for room service—all this for 150 rands a week. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Skeezie: If the service gets much slower in this place, I swear I’m gonna take a job here myself, just so’s I can get something to eat. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The prison service distrusted all organizations that could affect world opinion, and regarded them not as legitimate investigators to be dealt with honestly but as med-dling interlopers to be hoodwinked if possible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The statement that use of this card is subject to the card member agreement, the twenty-four-hour customer service number. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There were no services that day, and the church was empty, except for some women cleaning and some other women praying. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I glanced nervously at our own house, with no rugs or tea service, but how much did that matter? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am. The thing is, there’s a five- dollar service charge on each ticket. So even though the tickets are fifty-five dollars, they cost sixty.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

"Pylos will counsel me henceforth. Already he works with the ravens, since you can no longer climb to the rookery. I will not have you kill yourself in my service." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but a smaller one than he imagines, for a smaller service. Which of these lands will you consent to part with?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But since this town had grown up to serve the peculiar needs of the University, a careful observer could note small differences in the services the town provided. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So I was of some service to them after all. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

After all, he saw her at church every Sunday after services pouring tea and coffee in the reception room. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They weren’t police, and they weren’t social services, and they weren’t criminals—at least as far as Will could judge. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through absence and neglect, the ties that bound me to my father and to Laertes had frayed since I had entered Gertrude's service. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The Walasi-Yi, we discovered, provided other services to bona fide hikers for a small fee—laundry center, showers, towel rental—and we greedily availed ourselves of all those. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Imam Malik continues to explain that they want to expand services beyond the welcoming of families, to include English classes, job training, tutoring, and more. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Having started my career as a wire service reporter with United Press International, I have enormous sympathy with wire service reporters and the pressures, both professional and financial, under which they toil. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Squealer made excellent speeches on the joy of service and the dignity of labour, but the other animals found more inspiration in Boxer’s strength and his never- failing cry of “I will work harder!” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wickham’s society was of material service in dispelling the gloom which the late perverse occurrences had thrown on many of the Longbourn family. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

As though they had not a care in the world the British officers crowded into the Episcopal churches and army chaplains held services for the soldiers in the barracks. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is that why he was at the memorial service? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

All we people in there try to touch through the spirit One man I always see swinging machete is leading the service, singing with eyes dosed, calling down the spirit. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually given to mortals in exchange for their service, geases grant power, with a kick-in-the-teeth exception that comes upon you when you least expect it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the service bay he dragged out the steel trash drum and tipped it over and pawed out all the quart plastic oil bottles. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The story was picked up by the wire services and distributed nationwide. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our people were close-knit, and everyone knew everyone’s business: If you ever skipped services on a Sunday, people would ask, “Why weren’t you in church?” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We would gather ten men and hold a special service. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The call went out for people with any kind of skill to offer their services. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

In early May, less than a month into their wartime service, she told William she would marry him. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Later, when he found out that the House of David had a special prayer service for Keeping Your Husband, he had felt unsettled. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Given the length of our services, I saw no other possibility. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Four F,” he said—a military classification for those physically unfit for service. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Captain. They tell us you did us good service in Lhazar.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She had never been to the headquarters of the service, and as far as she was aware, the words Oakley Street, wherever that was, meant no more than a straightforward address. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

These are the kinds of services that Kenna’s record was given to—and the results were dismal. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

At best, they do good by providing expensive services impossible to contract for on an individual basis. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I will not see one single marble during the service, is that clear?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On the radio, the announcer reads public service classifieds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The doctor, who was leaving the country after a year of service, confided that while he loved the Haitian people, he couldn’t wait to return to the States. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

"We want to eat in the first service." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Popper had gone marketing for canned shrimps for the penguin, so that Mr. Popper was alone in the kitchen to explain to the service man what he wanted done to the refrigerator. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

She made sure she knew all the bank numbers, customer service numbers, passwords, credit card numbers, and codes. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He’s offering himself to me, his services, at some risk to himself. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One other thing. Participation in the highway cleanup counts as public service, which always looks good on a college application.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“I was what they call ‘nervous in the service.’ A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom rubbed her hand in circles on my back to try to comfort me while, above my sobbing, I could hear my dad ordering room service. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Mulligan thereafter called himself “Clothier to Genl. Washington,” but the tailor did not advertise his other service to the general. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dinner service went off without a hitch, much to Mama’s delight. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Who did the Cossacks need to go to if they wanted to open their churches for a christening service or for a marriage or a funeral? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

‘Hey, not so glum. We’ll help you as much as we can. The Amazon service department has repaired those metal dogs of yours. And we have some cool parting gifts!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Before he had entered the service he had not been much interested in warfare; now he bought every book about war, read every report, subscribed to the New York papers, studied maps. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She backtracks to her first job at thirteen, cleaning the Francis the First silver service at the governor’s mansion. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

After the service everyone is given white balloons and we are ushered outside. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He went back to Bozeman and worked in construction and as a forest services firefighter for a year and a half. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He was one of the Brackens, a man-at-arms in the service of Lord Jonos. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mary Anne searched her purse for a Kleenex, but pulled out instead a teaspoon pirated from her mother’s silver service. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ink was barely dry on the bulletin in Air Scoop announcing the reduction in force before Melvin Butler released a plan to offer permanent appointments to war service employees. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Before long these Web-delivered services will likely replace some, or all, of the business software programs that you buy, load, update, upgrade, and integrate with other systems. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I received further reprimands for my labored and deliberate service, or, as he called it, my sloth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As we had for the last six years, we took time on Christmas Day to visit with service members and their families at a nearby Marine Corps base. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He would learn how to be of service to his liege lord, how to be courteous and gentle, and, at the same time, strong of heart. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“So Terry tells me you were assigned some kind of community service project. And she came up with the brilliant idea for you to help me clean my attic,” Vivian says. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It makes me put my clothes on wrong, and scramble the service, and eat incorrectly— third priest: Lunatic priests are bad business. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had come alone; Aunty Ifeoma had gone to the morning service with the others. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She had engaged a maid for me, Clarice, the daughter of somebody on the estate, a nice quiet well-mannered girl, who, thank heaven, had never been in service before and had no alarming standards. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, they had more than enough to do already, creating codes and breaking messages for their own services. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Bri and Julie promptly fought over the remote control, only to find it was a national day of mourning and all the TV stations had memorial services on, with sermons and choirs and politicians. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

We were hungry and decided to order room service, but we didn’t have any idea what we were getting ourselves into. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mary Anne, using a spatula from her mother’s silver service, was shaping the feces into a remote semblance of a cake. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have no idea what is happening, Perseus Jackson. I will let the General enlighten you. You are going to do him a great service tonight. He is looking forward to meeting you.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The minister would conduct services and console the family. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Once in a while it seems a real sharpshooter’s services are needed. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Reverend Hunt has color in his cheeks again, and he is able to lead Sunday services for the first time in many weeks. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I buckled down to a solid-geometry problem, until I heard a screech of tires that seemed to begin opposite the service station all the way past our house. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You will be doing your country a service by turning state’s evidence.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He would need a police force and a fire department, a hospital and an ambulance service. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I remember this one Big Meeting Sunday, I was riding on the back of the truck before the service started, to go get ice at the general store. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Would you care for a hot dog? I extend the same courteous service to all colors and creeds. Paradise Vendors has been a pioneer in the field of public accommodations.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have been paid to start it. It’s a fine line of work to be expert in. If we do this perfectly, there will be a continual demand for our services.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“These half- bloods have done Olympus a great service. Would any here deny that?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Can I help you, friend John? I am free, and if I may, my service is to you.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I have a valve which is subject to vicissitudes which may force me to lie abed on certain days. Several more attractive organizations are currently vying for my services. I must consider them first.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feral would call rain showers to rinse away the blood, and they would all sit down to dinner while Minya bound the day’s new batch of dead into her service. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

After the service, Pa went up to the pastor to introduce his wife, and Big Ma was all smiles. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Some agents he ran personally; some worked under Major John Clark, a brilliant Continental Army officer “on spy service.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But first, the chief of MI6 himself, known simply as "C" inside the service, granted Blake several months' vacation to recuperate. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We had no paid organizers, no staff, and a membership that did little more than pay lip service to our cause. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Studied at the Lyceum of Nezhin, went to St. Petersburg in 1828 where he entered, in 1829, the civil service, in the Department of Public Works for the Ministry of the Interior. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A criminal record today authorizes precisely the forms of discrimination we supposedly left behind—discrimination in employment, housing, education, public benefits, and jury service. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We decide to order room service, to have the food delivered to our room, and guess what they had on the menu? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

West Virginia that excluding black people from jury service was unconstitutional, but juries remained all-white for decades afterward. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

By our third year, services were held in the courtyard, which we preferred. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We will begin the shukrani service momentarily. Please have your offerings ready so that as many prayers can be received as possible!” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I know that name. T. M. Riddle got an award for special services to the school fifty years ago.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Now 1 had that responsibility, to check everything from A to Z, so that when a new airplane entered squadron service, there would be no surprises waiting for the new boy, the inexperienced second lieutenant. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The judge told me that I would be on probation for three years and have to do community service for a month and two weeks. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“At your service,” he said, with a silly bow. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The system, known as servi-cha, or service car, was invented in the late 1990s by government and military elites to milk cash from traders who needed to move themselves and their goods around the country. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Which all means that Mami doesn’t think community service is a big deal at all if it means I get to attend Seaward. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Raymie’s mother did not talk on the way to the memorial service. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

And that was the end of our Christmas Eve service at new First Congregational. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

As they are wanted for immediate service, will you throw your eye over them?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He thanked Los Santitos and gave us a certificate of appreciation for “rendering eminent and memorable service to the Santa Maria community by helping the Salvation Army to give a happy Christmas.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

A twenty-year veteran of the Soviet spy service, Yurchenko had traveled the world on behalf of the USSR, including a stint at the Soviet embassy in Washington, DC. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He refuses to go to Christmas services with them, and they take that as the ultimate act of betrayal. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My dearest Papa, I am well and happy in the service of Our Lady. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sacred choral work could navigate through the religious texts and order of service as ordained by the Church. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I clung to the rough plank, poised far out over the water, giving all my might to the service of balance. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jim’s devotion to the military service made it easy for him to understand Katherine’s strong commitment to her work at Langley. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I have been working in service to a man of great charge. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Speaking only “with the betterment of the service in mind,” White wrote to Hoover that he believed an agent who was familiar with a region and its people was more effective. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

West Computing no longer existed as a physical space, but its alumni pushed their minds and hands in the service of the space program— though in Dorothy Vaughans case, it was an indirect effort. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“They grow up too fast. So are you and your mom attending services somewhere now?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

You wear an Armani suit and sign up for a subscription wine service. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“My lords and ladies, pardon the ruse by which I have gathered you here to witness the marriage of my daughter. Father, we wait your services.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Good thing the service was drawing to a close. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dear Mrs. Vaughan: Our records indicate that you recently completed 20 years of Federal Government service,” wrote Langley’s director, Floyd Thompson, in the summer of 1963. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Who asks if they can be of service?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Goods and services have always been means to measure social station. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Why would I do that? Why would I help you? Why ... to be of service. To do my part for humanity. To aid in the saving of a princess. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Even on Sunday they held a Bible and helped set out doughnuts and coffee after the service. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“She also asked him not to go to services at the Lutheran church, but that he wouldn’t do.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He lost $2,300 owed to him for three years of service, along with all the money he had invested in Confederate bonds at the beginning of the war. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an ancient mossy smell, the smell of a silent church where services are seldom held, where rusty lichen grows upon the stones and ivy tendrils creep to the very windows. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The funeral service for Joseph was three days later. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

In the abandoned Latin service it was the priest alone who spoke the affirmation of faith. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if they practiced it in the mirror between services. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I might be having coffee in a service station, staring at the motorway through the big windows, and my essay will pop into my head for no reason. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been a shower of flying tools, a violent slamming of the door, and the service man was gone. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fuel being scarce, and the Staniford Street house being draughty, I offered my services to a work crew in exchange for wood. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

No fancy service ethic allowed for the serfs. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We having heard him play several Tunes, Capt. Draper clapped the Boy upon the Shoulder and said that his services should be of indispensable Utility. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was empty, being between times for service. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The service man examined the bill carefully as if he didn’t trust Mr. Popper too much. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you observe, gentlemen,” said Mr. Waldengarver, “that there was a man in the gallery who endeavoured to cast derision on the service,—I mean, the representation?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

My faith was buttressed by a book by Jacques Maritain rather than by the experience of worship at a Lenten service with classmates or serving at some old lady’s funeral. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take too long to shake hands with folks after the service. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

My father thus replied to the effect that while he was most grateful that his feelings had been taken into account, Mr Silvers could be assured that service would be provided to the usual standards. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

But at the wonder in the boy’s eyes she collected herself and asked him who he was, so young and yet seemingly so dedicated to this high service in Greece’s holy of holies. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some American ambulance units were to be sent down and this hospital would look after them and any other Americans on service in Italy. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A gold-and-enamel lapel pin adorned with a ruby was to be bestowed upon her at the center’s annual awards ceremony, which recognized employees hitting milestones of service with the center. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Nailer grabbed a loose service panel and hurled it, but his father dodged easily. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She takes us to a small room with a patient table and a service sink. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He did not hear the refrigerator service man come to the back door. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once we decided to focus on service, Soojin made that the center of her platform. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Maycomb’s regular pastors ate free for a week also, and it was hinted in disrespectful quarters that the local clergy deliberately led their churches into holding separate services, thereby gaining two more weeks’ honoraria. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Sí, we will find water at gas stations. The cook said there are service stations everywhere in this state.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“So I'll be supervising you this morning. First services of the day begin in less than an hour; is there a reason you haven’t started your work?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Since I was the youngest grandson, I had the nerve-racking honor of asking the four questions traditional to the holiday service. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The minister ran through the service fast, his bland face tinted green beneath the canopy. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Annabelle swears he makes the fake crackling of bad phone service. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Henri the painter kept his chair at Red Williams’ service station. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pursuit planes were traded for additional cargo ships or retained for emergency invoice duty and small-parcel service; trucks and tanks were procured from the ground forces and used for short-distance road hauling. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow is the feast of Christ’s resurrection, and while the nuns attend the Easter Vigil service in the chapel, I keep my own vigil at Therese’s bedside. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He sat that way through the whole service. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Revenues from what the bureau described as “other personal services” increased 74 percent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was a serious one, but the knowledge of medicine and anatomy I'd absorbed willy-nilly in Dr. Bright's service told me that no artery had been severed. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

My father, who was a city employee most of his life, had essentially been conscripted into service as a Democratic precinct captain in order to even be considered for promotions at his job. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“None of you will be allowed to attend either the graduation commencement or the baccalaureate service,” Mother Lois announced over dinner. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A poor student, C.P. had quit school in the eighth grade and had gone to work at a service station, washing and greasing cars. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mother and Grandmother sometimes took me to churches in adjoining towns for the weekday twilight services. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Without a word, he let his gaze pass slowly over the long line of his men, as if recalling every one of them, remembering what good and what bad service each one had done him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“We accept Frank Zhang, Son of Mars, to the Twelfth Legion Fulminata for his first year of service. Do you pledge your life to the senate and people of Rome?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Lutheran congregations were expected to be active participants in the service, with communal hymn-singing given high status. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“He don’t think this is his war anyway. He’s got him a Sunoco service station back in New Jersey.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Eilis was one of our earliest huntresses; King Roland called her to service when she was only eighteen, and many people questioned whether she was ready to lead the Royal Hunt,” the huntress explained. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rufus finally let me write another letter—payment for services rendered, I supposed—and he mailed it for me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We both work a lot, but we go to services at the Original Church of God when we can.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He has taken Orcs into his service, and Wolf-riders, and evil Men, and he has closed the Gap against us, so that we are likely to be beset both east and west. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“According to Greg Comstock, they do all kinds of community service projects. It might also be nice for Cammie to hang out with some Christian teens.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

It annoys my father no end, but he rationalizes it by saying, “We live in a service economy. We all have to feed it somehow.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Then I found out. Mother finagled the governor to appoint me to the Council of Defense. The draft board said that could be my service.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I joined the older children in the back of the church just as the service began. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Starting November 1, he became national sales manager for a broader range of the bank’s money management services than he had been selling. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Shady said to tell you he’s holding church services this Sunday night and he’d be pleased to have you.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Luckily, Miss McDaniels stays mum about how it’s part of my required community service. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t much crime to deal with, but he was always on call to come help housewives move furniture, and anybody who needed a ride could depend on Tag to supply taxi service. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now it is a divisive national issue, pitting those who welcome cheap labor against those with concerns about border security and the cost of providing social services. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

No civilian except only the Boston doctors, who had offered their services, were allowed close to the wharf. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Molly hands over the community service forms, dutifully filled out and dated, along with the spreadsheet with the record of her hours and the required signatures. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

And he’d have some community service, which entailed doing a media interview, and talking to some schools. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Usually, Mr. Kellerman helps me,” he grumbles, letting me know that the service I am trained and ready to provide will not be required. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Carlos Bella had been a guard/counselor for New Jersey’s juvenile detention services department. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, we don’t have sponge mops like the one I use in my own house; the hands-and-knees approach is a definite selling point for corporate cleaning services like The Maids. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a son of God--a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that--and he must be about His Father's Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Churches hire armed guards to ensure peaceful services. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Ellis died on November 3, 2005, a memorial service was held for family members at a local funeral home. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Shady’s having a service at his place this Sunday night. He’d be pleased to have you.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

They took her up like a surrogate daughter and brought her with them to revival meetings and to snake-handling services over in Jolo. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The prayers went slowly; the man at the podium had a fine voice and waited until each portion of the service had been completed by everyone before he began to chant. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The Palace of Sargon II above Nineveh covered 25 acres and included more than 200 rooms and courtyards, including a brilliantly painted throne room, harem, service quarters, and guard room. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

Dad has a CD-ROM encyclopedia, a fax modem, and a Web navigator that gets hundreds of information services. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

IOI owned hundreds of regional telecom companies, effectively making them the largest Internet service provider in the world. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Link’s bar mitzvah was more than a religious service; it really changed people around here. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

There was regular jet service to Petersburg, but the sum of my liquid assets amounted to a 1960 Pontiac Star Chief and two hundred dollars in cash, not even enough for one-way airfare. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place will become known far and wide for its great food and fast service. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Enclosed you will find some tables and diagrams that should prove of some service to you. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a scholarship audition, I watch as Bobby Ryan is asked to talk about the breadth of his community service. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Perform a service and say it’s no big deal. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

If anything, weekly services at Gates of Praise had assured me of exactly the opposite. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Guiteau waited until the service ended and Garfield exited the church. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was a small undersized fellow with a foxy, waxed moustache, who had seen twelve years’ service and was in civil life a postman. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, child protective services placed us back in the home of the foster family we’d been with before. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Those who were formally students or involved in professions such as civil service, medicine, art, or teaching are considered morally corrupt. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hi, Father Mike. Beautiful service today,” Tessie said, and immediately regretted it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I pulled out my phone and once more pressed it into service as a makeshift flashlight. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“There’s a five-dollar service charge. What a rip-off. But the thing is, you try to sell the tickets, and all the customer’s gonna see is the face value.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The church was having a special service in honor of Juneteenth. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Food service workers brought them in and sold them to the cafeteria crews, who in turn had friends or relatives mail them the payments. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“And you, my oldest friend. Do me one last service. Lift my head a little and I will tell you what my failing eyes can see before I leave you.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Good men who pledged me their swords and prospered greatly by that service.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She shoved one of the cakes from the coffee service into her mouth and mumbled, “What do you want, Kaz?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The Bath minister was rushing over after his own service, and he preached well enough, though he was always a little out of breath. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

At his command, the mayor appeared at the services with four funeral wreaths, which he tried to place on the coffins, but the colonel ordered him into the street. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

We’d heard rumors that service in the military was no longer voluntary, that everyone between the ages of twenty-two and forty had to serve—most of them in the army’s new Psi branch. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

After swimming, Felix had hung out in Benji’s suite, eating room service and playing video games on their phones until after midnight. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Richard was a junior in high school, she was working in food service at a residential care facility. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He wondered if there was, only a few days after the hurricane, already a market for her services. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

On Sunday, June 25, 1950, the spy George Blake sat in a church service in Seoul, the capital of South Korea. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The service did my heart and I hope my soul some good. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rabbi would begin the service in a strong, vibrant voice that soon blended in with the voices of the congregation. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Your dad called my dad this morning, when we finally got service back. He said something about a family emergency? Then your uncle Phil came and picked me up, and here we are.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She quit the beauty salon, set up a messenger service as an operating front, and ran all of her business by telephone. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no telephone or mail service—no way of communicating with the clinic staff. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

All we paid for was the food and service. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The Louisiana National Guard had called four thousand troops into service. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

"You honor me, Khaleesi," she said, but it was no honor, only service. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“We wanted her to have some way to call emergency services if she got stuck,” he says. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Year-round, there is no cell phone service, at least not inside. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was around that time that he conceived the idea of establishing an airmail service. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Colonel Cathcart was indefatigable that way, an industrious, intense, dedicated military tactician who calculated day and night in the service of himself. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Because the mountains interfered with reception, in 1954 he erected an antenna on a high ridge and provided one of the first cable television systems in the United States as a free service. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Legal services is in a building about a quarter mile away. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Puritan service seemed to her as plain and unlovely as the bare board walls of the Meeting House. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“From over there—New London—born there. My uncle’s in the service and two cousins. I guess we’re a kind of submarine family.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The emergency service ambulance and the cops arrived at the same time. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing, I note, about providing a service or healing the sick. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the New Haven Line’s cooks and waiters still in railroad service today will remember old Pappy Cousins. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The differences between the old service and the new can be summarized in this change. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We got phone service back yesterday afternoon,” the woman said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

They managed an AIDS-prevention program in Boston and provided medical and social services to the poor. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Seven hundred and twenty dollars. Talk about a rip-off. They’re supposed to sell for fifty-five a piece, but they charge a five-dollar service charge for each ticket.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

They were given names and relatives, and special responsibilities for the cosmic services they were expected to perform. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, the box is in the hands of the postal service. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Clara’s command they turned onto a service road and continued among birches and onion fields until she ordered the driver to pull up along a clump of underbrush. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I remember seeing that boy at the memorial service for Devon because I remember that cap. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the year that teachers select students to volunteer in a foreign country and do service learning projects. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think so. My custodian called me. The parking lot is full of kids with candles. They told him it’s a memorial service for Cap Anderson!” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham was allowed to go home after she promised to do a thousand hours of public service. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I took out the disk and got into Dads personal library, looking for another information service. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always take a deposit for my services. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

While he traveled, however, Charles did go to church quite regularly, both to the services that his captain led and on shore whenever he got the chance. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got home, she waited for Ma to fall asleep, then called a car service and went back to Eric’s. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Today the island’s elite is diversified enough to support a synagogue where membership has reached 250 families and where the yarmulke worn during services is Nantucket red and decorated with miniature whales. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Every Friday night and Saturday morning at Sabbath services in the synagogue, I would stand next to my grandfather, bowing my head when he did and following his lead through the prayers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Text? Don’t bother. No service out here, son.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In the room were close to fifty men who would die for this flag, this country, this service, and this song. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The county discontinued bookmobile service in the eighties, and I told my husband, ‘Now, that’s a shame. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I didn’t feel the same twinge of painful embarrassment I sometimes felt when I saw my people in service positions in public places. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow’s heavy cooking and I’ve got the church supper Saturday night and the service on Sunday When am I going to clean my own house? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They walked silently down the corridor to the service elevator. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The prison service supplied me with boxes and crates for packing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s Samhuinn. I’m canceling our training today, but I wanted to see if you planned to attend the service.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Flamenco dancing had no practical application in the closed society prevailing in the capital back then, but Nicolas ran a discreet announcement in the paper offering his services as a teacher of that fiery art. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

From 1997 to 2002, revenues from hair, nail, and skin care services jumped by 42 percent nationwide, Census Bureau data show. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Some wore headsets, but others sat in the audience with earpieces like the undercover secret service. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

They are generally charged with misdemeanors and typically receive sentences involving fines, license suspension, and community service. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“We don’t need a service,” she said after a long while. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s bringing in floral arrangements to decorate the synagogue on the big day, and he’s paying for the congregational Kiddush, which is like a mini lunch after the service is over. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The problem for me was that the cell service on my BlackBerry had somehow disconnected, never sending out my messages or downloading updates from others. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

More than once I walked into drugstores where a Negro can buy cigarettes or anything else except soda fountain service. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Your son did a great service for us," the man said, waving his hand toward the moon. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“A quick service, that is well and good. A long and formal one would not have gone well for me, had I awakened too soon,” I said with a smile. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She’d wanted to hear all the nice things folks would say about her, so they went ahead and held the services early. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“One of the She Elephant’s little services is to provide children for people who can’t have them.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Thereafter, the ladies joined our supper by way of payment for their services, and we sat below and held a more somber feast than our last musical festival, before Norfolk had burned. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She told Mister Lochana that she wouldn’t be using his services anymore, but we ended up on his speedboat again the next week because the ferry to Saint Thomas was too expensive. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I love the service in this city,” Jack says, his forehead sweating now. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I even had maid service—didn't have to make a bed or pick a wet towel off the floor for half a year. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The graduates then headed off to stateside service at bases like Maryland’s Naval Air Station Patuxent River, ground zero for the navy’s flight test activity. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Admittedly, Anker was getting the services of a talented musician for a bargain price, but it was a deal I was happy to make. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Since then, basically, it’s only been a public service to me because they let me borrow as many movies as I want. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“If I had sons, I would be glad to give them up to the service of the Dark Lord!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I had to laugh at this indignant athlete, with the strength of five people, complaining about the service. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were high-school seniors, and the clock was ticking: once out of high school all American males faced two years of compulsory military service. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

They were made to have separate churches, with separate services, and separate priests. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad even went so far as to ask Mom if there were any arm-removal services in the area. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We sang a hymn and ended the services holding hands and saying the Twenty-third Psalm. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was your family’s turn for Oneg Shabbat. It may not seem like a ‘big deal,’ bringing fruit and cookies for Friday-night services, but it’s important to our school, to our community.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Before the British Empire there were no railroads or postal services in India, and Africa was full of tribal warfare, with spears, and had no proper clothing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If it’s an hundred years’ war he’ll have time to try both of the services.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Thank you for your impeccable wingman service to this old lady on her final adventure. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Artemis Fowl, at your service. And you are?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

There came to him again the communion service at which Elisha had knelt at his father’s feet. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The answer was that white people had driven the prices higher by “over-bidding one another” for the services of the few black nurses available. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

All Mom said was they were coming to the temple service. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Either her phone is off, or she has no service. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a miracle the phone service had lasted as long as it had, long enough for Papi and Carlos to call. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

In fact, compared with Wal-Mart’s unctuous service ethic, Todd’s emphasis on the bottom line is positively refreshing. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe they had already held a memorial service. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I sat in on Dr. Bright's service and heard the very sermon I had transcribed at Dewsbury a fortnight before. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

During that period some medicinal substances were being pressed into service as substitutes for liquor, being exempt from the prohibition law. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Believed in the best services for all the people and all the rest of it. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

His younger brother Sandor had left the same day to take service with the Lannisters as a sworn sword, and it was said that he had never returned, not even to visit. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I have knights and lords in my service, scions of noble Houses old in honor. They cannot be expected to serve under poachers, peasants, and murderers.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The farthest we go as a family is taking the car service to church. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She had been awarded tickets to the 9/11 memorial service for her charity work, because she had spent the better part of the entire last year helping to set up the temporary memorial. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“No one’s really going to give me work as a landscape gardener. I don’t want to teach, or go in for the civil service. And medicine interests me...” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Adam stared into his coffee cup and said in apology, “What little brutes! I guess that’s your reward for over ten years of service.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Andean societies were based on the widespread exchange of goods and services, but kin and government, not market forces, directed the flow. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

State law in Delaware once had explicitly restricted jury service to white men, and “no colored citizen had ever been summoned as a juror.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She smiled politely through the rest of the service, already knowing she would never come back. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Four years of loyal, dangerous service to the Confederacy had proved that. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three times a week from some bar, supermarket, or tire-and-tool-cluttered service station, I put calls through to New York and reestablished my identity in time and space. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walking home from the one o’clock service. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She also took on various domestic service jobs from some of the club’s members. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

My modem was sadly outdated, my free service substandard; just dialing up took so long that I decided to go get myself a bowl of cereal while I waited. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Soon she was singing well enough to be entrusted with solos when the junior choir performed at the church’s main Sunday service. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Even in that last battle, he had been well served by what he called the “honest, sensible and diligent men” of Americas first intelligence service. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because he used his giant strength only in the service of good, he was always a very popular man. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Officer Crams deftly frisked him, and came up with Rick’s service pistol and laser tube. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She might have the very proof that Ned needed to bring the Lannisters to ruin, and if it came to war, they would need the Arryns and the eastern lords who owed them service. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Near the end of the service, a tall, thin-faced lady toppled over backward into the snow and struck Liyana with her elbow on the way down. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We need a maid to clean out the cells. Dying men do puke out some terrible things, they do. You’re a steadfast girl. Tell your mistress we’d pay her the going rate for your services.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither city nor business services had been able to get into the neighborhood while the uncontrolled violence was occurring. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Reverend Hunt performs the service, and we have a good meal afterward, with several chickens sacrificed for the celebration. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The bones were gone, though, so he said, “You have better men than me in your service. Knights and lords and maesters. Why would you need a smuggler? You have ships.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As the services progressed night after night, my mother tried to persuade me to join, to save my soul at last, to become a member of a responsible community church. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hospital employed top-notch military surgeons and offered excellent rehabilitation services, geared to handle the most devastating of battlefield injuries. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Do you want my services for this costume or not, niña?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They were all three of an age with Lord Hoster, men who had spent their lives in her father's service. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Another nun, Sister Katarina, was coming to keep an eye on the baby while Sister Fenella went to the oratory for a private service of her own, or so Malcolm gathered. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sorry, honey....The A train was out of service....No taxis anywhere...So sorry...” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He’d spent the entire service trying not to scream at the top of his lungs. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In this litany, it was somehow very clear that these jobs, they were the exceptions, and that “service” had mostly been of another kind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Soon after the conqueror’s death, Ptolemy, a childhood companion, advisor, and officer in long service to Alexander, solicited the fiefdom of Egypt. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

A prayer was offered to close the service, then the crowd rushed me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I think I do. I think they should arrest you and lock you up as a community service.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“You’re a fine kind of service man if you don’t even know how to put an extra handle on the inside of an icebox door.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“See you at the morning service, Lord willing.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He lived during the Jim Crow era—when black men were considered free, but were barred from voting in elections, living where they wanted, or getting the same education or services as whites. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, in a service attended by President Wilson. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She had avoided the services at the colored churches in town. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I refused to look directly at her when I replied, “I like them okay, but my mama did bad things, so social services had to take me away for my own good.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Newsome Park and the hundreds of neighborhoods like it around the country became increasingly volatile, desperate islands where housing, schooling, and every other state- supplied service were left to deteriorate. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I remember one Sunday, Mrs. Malloy stood at the podium at the end of service. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The ornate church building stood on land that long ago saw services held in a rude brush arbor and led by a former slave. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a condensed church service that included songs and hymns as well as a sermon by Armstrong, often about the naturalness and practicality of the scriptures. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Colonel Cargill was so awful a marketing executive that his services were much sought after by firms eager to establish losses for tax purposes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

That Sunday, after the morning service, Aunt Pearl marched him up to Reverend Price. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole family drove slowly through swirling snow to the Garden Tomb, where Liyana’s mother wanted to attend the sunrise service. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

One after another, these institutions would cave in to protesters’ demands and admit blacks—as long as they could pay for the services. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Urban factories shut down as our nation transitioned to a service economy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But we were perplexed at how short the service was. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She called her mother from the salon and that was when she found out about the visit from child services. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The ad is for “customer service” work, a type of job I tend to avoid because it normally involves a resume, which in turn would involve levels of prevarication I am not prepared to attempt. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The service was held at nearby Sixth Avenue Baptist Church, since our church was closed for repairs. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Each entering saint, before he could take part in the service, must commune for a moment alone with the Lord. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He didn’t quite understand what Natalie meant when she talked about Ms. Morales calling social services, but he could see why it would be a problem to call the police. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

We have also built enough houses for everyone, and a new church for Reverend Hunt to hold our daily services in. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

After the service, I do my regular job collecting the hymnals from the choir rows. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She realized that Oakley Street was a branch of some sort of secret service, but since all she did was interpret the alethiometer on their behalf, she knew very little more. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Neither one liked pomp and ceremony, so the service was quick and attended only by a few members of their close family. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mabel's parents offered to help me plan a service, but I didn't call them back. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

One Sunday, when regular service was over, Father James had uncovered sin in the congregation of the righteous. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was why he was so good at customer service at the restaurant. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There were more services available in the state’s Division of Juvenile Justice facilities than in the county’s Juvenile Hall, she argued, and the sooner Richard was sentenced, the sooner he could take advantage of them. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We rarely walked in or out of a building’s front door when we could be rushed through a service entrance or loading dock on a side street. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps someone should stay back to guard the way,” said the unhappy bug, offering his services; but, since his suggestion was met with silence, he followed glumly along. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

A trained nurse, although nursing wasn’t the point, and she had done service in Ethiopia and Guatemala and Mexico. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the adult service ends, we meet Uhmma in the fellowship hall. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Apart from Professor Papadimitriou, almost her only contact with the service was the acorn. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He slapped at a service panel’s lock and tore it away. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

A mere ten days ago, after rooting around on the Internet for a little while, Molly located a cache of adoption registry services, narrowing her search to the one rated highest among users. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

One was brutal, the other mean, but both had spent most of their lives in service at the Dreadfort. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In 1947, a Mississippi hotel denied service to the Haitian secretary of agriculture, who had come to the state to attend an international conference. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

For instance, Forrester Research, Inc., was projecting that more than three million service and professional jobs would move out of the country by 2015. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mountain Air, he says, is an “environmental consulting firm” offering help to people with asthma and allergies as a “free service. ” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Daddy stayed up late answering every one of my questions about Grandma’s services, and Aunt Lena and her kids, he left early for work this morning. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

For he knew them to be sincere young people, dedicated to the service of the Lord—it was only that, since they were young, they did not know the pitfalls Satan laid for the unwary. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Since his sons avoided the hardships of military service, they became private citizens after having been dukes. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

He kept his mouth shut about his military service, and as he wandered around aimlessly with his long hair and unwashed clothes, nobody asked. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

C.P. was anxious about finding another job, but during a conversation with the owner of one of the stores on his route, he learned that a nearby service station was for sale. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

My father told me that some of them were advertisements, offering a heavy winter coat for sale, or somebody’s services in writing a letter home, or perhaps a request to buy a demon watch. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Germany needed any and all men for service. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Being too old for active battle service he reasoned that the best way he could serve his order was by putting his fertile brain to work. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When she objected, they flattered her—even going so far as to award her the Order of the Red Star in recognition of her service to the motherland. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even the Navy admitted that the Coast Guard was “10 years more advanced” than its own intercept service. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They wanted to mark their service, and they wanted it to be remembered. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Prison, said the department’s assistant director of mental health services at the Academy, was “a hard place to be crazy.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She gave out our community service assignments yesterday.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Eventually somebody ends up in charge of allocating goods and services. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I mean, I was doing the world a service. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

His father had not been a religious man; only once a year did he attend church, the one time each year that a service was held in the Milagro church. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ice plant did not take up much of his time, and he had a clear service record and an honorable discharge him- self. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

With each passing year, it seemed that the work Mary loved and the community service that gave her life meaning were becoming one and the same. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Some of the kids at the funeral service were girls from school, who had laughed when Lettie told me how stupid and backward rootworking was. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Poppy had joined a human-rights group to focus on treatment and services for old people. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Modern spymasters call them double agents—spies who work for two intelligence services at the same time, giving information to one service about the other. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kanei came back and sat with us on the stools that were provided for the funeral service, which only we attended, along with the man on whose verandah Saidu had left us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They’d gone out for their meals, neither of them able to afford the items on the room service menu. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We decide that one pattern is in the service of the other, or that both are in the service of a third motive. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lucy’s memorial service,” I say with a small voice. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

"Must be the service road," a nicer male voice offered. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Because the mountains impeded north-south communication, it was much easier to coordinate the flow of goods and services east to west. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The supply of new entrants is low, and the demand is high, because there is a large wave coming behind him providing a strong demand for the goods and services of his potential employers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

At church one week, the deacons were praying to the Lord for peace, and Mrs. Duncan and a few other ladies cried through the entire service. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They went on Christmas and Easter for the long services with their grandparents in the Bronx. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

After the church service, we’d decided to skip the formal luncheon and had gone to a diner. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Funeral services were held at the Saigon Airport and each casket was pinned with Vietnamese and American medals. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Each cell had a white card posted outside of it with our name and our prison service number. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Today we shall provide a much-needed public service,” Goddard told them, with far too much glee. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

After my first few days the food service worker who had been delivering the special hospital meals took pity on me bouncing off my yellow walls like a cricket trapped in a box. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

His assistant approached me after the Sunday service and said I was wanted in the bishop’s office. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"Beautiful Belles, welcome to my court and the beginnings of your divine service to our world. Without you and the gods, we would be nothing." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The short service ended, the casket was lowered into the cold ground. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It is not enough to give lip service and to believe in equal pay: there has to be a conversion, from the heart. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We will begin the shukrani service momentarily,” one of the brothers of the temple called out. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A public service, is what he called it. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He’d held the post for years, in part because loyal service to the party machine was more or less expected of city employees. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Men can enlist in the service at eighteen but cannot vote until age twenty-one. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

JonJon hadn’t written very frequently at first: it seems he started shortly after returning from his military service, but there are weeks—and sometimes months—between the first handful of entries. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Before opening a new door, I’d get a quick briefing on the service member and his or her situation. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Thinking I’ve never worked a shift or two at Flora’s Floras, and had to get there by taking the bus, and slept through the bus so I had to call a car service. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

In no time at all men began to arrive, offering their service as hired hands, because I paid well and gave them meals. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Otherwise the next black person who comes in will get awful service, because waiters groan when they get a black table. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After a religious service in the Capitol on Friday afternoon, the casket was taken back to the Baltimore and Potomac railroad station. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Who would want to believe that, except in the service of the bleakest realism? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As they passed the Iron Duke, the British military service band started into a waltz. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Our lawyer says I probably won’t have to go to juvie, but for sure I’m going to end up with some kind of community service. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It was as though I had told them something which they'd wished very much to hear, had rendered them an important service which I couldn't understand. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We said we would all be at the services. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We heard you are in the market for lawn mowing services, and we thought we’d do you one better. We propose a trade.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But now the life of service no longer seems an option. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

On the decks of ships and the shores of Pacific islands, Marines, sailors, and soldiers knelt and wept together in prayer services for our fallen president. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did she wake up in a feather bed, toast and coffee served on a silver service? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

At Chumley, they have professional security guards who wear earpieces and look like they just retired from the secret service. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Dad’s having his coffee and Ma’s in the living room listening to the Sunday morning service by Brother Jonas. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ignoring the waitress’s growing anger, Blair continued to press for service, arguing, with a logic that only infuriated the woman, that if Woolworth’s didn’t want to serve the public perhaps they should sell membership cards. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But I was escorted safely to my room, where I ordered room service; even the footsteps of the waiters put me on edge. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was intrigued at just how advanced this form of service outsourcing had become. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I’m always amused by commercials for banks which tout their personalized service, which service amounts to a poorly trained and badly paid cashier saying “Good morning” and then promptly fouling up your transaction. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These social services people want to send me back to Florida, but I’m not much in the mood to go.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

No one in this community is ever going to let me get close enough to do any kind of service. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Searching for a way to get ahead, some blacks stuck in service jobs thought that joining forces in an organized way, black and white laborers together, might be their ticket to something better. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mother scored the coup of having the Reverend come to our house for supper following the Christmas Eve services. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Victim services and outreach became critical components of the prosecutorial function. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

One of the closed-off bedrooms held the ghost of Alvin Caruthers, still wearing his service uniform and drinking to numb the pain of a heart broken by a war fought in trenches. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Families that live too far to go home between services cook their meal there on Sunday, and in the winter they can warm themselves at a fire.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a plan. Let’s go to my suite. We’ll order everything off the room service menu. For old times’ sake.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Girl, Beatrice Taylor, was in service with her. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

They were seamlessly connected to the commanders of the four military services in a state-of-the-art interface. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

When the regiment was flying combat missions, the armorers had to service the aircraft two or three times every day. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Tell him the fire service is on its way to meet him,” said the radio officer. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Unbelievably, despite Olmsted’s hectoring, Burnham still seemed to consider steam-powered launches an acceptable choice for the exposition’s boat service. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He had been asked to speak at the burial service, but as it was his rule not to attend funerals he was unable to accept this invitation. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She watched as a swarm of fitters and the fire service team closed in to lift the pilot and his life' less crew out of the plane. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

"I would advise you gentlemen to get some sandwiches. All the places for the first four services were reserved at the office of the company." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes this comparison was made with regard to the conditions, where hospitals were not open or working, where clean water and other basic services weren’t available. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Einstein was honored, somewhat vaguely, "for services to theoretical physics." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was his job to lead all the College services, to preach and pray and hear confessions. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He hated allocating jobs, he wished he never had to depend on other people to perform some of the services necessary in his work. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Andrea reminds herself every night how lucky these Deckers are to have her at their service. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Some women did indeed spend their days in rote service to the day’s task, plotting data with blithe indifference, routing torrents of numbers as nonchalantly as the calculating machines they cradled. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“He can call in the police, the army and the secret service. If he says ‘boo,’ a mugger at the other end of the city drops a wallet.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

We know they’re the ones who will get jobs in the civil service and help the people who run the world. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I came to offer myself as escort to your mother. Mr. Laurence has commissions for me in Washington, and it will give me real satisfaction to be of service to her there.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, he was directing an organization that functioned very like a secret service, which not many years before had been part of the security and intelligence services of the Crown. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Would you rather be put up at the Ritz with free room service and unlimited access to a doctor or be homeless without a soul to care for you? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Funeral services for Warren Wright, 17, will be held Friday, February 19, at 11 a.m. at the Walter E. Griffith Funeral Home, 5636 Brownsville Road. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her customers recommended her service to their friends. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our savior came for neither of these reasons, but because Bailey yelled so loud and disturbed what was left of the service, the minister’s wife came out and asked Uncle Willie to quiet us down. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one inflexible event on our weekly schedule was Sunday morning religious services. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Since he’s clearly unfit for service, I say we borrow his ambulance,” Enoch said. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I charged a small service fee. It’s not illegal. It’s called free enterprise, protected by the Constitution.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“You can be the best individual oarsmen in the country, but you will be of no service or use to this squad unless you whip up your class efforts. . . . That means study!” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The next few weeks we stay busy planning Mrs. Peck’s appreciation service. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She was acquainted with all the services the state and the church provided for taking care of the disadvantaged. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who wanted to participate launched mass demonstrations and strikes, which soon spread to the Bophuthatswana civil service. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I must say, I never thought he would end up in the diplomatic service of the witches.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He spent nine months in the service, most of it sitting in the hole, growing angrier and angrier. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The day after my father died, we drove to a South Side funeral parlor—me, my mother, and Craig—to pick out a casket and plan a service. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Its residents’ struggle to maintain their dignity despite absentee landlords and poor city services was intense and ongoing. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I thought of the Underdowns’ home in Léopoldville with its Persian rugs and silver tea service and chocolate cookies, surrounded by miles of tin shanties and hunger. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that, most of those planes were taken into government service. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Like Washington, so his defenders might have argued, Burr refused to place his own political convictions at the service of any party. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Whenever a Japanese pilot volunteered to become a kamikaze pilot he was given a funeral service before he got into his plane. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The protests of the workers this time were based on the lack of sanitary facilities in their living quarters, the nonexistence of medical services, and terrible working conditions. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When combat injuries resulted in death months or years later, service members' names were added to the Wall. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was going to be a hot service. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He does not require your death. Only your allegiance. Pledge him your service. Renounce the gods. That is all.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

After services in the synagogue, people would sit on their porches, chatting and chewing pumpkin seeds. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Soon after, I found a pamphlet for the university counseling service on my desk. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At home he lived with his mother, who worked at a service station convenience store as a clerk. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

To make good on this offer, the automobile manufacturing plants were called into service. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In this cause, or service, Zooey had been, of all the Glasses, hands down, the most voraciously examined, interviewed, and poked at. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Might do you some good being in the service” he said. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Every municipality has a suicide hotline, and they’re listed right in the government services section of the yellow pages,” it says. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

One night she rang for service and I went to wait upon her. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the following issue Arthur printed a public service advertisement urging islanders to buy war bonds. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

During World War II, many Coalwood miners, including my father, were exempted from service because of the need for coal in the war effort. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You gave me your word, Severus. And while we are talking about services you owe me, I thought you agreed to keep a close eye on our young Slytherin friend?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They were recommended for it—after their heroic service at Voronezh, they got special Guards uniforms ordered for them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I left through the service gate. Didn’t see anybody following me.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

But he had been enlisted in the service of villainy—basically, he was in cahoots with an arch-nemesis. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Mr. Chong was a retired piano teacher and my mother had traded housecleaning services for weekly lessons and a piano for me to practice on every day, two hours a day, from four until six. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually there was a lot of handshaking and friendly conversation after service, but today everyone hurried out, grabbing their children and rushing to their own homes. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As a result, about 30 percent of black men are automatically banned from jury service for life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“He was going to East Africa, sir, and did not require my services any longer. But I am sure he will speak for me, sir. I was with him some years.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the larger society, too, the cost of repression becomes another factor weighing against the expansion or restoration of needed services. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have done me a service, boy. Few heroes could have accomplished as much.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Later in the service, when Pastor Gideon would leap out in his sharp-shouldered suit and pointy shoes, and say, “Our God is not a poor God, amen? It is our portion to prosper, amen?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

More than anything else, it was the lack of concern and responsiveness by police, prosecutors, and victims' services providers that devastated Mozelle and Onzelle. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

One agent inside the CIA never gave up on the idea that a mole had burrowed into the heart of the America spy service. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

There they told us the bus service did not start until the 1st of July. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

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

But now I’m pretty sure that’s either because she lost service, or her phone is dead. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It would be much worse if phone service was working perfectly and we still didn’t hear from them. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Set out the good crystal, put the silver service out. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We were holding the services at the funeral home. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There is also to be a special service at one of the churches and some kind of a contest with a gold medal for the prize. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Your rooms are prepaid through December first, but every morning we charge the previous day’s incidentals, like room service and pet cleaning fees. Today the payment was denied.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have lost four sons in the king’s service, and my fifth serves as his squire. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He shakes his head, No, no record of your service here. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The privatization of prison health care, prison commerce, and a range of services has made mass incarceration a money-making windfall for a few and a costly nightmare for the rest of us. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The service passed in a blur of tears and music, and afterwards, people started filling Albert’s house. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Rabbis resisted by conducting services on Jewish holy days. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

His zeal for the service lost him his life. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“You’ll have to talk to social services and start the paperwork to be Gerald’s temporary guardian. Are you his only relative? Does he have a father?” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Citra felt odd not being of service at the table, so she got up to refill the scythe’s glass of water. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Who asks if they can be of service?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Leaving their driveway, the roads are dotted with trucks servicing electrical lines, no birds in sight. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It could be sort of like that dating service that introduced Tía Inés to the guy with the pinkie rings and toupee. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“They performed a great public service in showing the people who did become frightened that they should not be so gullible.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Free from the BDM and compulsory labor service, her new life had begun at last. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Good customer service, good customer service, good customer service,” Bisola said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“But I could exchange my service for something more enduring! For treasure! A single massage is too fleeting.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She repeated some of those social services kind of words like reevaluate and stable environment. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The Free African Society was the one and only group to step forward and offer its services. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

But since he had called our names at the beginning of the service we were mollified. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After services I bring Captain Smith some food. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He took his meals alone, with two dogs to wait upon him, and always ate from the Crown Derby dinner service which had been in the glass cupboard in the drawing-room. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Knot slapped a lever and tapped a button inside the service hole. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

As a matter of fact, he was the butler there at the time, but now he's left service altogether and is employed by a business near by. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The subsequent articulation by his very talented friend Chappell constituted the final phase of acquisition, the triumphal phase, though he used Chappell’s services only sparingly. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The arcana are for the service of others. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“I was a tailor in Poland. I can make suits. Surely there are others who can make goods or provide services for money.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Later, as they ate and drank together, and sang regimental songs, their reunion would also become a memorial service to their dead: an act of remembrance. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Miss Deveraux told me that you’re a bit impulsive and she was worried for your welfare. Told me your services were a gift from her now deceased father, and how valuable she finds your companionship.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Here is how it works: Internet-based services companies are emerging today all across the Web. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Now we’ll start the last part of our service. Why don’t you stand in a semicircle right here around Our Lady.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It helped to break down global regionalism, created a more seamless global commercial network, and made it simple and almost free to move digitized labor—service jobs and knowledge work—to lower-cost countries. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

It felt like guests were really responding to our extra level of service. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“As concerned library lovers,” said the gentleman, brandishing a thick document, “we are here today to volunteer our services.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“And your mom, of course. And we were thinking that I could help you after school a couple times a week. Until we can get you into formal services here at school.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I have caused the removal from the service of a considerable number of employees,” he informed White and other special agents. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was as though I had told them something which they'd wished very much to hear, had rendered them an important service which I couldn't understand. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to hire women, but by law she had to choose from lists of people who had taken civil service exams in math or science. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

On the plane to Lima for Father Jack’s memorial service, Farmer wondered to Ophelia what he could have done to save his good friend. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Each ring signified one year’s service with the Golden Company. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Lazlo’s grasp of the spoken language was tenuous, but he managed to answer, in uncertain grammar, “I want to come with you. Please, let me be of service.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He pulls out his palmphone—he’s not rich enough for one of those fancy wrist things—but strangely, there’s no service. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The boys figured they could knock on doors in town and offer their services. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“You have to give me the name of a specific taxi service,” she said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

After the service, I follow Bo to the candles where a few other people have gathered. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But in the end she offered him a tiny smile, and this was enough to make the young man swell with pride at the fine service he had provided that day. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were a service man,” he said. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the top, members of the core class could obtain jobs in government, the Korean Workers’ Party, officer ranks of the military, and the intelligence services. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Mom was a church-hopper, always dragging Noah and me with her, except never when a service was going on. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

In 1952, the year Perry completed his military service, the old man was in the midst of plans meant to end his travels forever. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Please," he told them, "do let me be of service, in whatever small way I can." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He’d held his church service the night before, followed by a potluck, but it turned out to be more of a “down on your luck,” as only one person showed up. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“But the American customer service can be so annoying. Someone hovering around and bothering you all the time. Are you still working on that? Since when did eating become work?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The hundred hours of community service she had been given for her actions were nothing compared to the way people pretended not to stare when she walked by. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There they stopped to fill their canteens at an all-night service station. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Even the farmer himself seldom understands the value of wild bees and often participates in the very measures that rob him of their services. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Tea Cake found that he was part of a small army that had been pressed into service to clear the wreckage in public places and bury the dead. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

From what I can tell, the service is at least two hours away. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I offered my services to farmers for food and a bed of straw in the barn. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Rosa had turned his family against him and left him—a scrawny orphaned eight-year-old—at the mercy of social services. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After services whooping kids fill the red-dirt churchyard and fly kites. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After service, the adults linger, talking while we play and run around until Deacon Boyd tells us to stop playing in the Lord’s house. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘Have pity on one worn out in your service. Send me not from your side! I at least will stand by you when all others have gone. Do not send your faithful Gríma away!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the service, I thought constantly of Mr. Savo and Billy. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Just before the start of this service, I was informed that, despite a credible eyewitness account, the police department has no intentions of arresting the officer who murdered this young man.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Mothers with children in the service organized into militant groups and demanded revenge. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I kept trying to make myself tell Howard about that squinty-eyed social services lady and how the situation at home had improved. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He told us he almost felt sorry for the software salesmen when he handed them the bill, which didn’t even include the hefty fine from the park service for trashing the sea grass. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Although Jack’s parents had both grown up in religious Jewish households, they did not go to weekly services. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the postal service in Utah feared confusion with the town of Fremont. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She made it sound like we were doing a great service by helping the newspaper carriers become more “organized and accountable.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I have to slog through nine choices until finally I'm asked to hold for the next available customer service representative. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my father and I came into the synagogue that morning, the service had just begun. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“A means to ensure that those who seek my services are in earnest.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to discuss Captain Cook with this unsympathetic service man, who was already staring at Mr. Popper as if he thought Mr. Popper was not quite right in his head. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Did your parents mention I’d spoken with them after the service?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Janie held his head tightly to her breast and wept and thanked him wordlessly for giving her the chance for loving service. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Virtually everyone supplying goods and services to the city had raised their rates, explaining that shortages of items and the general danger forced up their costs. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Like the preacher at my mother’s service told me, no one could feel the pain like I could. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Two days later, halfway through the service, it seemed as though Ruth was going to be the lone member of the bereaved family there. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the Sunday school lesson, the classes would all gather together in a large assembly before the morning service began. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa didn’t preach the sermon at his second home church service. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Only Freddie the janitor took liberties with Macon Dead, liberties he purchased with the services he rendered, and Freddie was the last person on earth to tell him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pastor Birch has been kind enough to allow Reverend Sloan to join him here, waiting for the service to begin. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know he wouldn’t be leading the shukrani service today, honestly. I was trying to find you.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Nailer turned to continue down the service passage, but as he did he banged his head on the duct ceiling. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I felt we owed the captain something. For services rendered.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

With men being absorbed into the military services, with women already in demand by eager employers, the labor market was as exhausted as the war workers themselves. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Oh, sure, sure,” said the service man, edging toward the back door. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You should hurry back. It would be a shame if you failed your community service requirements right at the end of the year.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The preacher continued explaining that it would be a short service because “it ain’t no point sitting around pouting,” and “sister Brown wouldn’t want no whole lotta tears.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

To Stansbury’s surprise, he later wrote, Arnold “communicated to me, under a solemn obligation of secrecy, his intention of opening his services to the commander-in-chief of the British forces....” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good morning, sir. Might I be of service?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

If you receive poor service in a nice store and ask to see “the person in charge,” do you expect that this person will be a person of another race? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Geez, the service in this place...oh, wait, never mind, here she comes. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you know there’s a second service in the afternoon?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

After the service there was a kiddush, consisting of schnapps and some cakes and cookies. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Bingley urged Mr. Jones’s being sent for immediately; while his sisters, convinced that no country advice could be of any service, recommended an express to town for one of the most eminent physicians. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

In his “service” was a young boy, a pipel, as they were called. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hasn’t taken a cheerful evening walk in a week and a half, ever since phone service disappeared. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I mused on the funeral day, the coffin, the hearse, the black train of tenants and servants—few was the number of relatives—the gaping vault, the silent church, the solemn service. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

During those fifteen minutes before the next worship service, church folk would talk with one another, admire the babies, purposefully compliment and encourage the youth, and visit the restrooms. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’m dragged through the church’s back door, which is only ever used by the priest and the choir during service and leads out to the courtyard and classrooms. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Right. Most of the social networking sites are gone, and all of the e-mail services are required to monitor the e-mails being sent on their servers.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I was never the one paying for the room, but still, I resent being made to feel guilty for requesting a service an expensive hotel is generally expected to perform. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He tells the hospital that no religious services are necessary, is told that the ashes would be ready in a few days. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But on November 5, exactly eleven years to the day after William’s funeral, a small crowd of family and friends gathered for a memorial service. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There was a funeral service for her in the church. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I got is church choir rehearsal today and Sunday service tomorrow. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I hurried forward around the curve of highway until I saw it came from an isolated service station at the top of the hill. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the government withdrew the guard, one of them continued living in the house and was in her service for many years. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Reggie could take a sentence that ranged up to ninety days in jail and included community service. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It is rankling, too, to be encouraged to buy all of one’s goods in white stores and then be refused soda-fountain or rest-room service. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might be feat a service is finishing, for light comes from fee doorway behind her, an organ is playing inside, and fee lady is holding a jeweled breviary. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

When a member of his congregation did not show up at church, he went straight to his home after services and yelled at him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

All the sisters would be in the oratory for the final service of the day, except for Sister Fenella, he supposed, and Sister Katarina, if she was looking after Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

His chain smoking gave him a chronic cough, causing army doctors to declare him “permanently incapacitated for active service.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, they came to church service most weeks,” Gloria is saying. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Blacks had offered their services as a group, and yet Carey had not bothered to praise them for this or honor them to the same degree he honored those on the committee. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Farmers must always keep the future in mind and must work in its service. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whoever had prospects on the outside, and the energy to go, was leaving, relocating, or entering military service. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

We set out cold, we arrived at church colder: during the morning service we became almost paralysed. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

No service ethic challenges me here to new heights of performance. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, some of us may have to drop out of All-City in order to do the service hours. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

During this service period, city boys and girls were sent to the country to help farmers plant crops and bring in the harvest. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The heavy metal service door slowly swung open. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It was only sixteen francs apiece for Bill and me, with ten per cent added for the service, and we had the bags sent down and waited for Robert Cohn. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

While the service station checked his oil and tires, Doc washed his face and combed his beard and when he came back to the car a number of potential hitchhikers were waiting. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Depew sent an immediate response: “I am at your service when ordered and quite ready after today’s events to contribute my body to Chicago science.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Will it? Then will you set about it at once, blacksmith?” said the off-hand sergeant, “as it’s on his Majesty’s service. And if my men can bear a hand anywhere, they’ll make themselves useful.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I realized he didn't know if he’d be invited back next year for the community service project. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He points at an ad for a mini bus service. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Insofar as the poor have to work near the dwellings of the rich—as in the case of so many service and retail jobs—they are stuck with lengthy commutes or dauntingly expensive housing. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like how nervous she gets before a big community service event or how frustrating it is when straight girls flirt with her. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Ignatius looked over at the bar to try to attract some sort of service and caught the eye of the bartender who had served his mother and him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I met no rebuffs, only gentleness when they informed me they could not use my services as typist, bookkeeper, etc. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She snagged the most feminine backpack off a line of hooks and left through a back exit into the casino’s service hallway. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The Blood Shrike can resign, but only if the Emperor agrees to release him from service. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I hate the way the word out has been sexualized and forced into service for all things gay. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“We are no longer in need of your services, Tantalus,” Mr. D announced. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

A smart person would be able to put the Hillpark Gym Graffiti Incident—which most of East Shoal knew about—together with my community service. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He declared the museum work “an intriguing public service.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Most civilized nations compensate for the inadequacy of wages by providing relatively generous public services such as health insurance, free or subsidized child care, subsidized housing, and effective public transportation. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eight days after the crash, a pilot named Mikhail Sakharov in a civilian aviation service seaplane finally spotted the downed Rodina. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I’d trade it in a heartbeat for a night at a hotel with room service.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Now, Gideon and I had been to enough church services, hoping to get a hot meal afterward, that I’d heard the word a time or ten. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When we arrived home from the service, Dad was incensed that lunch wasn’t ready. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She repaid the gift by giving it magnificent care, expert service and maintenance that was given with the emotionless precision of a mechanic. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All over Harlem during the hour or so before that, Christian church services were dismissing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was courtly, and referred to us as “gentlemen,” even doffing his hat to us, something no one else in the prison service ever did. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Central to the system’s success, Bigari said, is the way it pairs customers’ photos with their orders; by increasing accuracy, the system cuts down on the number of complaints and therefore makes the service faster. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

My father told me they were from the intelligence services. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

So you could send e-mail to other people without having to worry about what hardware or e-mail service they had. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the morning, room service brings up crusty baguettes and sticky tarts filled with fat apricots and a copy of Le Monde that Alex makes Henry translate out loud. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Inside was an impressive sum of cash and a brief note: Perhaps you will find it convenient to receive a portion of your salary prior to going shopping— with thanks for your service & c., The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I sat there, staring at the first psalm of the service and thinking of the almost new prayer book I had held in my hands that morning. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

When my work was done, I read the stories on the wire services. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

General Steyn was that unusual thing in the prison service, a polished and sophisticated man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a very long prayer, the minister said, “Surely a simple service would do, then the cremation, just as he’d asked.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

So even with the outsourcing of some service jobs from the United States to India, India’s growing economy is creating a demand for many more American goods and services. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon we had to run escort service for a civilian pacification team. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some came from generations of military service, while others were teenage girlfriends who’d become brides just ahead of a deployment—their futures now having taken a sudden, complicated turn. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

With him came escalating demands for land and service—the veneer of reciprocity was fading. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And I would have asked what time their church services started and if they baptize people and if so, how? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

After the service, and shaking hands with Reverend Tweed, and eating a fine dinner with the congregation, the women broke into two groups. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I was,” he later said, “like every other regular officer, extremely eager for service abroad as a commander of combat troops.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look through the hanging clothes—mostly dresses—and pick out the ones I think are fancy enough for the service but not too fancy. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Lacks cousins don’t remember much about the service—they figure there were some words, probably a song or two. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Sorry I couldn't attend the service, but I had urgent business on behalf of TokNation. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

After reading my winning essay, the public relations people for Casey Family Services asked me to be a presenter at their postadoption services conference and also to address a Senate reception. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She tries to call Dr. Mann later that day, but Annabelle’s phone still has no service. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I think Mother truly did appreciate the enormity of cooking three times a day for so many hungry boys and knew that our family ship would sink without her services. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He often wore a wooden cross outside his shirt, and he rarely missed Sunday church services. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

They sat through the service and listened to the Bath minister’s breathy sermon from Galatians, and when the last chords of Lillian Woodward’s postlude finished, they stood up. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Surely they've paused the service now, since we all went running after her. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then, as an afterthought, ‘Beer ... Hi, kitchen,’ he yelled, in the arrogant way Johnny noticed the young officers always called for service. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The service ended with the Kaddish, and then Reb Saunders walked slowly back up the aisle, followed by the child, who was still clinging to his father’s caftan. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The prison service provided me with a cook, Warrant Officer Swart, a tall, quiet Afrikaner who had once been a warder on Robben Island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, Dasch pushed the room service cart out into the hallway. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe I could do paint for community service on a Saturday when no one is here. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But when the service ended and we all dispersed to our tents, a funereal gloom hung over Base Camp. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

As the wagon rolled into the street, I thought how Granny would have enjoyed their preachin’ service. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She ate chocolate chip pancakes and drank mango juice from room service. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Did we not put that old book he used to read for the civil service exam inside?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

After the service a small mob, mainly moms with their kids, and of course Miss Nora, swarmed around Gran and me. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Janus. Hecate. Morpheus. They give lip service to Olympus, and yet— “That’s where Dionysus went,” I remembered. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

At the end of the service, the congregation stood, and Deborah’s mouth twisted as she fought to scream. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You and your ma—you don’t get out to service much?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t like a mosque or church, with services every week. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

As we walk, I collect business cards for escort services from sleazy guys handing them out to anyone who will take them. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The demand for labor is so great that every weekday roughly four hundred workers fly in from the mainland for construction, gardening, plumbing, and other services. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

His contraband entered the house through the service door and exited through the front door on its way to other destinations, where Jean consumed it in secret revels or sold it at exorbitant prices. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She assured her new chief of staff that they’d go over field service regulations with the new soldiers when the train started to move. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He is resting peacefully in the slave burial grounds and we made certain he had a Christian service and paid fifteen dollars for a marked grave. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

We’d just returned from Good Friday services at St. Ignatius Loyola Catholic Church, and were about to perform my favorite Biles family ritual—tie-dying eggs for our annual Easter egg hunt. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

So Dad took the leg to the local service station to see if they could weld it together. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I told her there wouldn’t be an open casket. Your dad was cremated, not like the kind of family services you’ve been to.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

This is her service to us, her honoring. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

That kind of genius status means that he gets a cushy job working in the science lab as a teacher’s assistant for his community service. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He said he was with a “research services firm.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cari, making little signs and stepping up service is cute and all, but this is bigger than that,” Aunt Tuti said. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"And remember what I said, this is only a taste. If you ever grow tired of Lady Arryn's service, present yourself at easterly Rock, and I'll pay you the rest of what I owe you." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But before he reported to his new job as a prison guard, he went to the Abwehr headquarters, and offered his services in any capacity in the United States. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He got this idea after delivering for years to one company spread out over three floors—an executive floor on top and two lower floors with sales, service, and administrative employees. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He had been within a few weeks of his eighteenth birthday, and with it all chance of enlistment, of choosing a service rather than being drafted into one, would have disappeared. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Allen finished his two years of college, the army quickly reclassified him I-A, available for military service. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I weep to think of each mother who stitches a gold star on her service flag to signify her son's ultimate sacrifice. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then she would smile at him prettily and set the coffee service down on its tray while he helped himself to the sugar. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The proclamation also stated that the union leaders, with great patriotic spirit, had reduced their demands to two points: a reform of medical services and the building of latrines in the living quarters. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Well—why didn’t you say so before?” stammered the man who had asked for service. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In 1945, for instance, AT&T began introducing a kind-of mobile phone service, derived from military radio technology, in a few metropolitan markets in the United States. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Franklin’s cautious meetings with Bonvouloir led to an addition to George Washington’s espionage organization: an overseas intelligence service. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw that the customer service person on the phone did the same. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the interest of laying a few to rest, I dedicate to each a tombstone, complete with burial service. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Orangehair walked over to her and said in a voice that was supposed to be too low for Gerald to hear, “Did you get in touch with social services yet?” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a battle-hardened bureaucratic fighter whose career in federal service had been launched with his appointment to the New Deal’s Tennessee Valley Authority. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“But you need to do those community service hours.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Because we gobble up all the nasty little insects that are gobbling up all the farmer’s crops. It helps enormously, and we ourselves don’t charge a penny for our services.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The service is good, and there’s plenty of hot and cold running ghosts. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

See, the All-City band needed a human service project, and a couple of the students came up with an amazing plan for one. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stephanie hadn’t heard from Noah, nor had he offered her his chauffeur services. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

From classmates I would hear about Holy Rollers who jumped up and down and even fell to the floor at their services. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few people grumbled because they knew once the meal was over, they were going to have to start cleaning the restaurant for service the next day. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The service ended and Granny rushed to the front of the church and began talking excitedly to the elder; I saw the elder looking at me in surprise. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Army forked over the death record of Sergeant Sam Shilsky, who died in February 1944, but the details of his service record were gone forever, lost in a fire of army personnel records. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one now outside of the War Department knew the quality and duration of his service. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

How many times did I watch Ned accept a man’s oath of service? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Everyone assumed that I would win the Beecher medal because I had organized the coat drive, and the medal usually went to the student who did the most community service. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

They were mechanics who serviced different parts of the same machine. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Good-bye, Chicago, and all your glorious cable TV, internet, and cell phone service. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Perhaps to prove her skills could be of service, she began painting an illustrated book of useful herbs. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

First there was the service man and then the policeman and then the trouble about the license. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The demonstration ended with another short prayer service and then the crowd drifted off slowly, the mourners reluctant to separate on the sorrowful day. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The service trails, of course, are worn, and there are paths slick from the forays of members of one group into the territory of another where it is believed something curious or thrilling lies. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would be told that, if he pleads guilty to a felony, he will be deemed “unfit” for jury service and automatically excluded from juries for the rest of his life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He first elicited Michel’s name and address, his length of service, and the length of time he had been on this particular route. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chandresh takes credit only for the white blooms, keeping one pinned to his lapel that he toys with distractedly throughout the service. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t supposed to be here—he was supposed to be downstairs leading the shukrani service. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“He made a show of chastising the guard for not keeping you safe. Still, the unworthy sot remains in his service.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

At Sunday night’s church service, the crowd at Shady’s place—if eight people could be called a crowd—got settled into their seats. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Most times it didn’t look like this ’less it was Sunday evening or ’less there was a service for someone that had gone and died. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

We teach them to read and write and love God, so they are ready for the universities at Paris or Bologna, and then for service in the courts of great men thereafter. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“It has, on a few occasions, gone to a couple of students who’ve done a community service project together,” he answered, scratching his forehead. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

And then suddenly, in the middle of the service, her name was being called. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

This law doesn’t apply so strictly to the service jobs I’ve held so far. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Jews read their burial services for Spinoza, meaning that he was dead as far as they were concerned; his family was run out of Spain, they ended up in Holland, I think. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the village we were asked to quickly service our AK-47S. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was a rigidly Orthodox school, with services three times a day and with European-trained rabbis, many of them in long, dark coats, all of them bearded. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t going to relegate our love to the creeping pace of the postal service. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They cried and danced, through your body went the spell that cured Lucas, and your name lent strength to the curse that took one of us from the service of our Master. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had her own medical practice until she volunteered her services during the Civil War. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In November 1942, the commander of the Southern Front turned up to present thirty-two members of the 588th with commemorative watches as a reward for their service, and medals to ten others. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I prepare myself for a Baptist service, and try to remember what makes it different from the other church services I’ve been to. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It had snowed during the service and was snowing still—a crisp and cold snow that didn’t melt as soon as it struck. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He examines the room, opening drawers and pulling out the stationery, opening the minibar, reading the contents of the room service menu, though he is not at all hungry. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not only do I tend to the complaints of the nuns, but country people and villagers pay for my services, and the poorest are granted them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The church bag had to be big enough to fit her Sunday service survival kit. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I am done with these questions, and with you. You are dismissed from my service. Leave Meereen at once and I will let you live.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ryan has already memorized Link’s entire temple service just from listening to Rabbi Gold’s recording so many times. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Axelroot even got himself a little medal of honor for heroic service, which he is very vain of and keeps in a special box in the bedroom. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And not only is Mr Farraday a most excellent employer, he is an American gentleman to whom, surely, one has a special duty to show all that is best about service in England. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I show him the new channels that I've programmed, and he gets angry because he's been paying for a year for premium services. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

In terms of civil service, you were only on probation for a year. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

No doubt, he thought, this was some hero of the warren, wounded in a great fight and now infirm, whose past services merited an honorable escort when he went out. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s the third slave to die in the Commandant’s service this year.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Ms. Sandnes received her master’s degree in social work, became a licensed counselor, and still works at The Children’s Home as the counseling services manager. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Nothing this big, this daring, or this expensive had ever been attempted by a spy service. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I applied for a job at school and was told there were none available but was also given the address of the New York State employment service. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later, stomachs grumbling, they hopped off and bustled up the alley that would take them to the service entrance behind the Imperial Marquis Hotel. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The religious services were certainly no great strain, either, since they were conducted only once a week at the Group Headquarters building and were attended by very few of the men. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I remembered as a child that they always sang this hymn at somber moments during church services, on Communion Sundays, and Good Friday. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The parents—ardent Nazis—hoped to service their nation by eliminating their child from the nation’s genetic heritage. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

No set fee was charged for their services, which might include nursing the individual, cleaning up the sickroom, washing clothes and linens, going out to buy food and medicine, and caring for other family members. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

You needed a message brought to your brother on the west side of the city after phone service was cut? The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

After the boys completed their Reich Labor Service, they reported for two years of military service, either with the Wehrmacht, as the regular German army was called, or with the SS. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then, if that wasn’t bad enough, some Sundays we’d double back to white church for a special evening service. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There are things he wants to prove to me, gifts he wants to bestow, services he wants to render, tendernesses he wants to inspire. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the drive to the prison, Walter told me that the men on death row had held a special service for him on his last night. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We shall, of course, remove ourselves, unless there be any way in which we might render service.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The nobleman introduced himself to Werfel: “Lord Ysoret Clivers, head of His Majesty’s intelligence service.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

With war approaching, the entire service was being transferred to Navy control. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was looking through some shots of my father during his military service. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Water, sewer systems, and other public services that supported the white areas of town frequently did not extend to the black areas. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Soviet players were traditionally serviced by a team of seconds, each performing an assigned task. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was closed—everything but one small service station. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t keep up with names. They send us new kids all the time. The community service program with the school is a mess,” she said. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

But mail service was erratic, which tested them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

After the service, Gram’s ashes are buried next to Grandpa’s, under an old oak tree. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

And there was a pleasure in my services, most full, most exquisite, even though sad—because he claimed these services without painful shame or damping humiliation. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Like she’s reciting something she heard on a public service announcement while watching cartoons with her idiot brother. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Once I could legally drive, I became a one-man taxi service. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rabbi wants the Zoom connection to be online and running before the service starts so no one has to fiddle with electronics during a Sabbath service. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Thanks for using Discreet Delivery service, where they get what’s coming to them, whether they know it or not! Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The service started and there was some singing and some sharing and some praying, and then the preacher started preaching. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s been going on and on like that since she first found out about our idea. Don’t freak out, but she wants us to start a youth action community service committee when school starts.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

But the man’s eyes filled with tears, and he thanked Oshiro for his service. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The initiates, who spend thirty days performing community service before they can become full members, sit side by side on a bench. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

After this memorable event, I went to the hatter’s, and the bootmaker’s, and the hosier’s, and felt rather like Mother Hubbard’s dog whose outfit required the services of so many trades. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

His address was easy to find— I Googled him and found www.shipwellconsulting.co.uk, the site where he advertises “a range of consultancy, cloud- and web-based services for business and nonprofit organizations.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Susan sat next to him at the memorial service, and when parts of a speech delivered by Sir Winston Churchill were played, she clasped her gloved hands together, tightly, and leaned against him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Collectively, the tenements, along with the one outside lavatory servicing them all, constituted yard number forty-seven, and our address, therefore, was Forty-seven Thirteenth Avenue. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d had fantasies of her winning a hundred dollars in a spitting contest and the two of us going to a nice motel in Atlanta and ordering room service with the prize money. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took her phone out of her pocket and said, “I don’t have cell service. Does anyone else?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

That marked the first Sunday I knew Uncle Willie to miss services. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the backhoes and work crews descended in 1952, there were no sewers across its 5,500 acres, no running water, little electric service, and no police or fire departments. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Meriwether Prep had adopted him as a community service project so all the students could feel good about themselves. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She called room service and ordered a glass of orange juice, pancakes, a cappuccino, and French fries. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

When I got out of the service, I didn’t remember a single true thing about myself. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I cannot accept your service, child. We only employ slaves run away from rebel owners.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day he turns eighteen he goes down to the recruiter’s office and presents himself for service. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

When no one else rushed forward to pledge service, they were dismissed with a warning to do their work and make no trouble. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“My services don’t cost anything, Miranda. Some families don’t have the money to pay a dentist. Or they could really use the money for something else.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I have dealt with many a murderer in my long service to the state, but never have I encountered the equal of this. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

For weeks preceding the walkout, citizen volunteers had been offering their services to protect the city in the event the police left their posts. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Nixon welcomed the men, thanked them for their heroic service—and couldn’t resist getting in a shot at Daniel Ellsberg. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The service ended and we filed into Sunday school. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His hair was slicked back and he wore, in lieu of his service station uniform, a baby-blue leisure suit. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Can’t say I do, but okay. Big, strong dude at your service. Thanks for the compliment, by the way.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Madam Platt could not countenance this insubordination, but neither could she insist upon service when she could not pay a farthing in wages. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t use the phone at Lorraine’s anyway because her mother doesn’t have unlimited service, and at my house my mother is a disinfectant fanatic. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Seven slash marks indicated his years of service - more than any presiding officer, including Reyna. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

People just weren’t interested in careers in domestic service anymore. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A huge percent of the wealth created in America today comes not from manufacturing, but from providing services. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He thin-slices some part of the service motion and—blink!—he just knows. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The campus was impressive for what happened within its walls: chest crackings, organ transplants, molecular imagings, genetic probes, and virtually any other medical service known in the advanced world. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

More than eight thousand mourners, including eight hundred clergy of both races, attended the service. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

From far and near, some twenty of the last had arrived to attend the funeral services, which were to take place Wednesday morning. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Is there a man in your service that you trust utterly and completely?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I don't know about you, but I work hard for my money. It's mine and I'm not tipping anybody unless they give me the kind of service I expect.” Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The next thing I know I’m in the counseling services waiting area. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Prince Dain, about to be crowned the High King, does not have time to indulge in the petty sport of pretending to take me into his service just because a callow younger brother wishes it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When your service is exclusive for Deckers, not many reviews are to be expected. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Here was a man who had “rendered a great service to his country,” in both war and peace. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Finally, a sharp right down the service road into the main thoroughfare, where by heart she boarded the bus. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The LED glowpaint smeared on Nailer’s forehead gave a dim green phosphorescent view of the service ducts that made up his world. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Aztecs required tribute in the form of military service, physical labor, crops, and manufactured products. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

There never were any real services in the church, not in our time, anyway, nor any minister. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Maybe if I do some service, I won’t have to do chess club anymore.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Until Barack started campaigning, I’d had no exposure to the orderly bustle of an Army base or the modest tract homes that housed service members with families. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She went back to the Bear Flag and organized it for service. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, father flew to Atlanta to attend the real funeral service, the one with the coffin and the crowd. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Leaving the dining-car I asked the conductor for tickets for the first service. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

As soon as he entered the station, the phone service cut out. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

By the time the service started, people were standing on the steps outside, pushing to get in. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Likely as not it was Sunday,” she laughed; “and I was running away from prayers, from the Presbyterian service, read in a spirit of gloom by my father that chills me yet to think of.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton was a warm woman with a soft voice and close-cropped hair who worked in customer service at a credit rating company. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Sugarcane plantations stretched in all directions, worked by imported slaves and native Arawak Indians who were pressed into service by Dutch and Portuguese plantation owners. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They weren’t even given national recognition for their wartime service until 1977. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I was the one who supervised the services. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned to her and said, “About time,” when the train finally creaked in, with the familiarity strangers adopt with each other after sharing in the disappointment of a public service. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“My dear, go out to service in that great boarding house!” and Mrs. March looked surprised, but not displeased. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

AT Sunday church service, Shirley Boon gets up in front of the congregation. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As the war intensified, the town post office was awash in civil service job bulletins, competing for the eyes of locals and college students alike. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The second Sunday of every month the Reverend H. H. Johnson came out from Montgomery and pastored a service at our litde church in the country. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He must only guard against inflicting serious injury on anyone who serves him and anyone he has near him in the service of his principality, as Antoninus had done. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

How many of you are going to have trouble meeting the service requirement and staying in All-City? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the service was over they had kissed each other with a holy kiss. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“We go to services now at a signs church in Flat Rock, Alabama.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Botticelli did not want to be of service. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

In union, they were combining to provide unprecedented service to humans. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Willingness to hire people with criminal records is greatest in construction or manufacturing—industries that require little customer contact—and weakest in retail trade and other service sector businesses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

So I did not allow myself to believe that I might offer my services where most I wished, but rather sought out other employment. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I will offer my services as her personal assistant. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And if that doesn’t work, Senator, we have this,” said General Hurtado, placing his service pistol on the table. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

What kind of burial he wanted if I got a body, what kind of memorial service if I didn’t. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although there was a service led by the village philosopher, Ash did not hear a word of it. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I lied, I did have service at that point. But I was supposed to surprise you, so I couldn’t really say that, you know?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“They are asleep, but we patrol the area for English troops and runaways. Me, I would rather be home with my Maria. We had just married when I was called to this service.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Henry were eating their dinner, from room service—lamb chops, bottle of burgundy, yellow rose in a bud vase. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Shanon wanted to see us before we left for Texas, so we met up with her at the child protective services office in Columbus. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

You need to feel that you are getting small-town personal service from someone who has a calling to the profession. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Halfway through the service Mary Toy got to sweating. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When Dennis Hoagland and I first met, outside the career services office of my alma mater, I thought it would be a brief affair. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given our father’s characteristic air of superiority, I secretly expected him to live in a manor house surrounded by grounds and serviced by a liveried staff. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then you go down this long service line, where they have all kinds of different foods laid out behind glass and hot lamps. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Despite my vigorous protestations, the joke is repeated twice during the breakfast service. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The worship service was about to begin at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on Sunday morning, September 15, 1963. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was astonished to see this herd grow, and wondered what signals they used to inform each other of my services. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “Reverend, missionary work is a great bargain for Belgium but it is a hell of a way to deliver the social services.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The service man was still on the floor, putting in the finals screws that held the new handle in place, when the penguin came out to the kitchen on his silent pink feet. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Only a maester of the Citadel, bound in service to Castle Black and the Night's Watch. In my order, we put aside our house names when we take our vows and don the collar." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the service, Virgil Hedgepath rose to deliver the eulogy. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Abby: Our son married a girl when he was in the service. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Although our primary water tank was down to the dregs before the Tap-Out, there was an older one on top of the hill that had been taken out of service. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Their father never let John and Roy out of his sight, for Roy had often disappeared between Sunday school and morning service and had not come back all day. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

"Brienne, I have taken many wellborn ladies into my service over the years, but never one like you. I am no battle commander." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She called Bethel Park directory services again and when she hung up she looked down at the note she had jotted on a slip of paper. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

An ash staff that had seen service as a candle-snuffer proved to be ideal. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

At last the Commander in charge of this service comes in. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie showing off the old service revolver he’d traded a filched pocket watch for, practicing on milk bottles and tin cans. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was a small port that serviced Imre, too small to have a name of its own. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After the service, as the remaining worshippers gathered outside the church, news whipsawed through the crowd that North Korean troops had crossed the 38th parallel. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Watch out for Leon too, who has a habit of following his female coworkers into service closets. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My parents were just carried out of the building in the service elevator,” he shouted at the cops. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

We sought review in the Alabama Supreme Court and won a new trial based on the trial judge's refusal to exclude people from jury service who were biased and could not be impartial. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

What sort of page could he be, having no free hands for service? The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

During that last stay in San Jose, she went on a walk, stumbled across a church service, and slipped inside. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

If she squinted, she could almost pretend they were secret service and she was the president. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Indeed, in some cases, services and experiences have replaced objects as the true symbols of high status. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

We can’t call emergency services and we have to paddle back in the kayak with his nerves severed. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

After the service, my parents and Heather decided not to stay for the party already starting in the reception hall. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Strides were made in private housing, with a black real estate agent given access for the first time to multilisting services. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Steam was practically blowing out of Mom’s ears by the time the service ended with a rousing rendition of Bette Midler’s “Wind Beneath My Wings.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There dwelt the few women that had been permitted to remain in Minas Tirith, since they were skilled in healing or in the service of the healers. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He’d been in the army for nineteen months and had less than five months of service left to fulfill his two-year military commitment. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

They help find the families schools, jobs, and access to social services. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“At the end of the hall, you’ll follow the others through the service exit. It’s a quick sprint to the back gate.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We usually honored a luminary in public service and a client. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I begin to see that you put me in the queen’s service not for my own benefit,” I said, “but to be your spy.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

At The Maids, a housecleaning service, I am given something called the “Accutrac personality test,” which warns at the beginning that “Accutrac has multiple measures which detect attempts to distort or ‘psych out’ the questionnaire.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they had a solution for that too: a shuttle service. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kleptocracies with little public support run the risk of being overthrown, either by downtrodden commoners or by upstart would-be replacement kleptocrats seeking public support by promising a higher ratio of services rendered to fruits stolen. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She enjoyed her work, which consisted chiefly in running and servicing a powerful but tricky electric motor. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When I was about ten years old, I was outside of our church with my friends, one of whom had brought a visiting relative to the service. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Inquiry of the telephone company revealed that a “Mrs. Small” had called and requested that the service for that number be disconnected, “for vacation.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aileen pulled rubber gloves from her purse, snapped them over her hands, and ducked below the service window in the basement hallway to the small metal door by the dishwashing room. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

After a long service his body was placed in a new tomb in the old crypt. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

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

Lynn told me they host monthly debates here, for entertainment, and also hold religious services here once a week. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy stays with Ms. Rosalie for the rest of the service and later helps her when the family follows the casket out. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He’s about to speak again, but I interrupt him in the middle of his bit about twenty-four-hour concierge service. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Root gave much of the credit for her success to William, noting that she had both “the services of her distinguished husband” and his “secret methods of solving ciphers.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

To write about someone is so personal, even in a world with fire-breathing children and flying dragon services, and a lot of the good stuff between me and Hudson is there. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

During the trial, the appointed defense lawyer presented no evidence about Herbert’s background, his military service, his trauma from the war, his relationship with the victim, his obsession with the girlfriend—nothing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I requested that the prison service supply me with sixteen 44-gallon oil drums that I had them slice in half. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uniformed maids entered rooms carrying tea services on silver trays. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The letter gave each of us two weeks or less to drop these jobs and report to the Albany Training Academy, where we would enter state service as correction-officer recruits. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I met another service member who’d had a leg amputated and asked me a lot of questions about the Secret Service. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In the group given cash and other services as well as medicine, 100 percent recovered. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He is now spearheading a drive to outsource low-end Japanese jobs to Japanese-speaking call centers and service providers in China. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

After the service we walk back through quiet streets. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Jones’s service to the Confederacy had cost him a great deal. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The town was much smaller than Ensenada, but it had a few hotels, stores, and service stations. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

But, because the offer was obviously and tactlessly for a service to be rendered, I had no choice except to cut him off there. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

This is the friendliest and best-paying maid service I have encountered—$6.65 an hour, though as a punishment this will drop to $6 for two weeks if I fail to show up for a day. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sunday afternoon Mr. Lapham was not only going to the second service, as usual, but there was to be a meeting of the deacons, a cold supper afterward, and a prayer service at the pastor’s. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sula acknowledged none of their attempts at counter-conjure or their gossip and seemed to need the services of nobody. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I realized I had forgotten there was always a charge for such services. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you go back and read the basic economics textbooks, they will tell you: Goods are traded, but services are consumed and produced in the same place. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Blacks saw Bacon Street as just another instance of being herded into ghettos—overcrowded, isolated from the rest of the city, and lacking in public services. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was Saturday— the Sabbath—and it was as though we were there to attend services. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, for two days, she is on a forest service road. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The uniformed cops inside the apartment ignored us, coming and going through the kitchen and using the service elevator, taking cartons of foodstuffs with them. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

She called her phone’s billing service and arranged payment with the Visa number. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow we’ll go to services as a family. Then I’m taking the three of you out. Mom needs a break.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t look much like military issue, but it has seen active service and has the bloodstains to prove it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

No other officer, in my entire state service, would ever ask me a question about my past, whether employment or education; the lack of curiosity surprised and relieved me. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember that at the end of service, the congregation took up a collection for Mrs. Duncan. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was in the service, he had been home on leave, and he had just gone back. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got to a point where I could do a basic service on a car by myself, and often I did. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Goodness knows what the world is coming to when park rangers carry service revolvers. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He hiked taxes and cut services to raise funds for the conflict to come. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

They represented social service agencies in the United States and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baaz Mtombé’s Night Zoo was rumored to hold over a hundred exotic species within its confines; in her eleven years of contracted service to it, Koffi had never bothered to count. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He attended all services in the Episcopal church, helped with the flowers and leaves at feast times, and spent many hours with the young and curly-haired clergyman, Mr. Rolf. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Alice called down to the front desk and asked them to ignore our maid service for now. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Please, try to have faith. I am here in your service, to guide and protect you,” she said. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I know it looks hard,” said Elisha, “from the outside, especially when you young. But you believe me, boy, you can’t find no greater joy than you find in the service of the Lord.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

But the true measure of upper class today is in the personal services indulged in. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I did not pretend to have any real service, of course, but I would sit and read something from the Bible. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the heat of the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kisevalter was told bluntly that the CIA "does not communicate with an enemy intelligence service." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Next to Pop Pop, a small woman—half his size, covered in an oversized white hat, white blazer, Pop is back there flirting with her for the whole service. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

How could she miss her first Easter service here in the place where everything had really happened? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nixon and his wife, Pat, attended the White House church services with 125 guests, their names carefully listed in Appendix A in the Daily Diary. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Hathaway's job was to keep the CIA from being penetrated by moles from rival spy services—above all, the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The mysterious decanter had been found outside the service door to the del Valle house on the same day and at the same time that the roast pig was delivered. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But man, who has but two legs, was never made to perform the service of four footed beasts. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, some parents grew angry when the Hitler Youth purposely disrupted Sunday services by playing their trumpets loudly outside the church. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The counselor talked about their services and asked questions about my daily routine. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

After all, I still have before me many more years of service I am required to give. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

They ran into the hallway and pressed the button for the service elevator. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Before the British Empire there were no railroads or postal services in India, and Africa was full of tribal warfare, with spears, and had no proper clothing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, this? Corporal Reynolds got me this uniform and arranged for me to sneak in here with the garbage-removal service.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It also means service will be extra long ’cause black folk just love celebrating that man. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Popper saw that for all his words of agreement, the service man had no intention of putting on an inside handle. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Since the Presbyterians weren’t involved, there was no suspense at our preachin’ service. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I took out my cell phone, prepared to call someone, anyone, so I’d have a witness, but I wasn’t getting service. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

His department is getting dozens of phone calls from magazines, and wire services, and TV producers. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father took hold of a gear and reached up for another handhold in the next service panel. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

If other people there took comfort from the service, Alex couldn’t tell. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The truck eased into Red Williams’ service station. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, you offer a babysitting service for visiting tourists?” he asked. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sundays after services, seemed like half the church would come by for supper. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Sept. 5, with visitation for an hour before the service. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She waits next door at Gloria’s for the smuggler to call Rosa Amalia, who has just gotten hooked up to phone service. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Table service allowed women to avoid sitting on a bar stool or placing a foot up on a brass rail. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“First Lady came to me yesterday after service, said her and Pastor’s grandchildren been listening to some ol’ garbage that Brianna recorded,” Grandma says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Of course this is exactly when service drops out on me. Of course!” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He took factory jobs and minor civil service positions and eventually became a bouncer in a bar on Long Island, which was his principal occupation for much of his adult years. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Here’s the order of events on the day of the funeral: One: Visitation at the funeral home for an hour before the funeral service. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Another bill, to levy penalizing fines against any church holding nonsegregated services, was, he con-tended, in flagrant contradiction to the First Amendment of the Constitution. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the service, Bodega’s sister had asked the managers of a minimarket on the comer of 109th and Madison to let the public view Bodega’s body there. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The Mothers of the Church, old ladies with white lace disks pinned to their thinning hair, had a service all their own. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I ... I am in your service.. .Cinder made a placating gesture. “You are a tool in my hand,” the shadowed man interrupted gently. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Before she left, were bridesmaids banished from church services because their dresses had spaghetti straps? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The elevator stops on the second floor and he bursts out, running down the stairs, losing cell service as he does so. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I gave thirty-five years' service to Lord Darlington; one would surely not be unjustified in claiming that during those years, one was, in the truest terms, 'attached to a distinguished household'. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Pastor Curtis, who had on Sunday proclaimed the Apollo mission an ungodly endeavor, said he’d be taking Wednesday morning prayer service off so he wouldn’t miss the liftoff. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Your term of service is over and the time of dissolution has come. I expected it, but—Well, the Master’s will be done!” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

When a serious felony case went to trial in a county like Monroe County, which was 40 percent black, it was not uncommon for prosecutors to exclude all African Americans from jury service. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There he met with other politicians, a group of military men, and gringos sent by their intelligence service to map a strategy for bringing down the new government: economic destabilization, as they called their sabotage. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such an alliance would create a family connection that would demand loyalty and service. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Or maybe, like, a customer service call to rate my satisfaction. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He bought other service stations and at one point owned six of them. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Everybody who wanted to go to services had to go to the mainland. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some agricultural crops and many wild plants are partly or wholly dependent on the services of the native pollinating insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Mostly I stay in the house. I go to services. I read and play the organ for Mrs. Cobb in the afternoons.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Proserpine was willing to do Venus a service, and Psyche, greatly encouraged, bore back the box, returning far more quickly than she had gone down. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Experts from every conceivable corner of the U.S. government were at their service. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“You would do best to walk a middle course. Let men earn your trust with leal service ... but when they do, be generous and openhearted.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He leaned toward them and said, “In object-oriented programming, discrete software objects interfaced more freely, in a system of corporate service provision that mirrored the emergent structures of late capitalism.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So long as Mr. Train speaks nobly for the woman,” Anthony wrote, “why should we repudiate his services?” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Eleven years of service with Mama had taught her that. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In April Ulbrickson had all but crowed to both national wire services that this all-sophomore crew was great—“potentially the greatest crew I have coached,” he’d said, in front of the whole world. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Duncan, a little woman with a bird face, started the service. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dimple would say one thing for these ridiculously expensive places: The service was impeccable. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Takes all the mystery out of food service. When will my waiter appear? When will I get the check?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a Sunday service, the first train isn’t for half an hour, so there’s nothing to do but sit there on a bench, going round and round, from disbelief to desperation and back again. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few boats would be requisitioned from the harbor and pressed into service, and in the morning everyone would go. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She’s the business end of Dad’s handyman service, and since Dad has an aversion to paperwork, things would be completely disorganized without her. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

But you would be doing a greater service if you were to let me know privately. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ashley shouldn’t have been mingling with those tough teens at Lake Mag,” Mrs. Merritt grumbled, “and this boy needs services he isn’t getting.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

And the entire club saw the other other bad news coming from a mile away: when the semester was up, Celia would be back, and she’d be doing community service. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

When I heard this story, I made the only good decision I had made for months: I enrolled in the university counseling service. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I was going to start a lawn- mower rental service. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around them hovered an atmosphere of still passion, of devastating service, of unpitying self-denial. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father walks over and picks up a room service book next to a Travel & Leisure magazine. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we take a car service—a black town car from JP Transportation. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They’d hold two services at the same time, one in the big church upstairs and one downstairs, that’s how crowded it was. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until now she had been telling herself that the phone might have been out of service, but this day she checked with the phone company. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He was as miserably isolated now as he had been when the service began—more isolated by reason of his unreplenished emptiness, his dead satiety. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then there are the times when one of the deacons makes an announcement at the end of service: “We need a few strong men to help carry the chairs.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Momly and Uncle Tony never went to church, but when my mother made the arrangements for me and Maddy to live with them, it was under the condition that we wouldn't miss a service. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z