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

Our hope is that by a set of ten simple, straightforward laws, we can avoid the pitfalls of human fallibility. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

If he had had the use of his claws he could have dragged it down easily, but with the leather foot covers it was not so simple. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her simple words don't match the sharp intelligence of her eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She wore her pink sweater and a white blouse and a simple cotton skirt. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The simple truth was that I hated him because he had a ruthless temper. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sure, the words were simple, but it was happening. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

You can also discover how they broke each type of encryption, from the simplest commercial code systems all the way to Enigma. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She was pleased that with one simple word she had answered two very important questions. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry,” I said, laughing, “it’s quite simple really. But Maxim would tease me, and I’ve promised to give him the surprise of his life.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

My footwork was simple, my movements fluid but uninspired. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“My app is so simple even boys can figure it out.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It seemed to bring about an ease in our relationship, it made everything more simple. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that he would not wake up some time later, after death, and sigh at how simple and foolish his dream had been. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The sword must lie buried with Martin. You would have little use for the dusty bones of a bygone hero. A simple deduction, even for one as old as I am.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Nothing is as simple as it used to be. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My plan was simple: no stalling, no changing the subject. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“He just thought it was a little simple, he was very sweet about it.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I search my brain for an answer to Dr. Shabani's simple and complicated question. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In her experience, when someone tried to do something for her, it came from either pity or distrust, but this simple gesture felt like what it was: a small kindness, with no strings attached. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A simple routine, true, established in a short few days, and yet...? Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a simple white T-shirt and jeans, with a bow and quiver strapped to his back. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s a simple way of discovering the last spell a wand performed, elf, did you know that?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“How much would you charge for a simple funeral?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, I’d picked up on the simple, encouraging correlation between how long I practiced and how much I achieved. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My healing methods are simple, the tools of my new profession few. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Grace Lutheran is different from any place of worship I’ve ever seen: a simple white building with a steeple, Gothic arched windows, oak pews, and a spare altar. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, I had been so pleased to have my voice back that I hadn’t realized that I was still able to speak only in simple, baby sentences, as if I were three years old. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Biking was simple, inexpensive, paperwork-free, and different, something that set them apart, not that they needed anything more. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cinna does my hair in my simple trademark braid down my back. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Even Hades was present, sitting on a simple stone guest chair at the foot of the hearth. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I look at the lines fanning out from her eyes, the simple knot she has pulled her hair into, and the hastily placed clip that holds it together. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Old Man Rawlins was a bit of a story. See, he was never given a choice in the matter. He had to box, plain and simple.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There was no clutter and contortion, no sense of always being under the shadow of something high and gloomy, as in Erhenrang; everything was simple, grandly conceived, and orderly. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I know that I'm eating meat bits that escape this tragically simple procedure, but the principle of my decision is intact, even if the reality is compromised. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

A resort place on the beach where we could live simple. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

One thing's for sure, destroying those supplies is not going to be as simple as it looks. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Many more vignettes illustrating this and other simple logical errors might be cited, but the point is clear enough: both innumeracy and defective logic provide a fertile soil for the growth of pseudoscience. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the answer comes, I almost laugh at myself at how simple it is—and yet a week ago, I would never have considered such a thing. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“It was simple. Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I learned about their tawdry dreams, their simple hopes, their home lives, their fear of feeling anything deeply, their sex problems, their husbands. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

To this he had a simple answer: “That, in fact, is exactly what it was . . . The only way in which a broad program could be launched rapidly and on an adequate scale.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A sharpness that finally manifested itself in a simple, stilted shrug. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

After five years, the government of national unity would become a simple majority-rule government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After staging a false “burial at sea” to throw the press off the trail, Booth’s body was buried in a simple crate in an unmarked grave at the Old Arsenal Penitentiary. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She isn’t twenty-one. Plain and simple. She admitted as much to witnesses.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The unwritten rule that governed this process was simple: black submission to white rule in exchange for freedom—or at least the possibility of freedom—someday. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like a simple case to me. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t even pull off the simplest stuff in the “Magic Tricks for Beginners” playset I got for Christmas that one time. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“It would be a simple job,” he said. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

A question like "How big is Faerie?" does not admit of a simple answer. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The loveliest scenes, he found, were comprised of the simplest, most natural juxtapositions of native plants. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Remarkable, that his simple act of kindness triggered a relief from the numbness. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“They are paper and clockwork wrapped up in fairly simple charms. You could do the same with a bit of study.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The disabling methods were, as always, simple—a bullet in the radiator, and the engine left running until it seized up. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At its heart lies one supreme government: the Lutheran hymn-chorale, with its simple, memorable tunes for the congregation - another of the central pillars of Pietist doctrine. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

That issue, though, is really secondary to the simple fact that the kids weren’t watching the letters because they were watching Oscar. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead he wore a simple robe of grey and blue. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

All I ask in return, well, it is a simple thing. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Just in case,” she said, slipping in their simple food of rice wrapped up in leaves and salted boiled eggs. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t we have a cheerful, simple morality here in Western Civilization: expect perfection, and revile the missed mark! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even simple questions were not to be answered lightly in this place. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Changing the channel, she says with simple disdain, ‘Cheap people.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I admired her lack of compunction, the courage of her bad manners, the energy of simple rage. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Arthur leans against me and we both smile, super simple. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Every small effort at hygiene was magnified by hours of labor spent procuring the simplest elements: water, heat, anything that might pass for disinfectant. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world would be a simpler place to understand if this dictum of Clause- witz’s were true. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The simple truth is that the definition of Whig history has got tighter and tighter year by year. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

For a moment, it’s like I’m looking at a different person, sitting in Tobias’s skin, one whose life is not as simple as I thought. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I apply it to the Commander, but it seems too simple for him, too crude. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I think I still prefer surgery. And in this case especially, with this, uh . . . background, I'm not so sure that I don't believe in the effectiveness of simple prayer." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fiona gave the girls two simple dresses, one of blue calico and the other of brown flannel. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the whole, they preferred systems that were simple to memorize. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There was a small grocery store nearby where my father, before his arrest, had maintained a simple charge account. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

An embroidered flower, a simple daisy, sewn between the cups of her bra. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Of course there were a lot of simple explanations. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I had uttered those words to Mr. Pirzada, two simple words I had tried but failed to tell him for weeks, had said only in my prayers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Rhythm: the rhyme is very simple with 8 beats in each line. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It was easy to get an Illinois law license in 1868, and after several months, Guiteau learned enough to pass the simple oral examination. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He could, of course; the spreader was simple to operate. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Jasmine assumed simple duties around the household and took over her mother’s position when Felice’s heart seized and she fell mute and paralyzed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Most of all, she marveled at and exulted in the simple and undeniable fact that he seemed to care for her just as she was, good or bad. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Not a grand speech, but the simple declaration I've waited days to deliver. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Let us consider the distinctive features of chiefdoms, very different from modern European and American states and, at the same time, from bands and simple tribal societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It may seem silly to draw a picture, but it’s the simple things that pave the road for the rest of it.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The main difference between Haydn’s style and Mozart’s is really quite simple: if you can instantly remember the tune, it’s by Mozart. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Yes, it was still pretty much at the end of nowhere, but it had the things he wanted in a hometown—it was simple, friendly, God-fearing, patriotic. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The actual nature of the genetic code, it turns out, is astoundingly simple: there’s just one molecule that carries our hereditary information and just one code. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And after a whole Sunday of that—you didn't miss much—the simple ding-dong of the doorbell this morning basically sounded like disco to me. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It sounded so simple, but it was what C.P. needed to hear. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He sat on a simple throne of solid platinum. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Using short patterns from the song is a simple way to create vocal or rhythmic ostinati. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She looked away at this point, probably because her answer would have been, “What’re you, simple?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They always surprised him in the simplest ways. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It showed that a person’s decision making is impinged by something as simple as a modest memory task. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Not strong enough, like Pilate, nor simple enough, like Reba, to make up her life as they had. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helm established a simple system for receiving new patients and having the dead carted away for burial. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Yet the handiwork—the mounting of the seat on the handlebars—is ridiculously simple. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was afraid, plain and simple, just as she had been afraid to face her powerful feelings for Lio. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gingerly, with one hand, she tapped out a simple, slow melody on the higher keys. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Beethoven takes a relatively simple tune and builds from it a giant tapestry of ideas and musical meanderings. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Lights dim, and a youthful figure wearing a simple dress and horn-rimmed glasses takes center stage. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

They had found many of their simple stone tools but, at that time, none of their bones had been discovered. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The answer was simple enough: I used another approach. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They have only a few notes, small vocal ranges, no fancy ornaments, and simple words. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

That seems simple enough, and perhaps it can be done, but not by me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rummaged through the pile and handed Melissa a simple pair of white sandals. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Obviously, too, part of the reason for states’ triumphs over simpler entities when the two collide is that states usually enjoy an advantage of weaponry and other technology, and a large numerical advantage in population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“A few simple adjustments . . .” I had no qualms about what I was about to do. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

A simple request that suddenly feels like I’ve been charged with a sacred duty. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

How simple, and amazing really, that no one in France lives without fear, without suspicion. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The haunting melody, with its simple drone, still echoes among the rough wooden benches and tables. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

On most it was something simple, like fever or influenza, and the final line on each tag had a date and then read: Met her Father in Heaven. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me—The simple news that Nature told—With tender Majesty. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The simple answer to this might be that the members of the Royal Society were familiar with Bacon’s use of the word in Latin. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was simple and, since both Helmholtz and the Savage were dreadfully pained by the shattering and defilement of a favourite poetic crystal, extremely effective. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

My style is too precise for a simple street beggar. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Lynn could take a simple, everyday object like a box of Kleenex and use it to prove how amazing the world is. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun thinks of the simple greatness of the canoe, of the advantages of moving quietly, of listening carefully. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

My mother left: and I brooded upon the fact that I had not been able to meet her simple challenge. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were rich for all their Quaker adherence to the simple life. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine if we could eat every meal knowing these few simple things: What it is we’re eating. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The industrial food chain breaks all food down into a few simple elements. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, sir,” Polly said, realizing he was not as simple as he looked. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was uncertain of the true reason, so I offered the simplest explanation. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The paradigm was simple enough to make their behavior confounding: Good/Bad. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

From these days I date my love of the veld, of open spaces, the simple beauties of nature, the clean line of the horizon. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He solved problems and explained them step by step, in simple words. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It came as a new revelation to me: the simple ability to enjoy the pleasures of one’s home, to relax and feel at ease. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a small meal waiting for them—simple fare but exquisite for being fresh. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Anything besides a simple no, which would be an honest answer, but he doesn't deserve an honest answer from me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And then, simple as that, we were free to escape to Twig’s place. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Ask a simple question, get a lot of yappin’,” Bull growled. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above all else, my eyes rested on the three simple huts where I had enjoyed my mother’s love and protection. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The columns were okay, but I still thought we could’a made a simpler foundation. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Getting through the portrait hole was simple; as he approached it, Ginny and Dean came through it, and Harry was able to slip between them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Though he continued to speak Greek to his parents, Milton never succeeded in writing it, and as he got older he began to forget what even the simplest words meant. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“The path down to the double rock pillar chamber is simple. When you reach the four forks in the paths and crawl spaces and have to make a choice, remember: right, right, left, left.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

If anything, her devotion transformed simple anger into righteous wrath. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I thought to myself, well, either the chap's been lying his head off, or - then it occurred to me, there's one simple explanation.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had asked, Would it scar? with the simple blinking fear of a fourteen-year-old. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. I just kept it simple stupid. K, I, S, S.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In an unassuming storeroom filled with dropcloths and pallets and crates, behind a sheet of plywood, the mineralogist reveals a simple combination safe that the assistant director opens rather easily. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The moves came quickly, just like in the club—a simple and beautiful strut, ancient but casual, like walking down the street. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

But simple luck is the random birthright of the hapless. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Gulliver’s noises were harmless and simple—squeaks when he was hungry, chirps when he was happy. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Round, simple, whole as the peal of a bell. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Hemme!” the Chancellor snapped.Then he turned to me, “I’m afraid proof of mastery requires more than a simple sympathetic binding.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The thing was sleek and simple in design and far too specific to occur by coincidence in two people’s dreams, no matter that they lay side by side, touching. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Finally, he decided to paint a simple bar of gold. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She seems gratified that a simple science lesson has turned unexpectedly passionate. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“I don’t understand it. What can there be in a simple little story like that to make people praise it so?” she said, quite bewildered. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still others chalked them up to simple paranoia. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Separating oxygen from the atmosphere is difficult and time-consuming, but adding it is as simple as opening a valve. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As usual, the fence was not charged and it was simple to slip into the woods and retrieve my bow and arrows. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

At one point, his calculations were effectively held up for a year while he waited for the university to provide him with a simple adding machine. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They had worked hard to eradicate customs that had begun to corrupt their society, banning even seemingly benign diversions such as a gaming machine, a simple gambling device that spit out candy to its winners. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Many lives could be saved if such simple measures are taken.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It would be simple, she thought, just like sending a man into orbit around Earth, just like putting a man on the Moon. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature may, after all, be entirely approachable,” Thomas Morgan, the influential geneticist, wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I see you are packed and ready. Excellent! The plan, as Harry has told you, is a simple one,” said Dedalus, pulling an immense pocket watch out of his waistcoat and examining it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Interrupting her harangue, I asserted that the simplest form for any regular polymeric molecule was a helix. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It was a simple case of a change of expectation. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever he was, whether a demon in disguise or just a simple goatherd, it didn’t matter. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

For two genes on the same chromosome, the same principle applied: there was no simple way to separate the forked-bristle gene from the coat-color gene. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

By following simple rules like these, people solved the omnivore’s dilemma. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s very simple: I trust the Salatins more than I trust the Wal-Mart. And I like the idea of keeping my money right here in town.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The gist of it was a simple, bold assertion—the University of Washington’s eight-oared crew was going to win gold at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Her voice trailed, dipped and bowed; she gave a chord to the simplest words. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Some of us started believing our own tale. That it might be healing water, hallowed ground. But it was just water and dirt, plain and simple.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

To separate the facts from the hearsay contained in the bureau’s case files, White settled upon a simple but elegant approach: he would methodically try to corroborate each suspect’s alibi. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She tried not to envy that Sparrow’s were—or that her gift was such a simple and beautiful one, while her own was neither. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The white man has perverted the simple message of love that the Prophet Jesus lived and taught when He walked upon this earth.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a simple blade of grass and whipped the snake on the back, leaving it paralyzed, he then grabbed it by the head and snapped its spine. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

After supper I explained to my mother and father how simple it was. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It rises perhaps twelve meters and then unfolds as if by magic into a simple T. A high house on the edge of the sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The melody is very simple, containing only four pitches and a fair amount of repetition. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Judging music sounds like the simplest of tasks. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“But a simple cry of ‘dinner!’ would do nicely. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

And if even the people who are familiar with the dictum don’t know what it means, how could the world be “simpler” if it were true? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“So simple...so brilliant...he cut it off himself?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Snape put them all into pairs and set them to mixing up a simple potion to cure boils. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind, and as we drove away Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

How could they have imagined that a silent, determined team of Americans, thousands of miles away in the peaceful countryside near Washington, might pick up on this simple error? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The idea was simple: Christianity depended on belief in a spiritual world beyond the material world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was actually a pretty simple day, but still one of the best I've ever had, and I bet Jazz would say the same thing. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“True. The simple fruits of the earth. No. You needn’t bring any, William.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The simplest one-celled organism is a far more complex machine than the finest pocket watch. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know what it’s like, to have modest, simple wishes, and then have even those taken away from you. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Not expecting even this simple trick from Sam, Gollum fell over with Sam on top, and he received the weight of the sturdy hobbit in his stomach. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Their fate comes down to one simple word: “Charge!” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He hoped it would be a simple conversation, but there were layers to this case, political hurdles, just below the surface. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Every time I asked her the simplest of tax questions, for example, she could turn the conversation around and make it seem as if I were too cheap to pay for her legal advice. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first we didn't talk much, just simple stuff about class, and I apologized for not being around, for being an absent partner. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mom heaved the dramatic sigh of a mother from an Indian movie whose daughter desires to marry a simple peasant instead of the rich, suitable suitor. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

And the translation of a boy screaming “I hate you. I hate you” to his father who cannot hear him would be simple for such a God. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hard work, but I lose myself in the simple rhythm of digging a hole and planting a seed on repeat. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Or at least partly innocent—things with Mrs. Sharpe were never simple. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of the good old days when life in the Khumbu was so much simpler and more picturesque. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

As the sun rises, casting fresh, full light through the windshield, I sigh with the simple relief that comes along with daytime. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one devised this grammar, and no one wrote down its rules, but they came to be generally understood for the simple reason that they were based on the paradigm case of geographical discovery. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

To them as to me, these simple privileges would be a miracle. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since our machinist needed at least three days merely to turn out the more simple phosphorus atoms, I went back to Clare after lunch to hammer out the final draft of my genetics manuscript. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

So I’m going to make, it very simple.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Any familiar song can be used to teach two parts, such as taking a simple melody and adding a vocal ostinato. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

From there it is quite simple to get into the graveyard of the church, thence into the church itself, and into the tower. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

He had a simple one-story house with a small cellar used to store coal for cooking and heating, and potatoes, the main staple of their diet. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

If he wanted to, he could now return to the oasis, go back to Fatima, and live his life as a simple shepherd. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The simplest way to do that is to allow the kid or calf to start suckling, but drive it away once the milk starts flowing. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it was as simple as Justin’s wave, or Sarah’s smile, or the way Mrs. Turton moved her hands in sync with the kids. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

One week I faked an entire dream journal, making my dreams sound bland and simple, the way a normal person’s should be. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Children’s clapping games and rock passing games provide very simple but accessible examples of polyrhythmic learning. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It looks more like one of those simple huts poor people live in. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when they promise something simple, they've got to tart it up—the meatloaf has been poached in seawater, or there are figs in the tuna salad. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The tactics are simple: find the enemy, fight him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was becalmed in a magnificent adolescence, more and more impenetrable to formality, more and more indifferent to malice and suspicion, happy in her own world of simple realities. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Whilst he was talking, it would’ve been real simple to hear the bees and fall ’sleep but I ’membered something Pap had said once. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

On November 15, Will Rogers neatly and characteristically summed up the American attitude toward the prospect of a second French-German conflict with a simple, homespun image. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The theory was a good scientific theory, in the sense described in Chapter 1: it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s very simple,” said the man in the yellow suit. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose even a simple slogan can be twisted into whatever shape we want, like a balloon animal—we can even make it loop back around on itself, becoming a noose. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

If you chose the simpler ones, you were right: I will start dinner after the guests arrive. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

While a simple brute could never have prevailed over his men the way Lynds did, brute force was certainly indispensable to his rule. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She just got back,” the doorman tells Gogol with a wink as he walks past, and his heart leaps, unburdened of its malaise, grateful for her simple act of returning to him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It looked surprisingly simple—no running lights, computer screens, or whirring gizmos—and indeed, considering its purpose, the entire room seemed simple. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had to start at the top and work his way down, and with sympathetic friends in Washington, losing money was no simple matter. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I like to look up a troublesome, shameful thing and then say, “Oh, is that all ?” The simple explanation makes it less scary to go home after yelling at your mother and father. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have told them that if I tell the simple truth, it doesn’t mean that I am anti-Semitic; it means merely that I am anti-exploitation. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sticks, shadows, reflections in wells, the position of the Sun—of what possible importance could such simple everyday matters be? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just a simple little party with a circus afterward for her darlings—her jewels. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It sounds simple, but the whole procedure took double the time expected, clocking in at more than twelve hours. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

In time, staying there seemed far simpler than moving once again to another, unknown place. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

No fake hair, no thick makeup, just my clean, simple face and my bun. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The girl in charge opened her mouth, but an older boy stepped up and leaned the rake in his hands against the simple fence surrounding the garden. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Underneath he was wearing a simple white shirt and a pair of rather disreputable looking pants held up by a piece of frayed rope. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Getting the voltage right was a simple matter of adding resistors, which my electronics kit has in abundance. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

To house construction workers while the road was going in, Yutan purchased three junked buses, outfitted each with bunks and a simple barrel stove, and skidded them into the wilderness behind a D-9 Caterpillar. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so different from the simple markets in Kabul that Fadi couldn’t help but become distracted by the amazing array of stores, in particular the shop selling electronic gadgets. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The cause was heart disease, but the talk in Jableh was that it was simple heartache. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“The zodiac is more like a diagram that has to do with stars and planets and whatnot,” said Reynie, trying to make it simple. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even the simplest decisions seemed wrought with impossibly high stakes. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But a rousing of the stellar fires in N49 is a simpler hypothesis: we are sure there are such things as supernovae. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This simple gesture acknowledged her authority and the sacrifices she’d made. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The room was plainly furnished with simple wooden furniture; in addition to the small bed there was a wardrobe beside the door, and beneath the casement window was a cushioned bench. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat at the head of the table in her wooden and wicker wheelchair, smiling a lopsided, almost simple smile. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After peace was declared, however, William dared to put a short, simple cipher at the end of one of his letters. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Her class ended at eight, but I wanted to see the room where—not so long ago—I had struggled over simple reading and writing and learned to count change of a dollar. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

To say that it was unfair that Suzanne got sick and died at twenty-six seems too simple a thing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

This was not as simple as it sounds. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The layout was simple: The dock was divided into zones, just like a parking lot. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The story at the Albemarle was simple, it told itself, really: suicidal Henry, struggle for the gun, leaving me wounded and him dead. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I wonder what Hamlet, the philosopher and man of reason, would have made of the nuns’ simple faith that they consume Christ’s true body. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Even something small and simple, like a phosphorus brooch. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It sounds as it always does, simple, impossible, absurd. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

This is what Hoagland meant when he promised the assignment would be simple, that I’d just have to lurk close enough and witness the play of the story as we already knew it. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, absent from Papin’s design was a simple device employed by Savery: the use of a spray of water over the cylinder to cool it in order to speed the condensation of the steam. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“It’s a little on the simple side, but that means we can add our own touches. Like it was custom made.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It looks so simple, and he appears to be a clean guy. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing is as simple as it used to be. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Consumers, in the simplest and most direct manner imaginable, had been asked for their reaction, and they had said they didn’t much like the old Coke but they very much liked the new Coke. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

There was no question whatever about his being simple. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had always been a man of simple tastes. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The problem was a simple one, and the range of possible answers was limited. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Let’s work through a simple text in which the author makes it easy. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Last of all he removed the simple iron wheel from around his neck and laid it on the nightstand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This was simple enough, but did not make any definite predictions. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a simple, buoying faith that if you stuck to your principles, things would work out. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“You’re both wrong. It’s starvation, pure and simple,” comes another explanation. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Prior to the trial, at which Andrews pleaded innocent by reason of insanity, the psychiatric staff of the Menninger Clinic conducted an exhaustive examination of the accused; this produced a diagnosis of “schizophrenia, simple type.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Asking for help was a simple con job, but he hadn’t liked the idea of pleading guilty. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The powerjack was heavier than it looked, but its controls were simple. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Marvin Edwards, the newly installed superintendent of the Dallas schools who had come from Topeka, Kansas, arrived at a simple conclusion based on the obvious proof in front of him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is not so simple, young one. Many of them have died out. There were wars between many races; few survived.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We leave the door to the camel car wide open, but it’s clear a simple airing out won’t be sufficient. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“We can find your brother and break him out. You can be our eyes and ears in Blackcliff. A simple exchange.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Like most ceremonies, its origins were simple but pomp and color were added each year. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She sent me to fetch those Arabica beans! Me, the hero of Trenton and Germantown reduced to a simple errand boy. What has the world come to?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

These early equation-laws were extremely good at expressing simple relationships, but equations have limitations—their constancy, which prevented them from being universal laws. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The most radical shift of late in the conventional wisdom on parenting has been provoked by one simple question: how much do parents really matter? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Trolls generally converse in grunts that appear to constitute a crude language, though some have been known to understand and even to speak a few simple human words. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

To create a simple keyword cipher, you first write out the alphabet. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Here in America, in this day, the simple act of whites receiving a Negro had to be a night thing and its aura of uneasiness had to be countered by gallows humor. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then after a while he came up with a fiendishly simple idea. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“It was a perfectly simple question that I asked you, Mademoiselle. I will repeat it. Are you very much distressed that a crime should have been committed on this train?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If it did”—Catherine said between strokes—’’life might be much simpler.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It would have been simple to take a key, leave a note on the desk saying that I had done so, and open one of the little houses. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I told Tommy about what had happened with Madame in the dorm, he came up with a fairly simple explanation. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The concept of death is simple: it is when a living thing no longer entertains experience. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents seemed to me piously simple—like the nuns I remembered—unwilling to entertain intellectual challenges. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were simple white metal boxes on wheels, with awnings and serving counters. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“A simple task,” began the Humbug, suddenly wishing he were somewhere else, “for a brave lad with a stout heart, a steadfast dog, and a serviceable small automobile.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The opportunity presented itself and I took it, simple as that. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, the simple existence of the Indian slave trade— thousands of native men and women working in bondage for Europeans—was a testament to Indians’ catastrophic loss of power and status. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s just not as simple as you’re making it out to be. I don’t think every gay person can be clearly defined and kept in a nifty little box, you know?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I just...I feel so messed up right now. I wish my life were simple like everyone else’s. Do you think...” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Christian Brothers looked like a bottle of wine: it had a long, slender spout and a simple off-white label. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

A simple image entered Cole’s mind: a tiny sparrow in a nest, helpless, neck straining upward, mouth gaping open. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But soon fists were swinging without making discreet distinctions of rank, and a simple desire to throw a memorable punch and to survive the melee became the common standard. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made a simple chord and strummed it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But no one had made a move for them, so Wes had chalked it up as simple coincidence. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Nothing so crude. No, the secret is charm. Pure and simple.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It seemed as though she had hardly done anything, it had all been so simple. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

For him, our life was as simple as paying in cash and sticking the receipt in your breast pocket: we had the Lord’s protection, he said, because we came to Africa in His service. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I resolved to confront him and ask him some direct, simple questions and hear what he had to say. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to remember forever how fun it was to watch Baachan design this simple food like an artist. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

According to the auction description, the tablet was a flat circle of polished black stone, and it had one very simple power. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

All this over a simple pomegranate, still lying uneaten in my satchel buried beneath my bed. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The new phenomenon of cell fusion, a laboratory trick on which much of today’s science of molecular genetics relies for its data, is the simplest and most spectacular symbol of the tendency. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three messages had slid out of the pneumatic tube while Winston was working; but they were simple matters, and he had disposed of them before the Two Minutes Hate interrupted him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“It should be so simple. You see it and you write it down. A prank by schoolboys!” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The problem is simple: the world has too many people and not enough resources. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Yet, now that a man has actually come, I realize that my hopes were too simple. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

We played “Tumbling Tumbleweeds,” which I had been feverishly practicing all week, even though my part was quite simple. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It had seemed so simple then, but now every option was fraught with painful uncertainty. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

That caused quite a sensation among the villagers, who were accustomed to loose-fitting, simple peasant clothing. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t that simple, Sam. There’s more to it.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today I keep it simple, with a little blush, some silver eye shadow, and sheer lip gloss. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education and, even more amazing, no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody in my family would ever have given me such simple, helpful advice. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why such a simple task makes me so nervous. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

One might fear for Rufus, the thieving, simple shepherd, if his path crossed theirs! Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

This one led to a simple metal door. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she acted like they might die from a simple fever! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the history of science there is no simple solution to the apparently binary choice between radical contingency and predictable evolution. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He set out a pair of dark blue jeans and a black V-neck on his desk, hoping the simple colors would be nice enough to make it seem like he tried. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Still, even simple Enigma was hard to break, and Elizebeth was proud that she and her team had been up to the job. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It’s simpler to say that sometimes a noun can modify another noun. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was a simple process of odd man out. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

With an incising awl, he inscribed the leather-hard clay—a simple chrysanthemum design, far cruder than much of the elaborate incision work for which the potters of Ch’ulp’o were known. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It is not as simple as Kenny said, I remember thinking to myself. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next I read a simple obituary record of his or her life. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But limiting themselves to a small number of chords did not mean that the composers of the second half of the eighteenth century wrote simple music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The simplest way is to use a comma and start the question with a capital letter. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers were in mine and then they were not, as simple as that. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t wearing the fancy saffron robes or gold bangles she wore to impress clients—just a simple white dress. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“It seems real simple on my end. Your buddy shot someone and killed him and there was no justification for it in the first place. It is that simple.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I didn’t expect that to be so simple. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He replied, “What is in my Heart is not simple.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The most inventive solution to these questions was the simplest: it dispensed of code altogether. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Because their stove and toaster and pressure cooker and imported spices were left behind in Nsukka, their meals were simpler too, and Ugwu had more time to play with her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There’s a tailor who sets up his foot-pedal sewing machine under the tree and takes their orders, simple as that. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents had no idea what three older brothers can do to the simple name Ha. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Berlin did make one thing much simpler for Blake. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It is better to keep it simple for them. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The fungus gives the plant simple elements and minerals it has taken from the soil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The short one, number 5, brought the ball down and passed it in to their center on a simple give-and-go. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

For the most significant portion of my time at The Mecca, I followed a simple ritual. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Though quadratic equations are more complicated than linear equations, there is a simple way to figure out what the roots of a quadratic equation are. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

When someone gives the church money, he responds with a simple “A. Bien. ” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The issues I was working on weren’t simple, but still they were manageable in ways that much of what kept my husband at his desk at night was not. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was very simple to lie without words; he merely opened his eyes and grinned sheepishly at her. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They show us that the adjustment is only artificial, that it is not simple rest, but sharpest struggle for rest. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She packed up a simple navy pinstripe suit, hat, and sandals and embarked on her journey to California. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They remained to trouble me after I’d leave the library each afternoon and feel myself shy—unsteady, speaking simple sentences at the grocer’s or the butcher’s on my way back to my bed-sitter. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least I hope you do because other people look to you for strength and friendship and it’s that simple. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve played around on my piano and come up with some original stuff, but mostly simple melodies. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

As they fight, they will remember a time they battled long ago, when the world was simpler. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“While it is true, my young friend, that your size is—er—remarkable, I believe that a simple explanation from me will ease their fears. As you know, I have excellent skills at explaining things.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The German haunts her: in nightmares, he’s a spider crab three meters high; he clacks his claws and whispers One simple question into her ear. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The next day he would be flying: he never should have taken the job; it was too simple to be worth his labors. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And then suddenly new strength rose in him, and his voice rang out, while words of his own came unbidden to fit the simple tune. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Leah blurted out all in a rush, “So the plain simple grass of God’s creation can be just as strong as, as rubber or whatnot!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But beware—a simple cipher is easy for an expert to break! The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The reason is simple: nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than this ongoing war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A simple cricket, no longer than half my little finger—which is rather long because I play the piano—but a cricket that is able to chirp operatic, symphonic, and popular music. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The need to break up a passage into its thought units is simple enough. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Is there a simple rule of thumb that distinguishes a group with real social authority from a group with little power at all? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dump a puzzle on the living room floor, glad for the simple right and wrong of a single, perfect fit. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A simple exercise but he loved the ordered lines, the neatness, the stark beauty of planes and angles. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In daylight, it was simple to find the place, but nightfall had obscured the hills. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed so simple when he sat beside his mother, gliding in the evenings back to the beach house. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Yet this substanceless number threatens to undermine the simplest operations in mathematics, like multiplication and division. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I explained how I had reconstructed the text, then quoted the reconstructed text from memory, showing him how it fitted perfectly to the explanation offered by the simplest of all the commentaries. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then the importance of that simple statement struck him. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Ben said that they came to this world for the simpler life, said that there was even a fight in the early days whether to destroy the fission generators.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Edwards was essentially a simple man, but even a simple man has complexities which are dark and twisted. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The design was simple, the word “Jude” at the top and “Vermin” at the bottom, a detailed drawing of what must have been a flea in between. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

How could I have forgotten something so simple and important? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Their business wasn’t a simple one, where you could lock an office door and leave. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s a simple charm,” Marco says from his desk where he sits surrounded by open books. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Our strategy was simple and defensive in nature: to drag out the case until the State of Emergency was lifted and our lawyers could return. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all I wanted today was one simple thing. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Finally, the authorities built in each cell a kind of stand- up desk, a simple wooden board that jutted out from the wall at about chest-level. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We arrived at the hospital midmorning for what should have been a simple procedure, but when the doctors tried to remove the splints they discovered tissue had grown around them. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Louis had not managed to find very much money for our expedition, so our possessions were few and simple—a knife, fork, and spoon each, a couple of tin plates and tin mugs. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“May I suggest a simple, harmless fairy tale, then?” the lead actor said, with only a touch of condescension. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“It is a simple ceremony. Many bats and humans gather. You stand face-to-face with your bat and say a vow. Like so,” said Luxa, extending her hand and reciting a poem. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sarai’s words were simple enough, but they challenged the basic tenet of their lives: that they had an enemy. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Just outside the window was a simpler verandah for the servants, with some threadbare charpais and stools stacked against a wall. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

My plan was simple and foolhardy: steal a rowboat, cross the river to Jersey, and walk to Charleston. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, she smiled through the whole process, like drawing a simple whale was the best thing that ever happened to her. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t mind a math test, but I’d rather listen to Mr. Stoker talk and explain mathematics in his simple 7th-grade way. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Einstein posed simple questions that could have been asked centuries earlier. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liam had ordered each of us a simple meal of scrambled eggs, bacon, and two pancakes without syrup. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He thought reason, opinion and authority should all give ground before experience, but he lacked the language in which to express this simple idea. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Easy for you to say. You human persons are always flip-flopping about. Changing this plan. Changing that plan. All that flexibility is simple for you.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Transporting the stone when it was once broken was comparatively simple. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

It would have been a simple thing to slide it out and drive it down between her shoulder blades. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"I know, you're right. I picture a certain life—an observant wife, a Jewish home. Quiet, simple. Printing papers by day, coming home to a family at night. My dream hasn't changed." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The answer is easy: he would carefully observe his environment to see what materials he could use to make a simple machine, like a pulley or a lever. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a simple adjustment, a quick patch over an ugly memory.... The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Partridge was born in Norwich in 1785 and was a demon walker—possibly the first person on the whole planet who walked long distances for the simple pleasure of it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever was her own in the house, everything which she had acquired aside from her husband’s bounty, she caused to be transported to the other house, supplying simple and meager deficiencies from her own resources. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abraham Lincoln’s entry to Ford’s Theatre at 8:30 P.M. on April 14, 1865, was majestic and simple. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Music is powerful, and music has the power to change people emotionally or alter the mood of room with just a few simple notes or beats. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“It would be simplest, I think, just to proceed along the train carriage by carriage. That means that we start with No. 16—the amiable M. Hardman.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever happened now depended upon him; and when he felt it that way some of his fear left; it was simple again. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It soothed me to take part in this simple routine. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The simple part, at least, thought Barristan Selmy, as he made the long climb back to the summit of the pyramid. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Fleur was wearing a very simple white dress and seemed to be emitting a strong, silvery glow. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Gaylyn sat behind her desk, a simple thing with a laptop on it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The blankets, scarves, and gloves were beautiful, in subdued colors and simple patterns, but Shay insisted that Tally get a city- made sleeping bag. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

This simple figure is a glimpse at the infinite. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

With Easy French, eating out involves a simple "BRING ME A STEAK." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The simple logistic instructions—where to go, and when—were expected. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, how perfectly simple!” she said to herself. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

With a very calm and collected look, she explains that we are making a simple chicken curry that could be eaten with rice or naan, or even by itself. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

For instance, the simple equation 4x – 12 = 0 describes how an unknown number x is related to 4, 12, and 0. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

That was how Úrsula learned of the death of her mother, as a simple consequence of listening to the songs in the hope that they would say something about her son José Arcadio. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It came to him quickly and was so simple. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As the old man ended his story they reached the simple hut where he lived and there Aeneas spent the night on a couch of leaves with a bear’s skin to cover him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is not a simple way of earning,” I said, “and it is more difficult than it looks.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already I was heavy-hearted in my soul for the flush commodes and machine-washed clothes and other simple things in life I have took for granite. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

An Attendant’s job is simple: keep her charge from being killed by the dead, and her virtue from being compromised by potential suitors. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The simplest and most basic polyrhythms are: two against three or three against four. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Water now reached the kitchen through a hose with a nozzle that opened and closed with a simple twist. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Even this simple act of lifting herself made her head swim. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

This simple task had taken up her day. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It only me, no need to help. No help! Please! Dinner simple, boiled carrot top, potato, and rice. Not much rice.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

"That's correct," says Tiny, and then explains, "simple sugars don't really help me put on muscle mass." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

So it turned out the prayer wasn’t so simple. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The thinking is simple: science is very good at explaining what happens and predicting what is going to happen. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Things are not so simple as you think,” he finally said, sounding neither angry nor especially kind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father was obsessed with Occam’s razor, which, in short, says that the simplest solution is the best solution. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

This was routine procedure, done under the assumption that a steamer would always be more effective than a simple hose cart. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

It is a cheap brown plastic radio, with a simple dial and no shortwave so that it only receives German stations. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

"I ought to be chief," said Jack with simple arrogance, "because I'm chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was a simple game, and where I lived, it was the most popular sport to play and to watch. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

They used their wings to buzz a few simple words, like nectar and sun and hive. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A crot—the deadliest insult anyone could utter—was a simple, harmless eejit, like the thousands who had cut grass, washed floors, and tended poppies as far back as Matt could remember. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mademoiselle, you made me drop my newspaper. I am just a lowly sergeant major here to ask a question. One simple question and then I will leave.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Do you really think it’s that simple? We do a web search on this Parker guy, and that leads us to the money? That seems...I don’t know. Convenient. Easy.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

One set, for example, was simple aptitude tests developed by the Institute for Educational Research, a precursor to the group that now develops the SATs. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I expect you just happen to like living in a very simple way," Matilda said, probing a little further. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

She just had to find her notebook, simple as that. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They cause several different diseases in cultivated plants and have probably most recently evolved from more complex organisms rather than from simpler ones. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This in itself would have been a crime, but it was worse than simple murder, for Iofur learned later that the other bear was his own father. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was because Arthur was always a simple fellow, who took people at their own valuation easily. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is a useful lie. For you see that I, a poor, simple creature without reason, am harmless and hence safe from harm,” I explained. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Things weren’t easy then, but they were simpler. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in simple dark clothes that would normally conceal him well; but through the spyglass he showed up as if he were under a spotlight. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Wow, did you make those? I swear, artists make the simplest things look so good.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

To find other notes that sound "in tune" with each other, we look for other sets of pitches that have a "simple" frequency relationship. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It’s an ad for a local art show with a white background and simple, black writing. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Even in the privacy of my own home I find myself wearing only the simple lavender frock that I wear beneath my robes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

For example, 2/2 and 2/8 are also simple duple meters. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A British reporter covering the trial marveled at "this crew-cut, diffident, simple, rather polite man, surrounded by the entire apparatus of Soviet law." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

That very night I seek her out and find her kneeling in her cell, praying before a simple icon. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Tell whether the following words are primitive or derivative, and also whether simple or compound:— New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the story of each is practically the same as that of the other it is simpler to take it for granted that there was only one. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But maybe this was just another coincidence, pure and simple—there had been so many lately. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He could still see the colored stitches, but it was a simple—exquisitely beautiful, but simple—landscape again. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Keep them simple and proof them with your fingers, not your eyes. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It was a simple story, and it gave you a sense of the author being at peace with the world. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather, accustomed to the multifarious conjugations of ancient Greek verbs, had found English, for all its incoherence, a relatively simple tongue to master. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The signal he gave to the other two was a simple, mechanical wave. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Such simple things, the gourd and the pot, but without them it was hard to eat or drink. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crazy Horse’s part of the overall plan was simple. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The letter he finally wrote to Jenny with Ross Milton’s book close at hand as an aid to spelling was a simple one. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed him up a spiral staircase and into the clock tower itself, where there was a well-lit room with simple furnishings: two chairs and a wooden table. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Nothing about what we do is simple,” she said. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was as simple as that—when you could read. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

These are the simple rules of his house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His neatly clipped silver hair and tailored suits and unmitigating stare of eyes and trim old body said it all over in simple, clear language: Chief Executive Officer. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The contortionist lifts a small silver metal hoop from the ground, brandishing it with a few simple but impressive movements. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

What Perotin did was ask a very simple question: what would happen if you had more than two voice lines singing at the same time? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It did not satisfy desire, and at times Sam’s mind was filled with the memories of food, and the longing for simple bread and meats. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The ritual of it, the setting up and sitting down that seemed to her, from outside of it, the simple heart of culture. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I played it through once; it was a simple tune. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That month I wrote a very simple letter to General Willemse, the commissioner of prisons. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people had known, with the simple certainty of the world they saw, how everything should be. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘That a man can stand up’—as simple as that. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He goes to a cupboard, pulls out a box of supplies, and hands me a long, simple belt with a sliding clasp. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s a simple question, dear. What is the worst thing you’ve ever done?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They recycle organic matter with powerful enzymes that can break down organic molecules into simple molecules and minerals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“They are much simpler tools than the Whisperer, hardly more sophisticated than metal brooms. Otherwise my Executives would be unable to operate them.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But there was one part in all this that he could not think through, one indistinct shape that the shambles twelve miles outside Dunkirk could not reduce to a simple outline. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It is a lovely country; full of beauties of all imaginable kinds, and the people are brave, and strong, and simple, and seem full of nice qualities. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The blade was just shorter than the length of her forearm, and though it was made of a darker metal than the other knives, it was simple, straightforward, and ground very sharp. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

This forbearance on his part on hot, cloudless days, if that is what it was and not simple laziness, was not good enough. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

No simple blade or blow could kill him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even the simplest melody became a full concert—like a music video—when Angel danced to it. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our use for the Weed is, of course, deeper than a simple spying mission, though it’s somewhat hush-hush even here around the old Order of the C.H. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

When I was a kid, my aspirations were simple. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I wonder if those who hear this story will understand that my be­haviour was not an act of insanity or a covert suicide attempt, but a simple necessity. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A second-grade student, I was the one who came home and corrected the ‘simple’ grammatical mistakes of our parents. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been raining for some days, but now the rain seemed to have ended; it was a simple cloudy spring morning. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He hoped for a simple explanation, like You made the team, but your mom forgot to sign the medical form. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I could not smile, for I knew the truth of those simple words from the facts of my own life. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stood beside her as she traced patterns in chalk on chambray and calico, and I learned to make the wide simple chain stitches to guide the emerging shape of the garment. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The procedure was simple, permanent, and without risk. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Garland Farm followed simple logic: you plant tomato seeds, you get tomato plants. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She had grown to have some of the nature of an individual, stamped on the simple feelings of the child-queen who had once received her present of captives. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now, trying to write simple English, I not only wasn’t articulate, I wasn’t even functional. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Should Russia use the relatively simple and completely proven process of refueling in flight," he observed, "she would now have the capacity to deliver the bomb" into the American homeland. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the known pheromones are small, simple molecules, active in extremely small concentrations. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I kept reading them, a simple and safe white family framed in a circle, like looking into their lives through a telescope or binoculars from the other side of the street. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was that simple for me, and that stupid. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Dany told him what she had done, in his own tongue so the khal would understand her better, her words simple and direct. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If during the next eight days, everything worked as advertised, then our job would be fairly simple. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Edmund is such a simple soul. I never thought I’d be surprised at anything he did or said, but he and I had a very odd conversation the other day.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But Levanthal and Wunderman’s examples suggest that there may be simple ways to enhance stickiness and systematically engineer stickiness into a message. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I mean it, Gimp—seriously. I bet he could learn something simple like making rolls.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hemoglobin, the oxygen carrier in blood, for instance, performs one of the simplest and yet most vital reactions in physiology. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And so I learned how to type and do shorthand and simple bookkeeping. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing is that simple,” he said, “you don’t write off all the white people, just like you don’t trust all the Indians.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Lend me your dagger. I have a simple experiment that I wish to try on our prisoner. Come on.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“You dare meddle in my affairs? You are such a simple idiot. You are worthless.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

To help the creative process, you might give students a short, simple rhythm to work with to create the motif. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Not silk or velvet, just a simple calico dress, a dress that would have immediately revealed that she was a woman. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as simple and yet as incomprehensible as the moment a small child asks her father, “Why can you not be with us?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Izzy, it was even simpler: she didn’t care what people thought of her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Clay's announcement reflected simple geography: West Berlin floated like a tiny island in the sea of eastern Germany, a region completely controlled by the Soviets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered why a simple shot would give him this kind of pain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a simple weapon, unadorned by any jewels or intricate designs on its wooden hilt, but Ekon’s breath still caught when he saw the name carved into it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Because you police departments can’t do an adequate job in the simple matter of detecting the minuscule number of Nexus-6s who balk—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

More complicated even than this—for surely no Sassenach could be so simple as to come in the garb of the Sassenach—were they perhaps not representatives of King Arthur at all? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Galen defines hot or cold in the patient in simple terms: a hot patient is one who is hotter than the physician’s hand. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“What we saw was enough for Doctor Phillips even to make the identification alone without me. It was straightforward, simple. There was no trace of what I’d done. The bullet had not touched the bone.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And that was the simple truth of it, Harry knew, because their protective enchantments meant that it would be impossible, once they vacated this spot, for Ron to find them again. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

At first I thought he was a simple beggar, but then I saw he was dragging a small creature by its arms. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’s built a complex farm system around this simple idea. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Bill Richardson,” he would answer, the simple statement of his name greeting enough. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was as simple as that: eye problems. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like the others they had faced, this one wore a simple white tunic over skin as rough and dark as basalt. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Grover’s alive, I’m sure. There must be a simple reason why he hasn’t contacted us.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

‘The simple sailors of today,’ wrote Jacques Cartier in 1545, ‘have learned the opposite of the opinion of the philosophers by true experience.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She had called my mother Taitai, the simple honorable title of Wife, as if my mother were the first wife, the only wife. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is science, plain and simple,” he says to me. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The richest in France—and yet simple, almost forgettable. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It had been so long since I’d made simple conversation with someone that I felt strange and hesitant. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Iowa experiment is just that, of course, a simple card game involving a handful of subjects and a stress detector. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I move closer and sink onto a plastic chair, a little disappointed there’s no explosion, but mostly amazed that you can mix together simple, innocent kitchen ingredients and come up with a frothing volcano. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this did not apply only to Negroes, who were no more “simple” or “spontaneous” or “Christian” than anybody else—who were merely more oppressed. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

This was levels beyond the simple memorization I had practiced for the stage. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The reason was simple: They shut down school for the icy season. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The formula that Liszt put to use in his Hungarian Rhapsodies, and which was much imitated thereafter, was simple enough. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This is why the simplest and clearest writing has the greatest power to delight, surprise, inform, and move the reader. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a small sketch of a very simple palace—just a square, really, with four thin turrets coming up from each corner. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Of course, something told me that Farmer was more than a simple country doctor. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I will ask you a series of simple questions so that you can grow accustomed to the serum as it takes full effect,” says Niles. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Seeing the past is simple magic. Seeing the present or the future—that is not.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But it seemed to her now that it was not a fist-shaking grief they were keening but rather a simple obligation to say something, do something, feel something about the dead. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And with a simple flick from his brush, he changed the nineteen to ninety-nine. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, in simple terms, Bentley was right: the new science did undermine belief in magic and witchcraft, just as it undermined belief in astrology and alchemy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Preschoolers are so sophisticated in their viewing behavior that you can determine the stickiness of children’s programming by simple observation. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was such a simple name, and also a pretty popular one. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Max's eyes are wide and bright, too close to her simple wish to believe anything could go wrong now. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Getting a sample of Jinky’s DNA was simple: Doctors just took a small vial of blood. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I'd choose something simple—a shade of red to match Maman's hair, a high waist with a cream waist-sash, and a sweeping skirt that flows out like a silk river behind me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It was as simple as that we forbade, she insisted, we lost. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It did not enter his head that a wizard might be ashamed to perform such simple crafts, for he had been a witch-child among poorer folk than these. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, I’m not able to make a simple escape. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

If it were just a matter of counting casualties, the decision to drop the bomb would have been much simpler. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As an example, Max told me about his simple idea for testing Pauling’s a-helix. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Why could Descartes not bear the simple truth, that much of what he knew he had learnt from Beeckman? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the simplest way to reduce future carnage would be to ban bottled oxygen except for emergency medical use. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Powell was on his feet and had attracted the attention of one of the monster robots by the simple expedient of pounding the machine’s thigh. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

It was, she knew, the simplest kind of love, the purest form, untainted by Mind, which twisted everything, as Mrs. Shigemura, ironically, had preached. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I entered the stage door, conducted my rehearsal and returned to the hotel— three simple, normal acts denied to my aunt in 1939,” DePreist recalled. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Back then, all we wanted was the simplest things: to eat good food, to sleep at night, to smile, to laugh, to be well. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Anya spied a doll tied around its waist with a string, bundles of wheat cut short and tied with festive bows, and several apples with simple pictures carved into the skin. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Pure intervals are the ones found in the harmonic series, with very simple frequency ratios. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She kept it clean and simple, which helped her to think. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The people in that hall are simpler forms. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The simple answer is, I wanted to cross it off my to-do list. Sounds silly, doesn’t it?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The symbol of the spear was chosen because with this simple weapon Africans had resisted the incursions of whites for centuries. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you have an infinity in an expression, or when you divide by zero, all the mathematical operations—even those as simple as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division—go out the window. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

And there, on a throne of coral, sat my father, dressed like a simple fisherman in khaki shorts and a sun-bleached T-shirt. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Being primarily interested in Left Front, I sided in simple loyalty with the writers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The king's own fool, the pie-faced simpleton called Moon Boy, danced about on stilts, all in motley, making mock of everyone with such deft cruelty that Sansa wondered if he was simple after all. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The strap’s design was simple, unusual, and consisted of blue curls that Ten Snow bashfully explained were the uncoiled heads of new spring ferns, her husband’s favorite food. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

They have agreed to keep things simple this year. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Let us be thought over-much plain and simple, even bare, rather than gaudy, flashy, cheap and meretricious. Let us manifest the taste of gentlemen.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The first text adventure game I’d ever played was called Colossal Cave, and initially the text-only interface had seemed incredibly simple and crude to me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There were several simple armchairs around a square coffee table with a fake plant for a centerpiece. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I told her about some of my plants and gave a simple explanation of a few of my backyard botanical experiments. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Hall’s easygoing facade masked an intense desire to succeed—which he defined in the fairly simple terms of getting as many clients as possible to the summit. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A simple task be-cause Brother Leon insisted that all kinds of cross- indexed lists be kept so that you could tell at a glance just where students stood. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a simple white card inside a white envelope, and all it said was “Come to dinner this evening. George Papadimitriou.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the simple best invention of Life. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

So simple and timeless that I can recognize it, immediately, as food. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

His idea of dealing justice was simple, but effective: what each had done to others, Theseus did to him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am only a simple knight, the queen’s protector. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My father was the only son left, but even if their other sons were still alive, my father might still be their light because he is also a land, honest, simple, and good man. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Then Dr. Noguera closed the window with the pretext that there was too much sun, and explained to him in simple terms that it was a patriotic duty to assassinate Conservatives. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was a simple case of her wanting July over with so she could start into August, her special month. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a simple snapshot of the pig hanging from the tree. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“This is the prime problem in sympathy. Where do we get the energy? Here, however, the answer is simple.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And puzzles were so simple when you had the key. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

But I was afraid of that simple executive directness now. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No lord I. Only a simple servant of the Iron Bank of Braavos.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But radio is powerful, cheap, fast and simple. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Didn’t the simple fact that he had taken a Hallow, and turned it into a Horcrux, demonstrate that he did not know this last great Wizarding secret? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There, inside the game’s two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Also, I feel that crying is almost—like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever—totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

After one hour’s intense concentration Jean Louise mastered a simple box step. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It seemed like the beginning of adoration of something simple and pure. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, it seems wrong to call the shooting a simple accident, since this wasn’t exactly exemplary police work. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Then all the numbers would come out right, and figuring out the child’s age would be a simple matter of subtracting – 4 from 2. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“It should, perhaps, but it doesn’t. People are bloodthirsty. It’s the nature of simple folk. Blood excites them, and they love to be excited. It takes them out of their boring lives.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

A child was an ancestral composite, but a supremely simple one: one-half from the mother, one-half from the father. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, in that moment, Cole made a simple decision. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

When she asked P.J. to have a late lunch with her in the simple house he lived in, up the hill across from the clinic, she felt that he did so reluctantly. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And again, very simple assumptions would have enormous consequences. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He was buying equipment to make his collection of cars simpler, but he wasn’t generating the kind of revenue necessary to support the costs. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Morrie had always been taken with simple pleasures, singing, laughing, dancing. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I answer the phone, but even the simplest words catch in my throat and I say nothing. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

There is egocentrism, the inability of children to imagine a simple scene, such as three toy mountains on a tabletop, from another person’s vantage point. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s quite simple. I can’t afford to lose either one of them.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The simple discovery by Europe of the existence of the Americas caused an intellectual ferment. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The camp controllers tried to keep things as simple as possible; they set up rows and rows of tables lengthwise across the dusty concrete floor. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There was a simple reason for my having taken to perusing such works; it was an extremely efficient way to maintain and develop one's command of the English language. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then it was simply a matter of inching the weapon close enough to be graspable by one hand, and then it was an even simpler task to slash his bindings. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t simple. They had to build up a rebel base in the Capitol, get some sort of underground organized in the districts,” he says. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But the screams were loud and frightened, more than I would have expected from a simple fall. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“It is a simple plan, good father. I shall follow the map. I shall find the Witch.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

That was one of the first and simplest things she’d learned from the pamphlets Yuko had given her: Allah is just the Arabic word for God. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She showed me the very simple top part of a four hands version of the song. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The basic idea behind the possibles theory was simple, and didn’t provoke much dispute. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But every Muslim and plenty of non-Muslims saw the murders for what they were, a vicious hate crime, pure and simple. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He hid out for two weeks, and when he finally did return, murder had sunk back to simple anger and he paid his penalty in overwork and a false theatrical humility. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She sank down on it as soon as she got into the room and stretched out, feeling bathed, scoured, vacuumed, and for the first time simple. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

No organic molecules could be found—no building blocks of proteins and nucleic acids, no simple hydrocarbons, nothing of the stuff of life on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first task of Blink is to convince you of a simple fact: decisions made very quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Let me give you a very simple example of this. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Mother is wearing a simple white dress—like a country bride wearing a hand-me-down, I suddenly think, and I feel a rush of panic that we have overdressed, all of us. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The Test was simple: climb the castle to where the flag waved ninety feet in the air and retrieve it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I wish it were that simple, honey,” Mom says. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Hank unfolded one, the mock-up for the front of the One Drum shirt—a simple Rolland Rocks in the same font as our award-winning Stokum Sucks design. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then in our line formation, she teaches us a few simple steps each day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The problem had been so simple, he’d almost forgotten about it. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then some friends who had heard the news appeared with four boxes, plain simple pine without even a latch. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Ahmad was thinking beyond simple cases of attorneys and bail. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

His few simple possessions were gone and the room was very clean and bare. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was simple: You made a guess as to what the problem was, and Calixte wrote it down in her book. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It looked just as it had in Anorak's Invitation: a simple antique copper key, its oval-shaped bow embossed with the roman numeral “I.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Many simple children’s games actually carry complex musical attributes. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Simple. Well, not that simple, but easier than you might expect. Especially with the butterfly whisperer over here.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Did the judge have any idea it was a frame—too simple? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Life was a lot simpler a few hours ago when she thought I was just an asexual sea sponge. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

His code was simple New Testament ethic, its rewards were the respect and devotion of all who knew him. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The simple answer is because I am telling the story from Maddie’s point of view, and it would be awkward to introduce another viewpoint character at this point. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In her dream they had been man and wife, simple folk who lived a simple life in a tall stone house with a red door. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And the information in their head is really simple. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

All he had done was sit in cold water and try not to think, and yet that simple act had made him feel so calm. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But the result was going to be simple and fair enough: they were being put on a bus or train and sent out of the city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A simple bit of mathematics, like subtraction, where one taken away from the top line becomes one added on to the bottom. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only were Russian farms run on unfree labor, but they used very simple, old-fashioned methods of farming. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“If only it had been that simple,” she said. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to go off on a little girl, so I start with a simple question. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Either Mrs. Coulter did not know the boil of feelings that her simple words had lanced, or she was monstrously clever. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Although neophyte writers may repeat a simple sentence structure to the point of inanity, most writers go to the opposite extreme and vary their syntax capriciously. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

During his twelve years in the community, he had never felt such simple moments of exquisite happiness. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Back then, in our league, it was simple. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teachers need a simple way to teach them how to break sentences, so they tell them that sentences beginning with and and other conjunctions are ungrammatical. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He would utter something simple, like “aster,” or something odd, like “Calopogon,” and I would go, much like a setter after a duck, to fetch it for his basket. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was simple enough but seemed an exercise better suited to the use of the pronoun they. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Since the Crochan is yours,” she said, “you’re entitled to know how to dispose of it. There’s only one way, though very simple and neat it is.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The bond committee, the friends and relatives, the simple unhonored spectators didn’t think of leaving the field. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Everything we do seems so innocent and simple. I can’t believe we do anything wrong.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Ship of Fools was a simple game played in seafaring vessels all across Kelanna. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

First, in conceptual terms at least, there are the ‘simple machines’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

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

What could be simpler, once the social element was removed? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At midnight, the bonfire is ceremoniously lit, having spent the earlier part of the evening standing empty, appearing to be a simple sculpture of twisted iron. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Instead of placing Earth at the center of the universe filled with epicycle-filled clockworks, Copernicus imagined that the sun was at the center instead, and the planets moved in simple circles. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Plain and simple explanations on living off the sea were given in abundance, but a basic knowledge of seafaring was as­sumed by the author of the manual. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way— without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The simplest way of making strange facts plainer was to replicate them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

People wanted to look at me and make a quick and simple decision as to who I was. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I walk into my room, and when I close my door behind me, I realize that the decision might be simple. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was a simple solution, but it also created its own problems. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t understand our tears, couldn’t know how amazing such a simple meal was to us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

So a simple answer was that the existence of dry land was a miracle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Ethel is a simple woman,” Martin said, sinking in the chair. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But once I'm on my feet, I realize escape may not be so simple. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She wore the same kind of simple brown dress as she had before, but she was a grown woman now. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

For the simple truth was that the aging Sage of Quincy had nothing else to do. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

This didn’t sound so simple a path to me. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The quest is simple: leave a pair behind. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The result was a small, unwarlike population with simple technology and weapons, and without strong leadership or organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She would have touched her as though a touch were something simple. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There was never any simple, intimate, human kind of conversation between him and his son. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Start by finding a short, simple, fun or interesting pattern in the song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The figure below also shows some very simple forms of some common cadences. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But my lips won’t come together to make even simple sounds like that, so most of my noises are vowels. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“You know,” the guy continued, “just about every poem we received was one of those dreadful rap poems. But yours was so simple, so dignified, and so American. And yet, it sounded almost.. . British.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’s followed by a young boy dressed in a white suit, holding a simple wooden box. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Newton opened the eyes of scientists to the fact that the fundamentals of the Universe might be simple and understandable, in spite of its surface complexity. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

To encounter ‘simple’ people—a tradesman, a housewife, a farmer—describing their spiritual lives in detail amazed me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had run two Iditarod sled-dog races across Alaska, and I thought—really, it seemed to be that simple—that if a person could do one, he could do the other. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The well had a little wooden roof over it and a simple winding device and there was the rope dangling down into a dark bottomless hole. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

This time she left off all the divining gyrations and jingle-jangle antics and just started her story, plain and simple. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“We must make, ah, some offering, that is, some contact with nature. Perhaps some simple creature might be the vehicle through which He will speak. Let us see.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time it reaches the end, the corn is reduced to simple molecules, mostly sugars. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Egyptian hieroglyphics are, in significant part, a simple substitution cipher. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know SquareHead314 is a whiz with differential equations. He...or she...can explain things in the simplest terms.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s way of making hard things seem easy, and complicated things seem simple. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The motive for this assault was simple and urgent. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They might be simple, down-to-earth statements about navigation, or sources of krill, or limits of territory. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, there were always the predictable kidnappings and summer love triangles, but a good show could always surprise you with something as simple as the discovery of an underground city. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would explain to Makgatho in the simplest terms how the black man was persecuted by the white man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All he could muster was a simple, “Probably so.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But now he could not help Hathaway and the CIA, for the simple reason that he had no clue who the mole might be. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His reign was one of terror, Crawford's had been one of simple brutality. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“It is hardly as simple as that, I fear,” he murmured. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ocean’s message was at once simple and heartbreaking. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She had imagined a soaring dome, a richly colored Ezine carpet, but the room is just a simple auditorium. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It would be so simple to let go. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Here’s an even simpler way to say it: To crack an egg properly, leave the yolk intact. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their simplest words seemed to refer to something else, as did many of the notions that unfurled through my head. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be based on simple justice—he was an innocent man. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After a second his son joined in, and their rough voices made a simple harmony that set something inside me aching as I remembered other wagons, different songs, a half-forgotten home. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Galileo proceeded to confirm his new theory with a very simple experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And the simple truth is that I can't go home again. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

On hearing of Gotama’s approaching death, she had set off on foot, wearing simple clothes, together with her son. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As if it were as simple as that,” Kvothe said sharply. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Steel girders replaced wood-framing, exteriors were made of brick or granite, and designs favored straight, simple lines. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tom, age 10, was mute when he came to the Esther B. Marinoff, but now he speaks in simple sentences and reads at a third-grade level, the caption reads. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The song “A Ram Sam Sam,” for example, is a traditional Moroccan folk song that contains many simple repeating patterns. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The migratory birds had all left, the hibernators were asleep, and everyone else had begun their simple winter routines. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But it’s too noisy outside to hear even this simple question, so Frank points to the house. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Yes, scythes must glean,” Faraday said, “but we also must eat, and sleep, and have simple conversation.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He was looking at me like having to answer a simple question was beneath him. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Isn’t it as simple as going out and taking bets? X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it means that sometimes things are so complicated that it is impossible to predict what they are going to do next, but they are only obeying really simple rules. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Now, as I drive, I look forward to that simple act of bagging rocks. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

You wouldn’t think a simple headscarf could cause so much commotion, and yet I’d frequently have to look over my shoulder to see if Jack or one of his friends was lurking nearby. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Clyde’s fiendish mind has not stopped at so simple an abasement, however. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black man, whom the soldiers called Tybee, passed out some rough garments for them to wear—a simple smock for the women, a shirt and trousers for the men. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When Miss Anderson sang the simple spiritual ‘Hear de Lambs a-Cryin’ in her deep, hollow, subterranean register . . . you felt it up and down the spinal column,” wrote New York Herald-Tribune critic Alan Rich. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I could do the multiplication table through ten and read and write simple sentences by the age of four as a result of all those long nights working with her. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone talks to Mam’s brother Uncle Pat, because he was dropped on his head, he’s simple, and he sells newspapers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The first reason was the simplest: I love telling stories. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

A parlor with simple but tasteful furniture, things she had seen in the white shops of South Carolina. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

My simple device to deceive Polonius and the king grew, under Hamlet’s hand, into a plot with ever more complex motives and uncertain ends. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They’re mostly simple algebra or geometry, but they still distract me from the traffic and from thinking about Windy. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it and then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

James tossed those sentences out so casually, totally unaware of how such simple statements could make Emily’s head spin. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It has been four days since I last wrote anything, and there is a simple reason why: no paper. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Just a simple arched marker, nothing special about it, except it was the only one. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re not in trouble here. It’s a simple task. You found a book that belongs to someone else. Retrieve it and give it back.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Most important, the simplest way to generate cozy corners was to have the subunits helically arranged. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

However, it was simpler not to say anything. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But it was a simple instruction I had to convey. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s down-to-earth, it’s simple, it’s untrue, and it’s familiar enough and trivial enough to be understood and loved by our greedy, nervous, illiterate sponsors.’” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I had some things to do myself, but not many, and Francis had assured me that getting the money was a simple matter of going downtown and signing some papers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I have to show him that I’m sorry, so I’ve dressed the part: plain and simple, jeans and T-shirt, hardly any makeup. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sort of mystical fairy tale, it romanticized and celebrated the simple life of German farmers living harmoniously with nature on their German soil. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Now this thing isn’t just that simple, is it? 1 mean, I don’t know, but I sure don’t think it’s just this simple.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sign says Hall of Mirrors, but when you enter you find it is more than a simple hall. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was not all as simple as it may sound. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have told her since she could understand simple words that we are not free to love whom we will! Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“It was ... not so simple as that. Lord Karstark slew two prisoners, my lady. Unarmed boys, squires in a cell.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

School in the camps had been simple and disorganized, and Hanako hadn’t learned much. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her black tunic was simple but clean, and she wore a large head wrap that covered any hair she might have. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

All he could do was open his beak wide and raise it upward toward the sky, the action a simple admission that he was powerless. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The latrine was a simple wooden structure only large enough for one person, with scarcely the room to sit. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And upon a closer look it can be discerned that the swirl of the tattoo is more than simple black marks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was a simple matter of being attracted to what I couldn’t have. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a lot of power in this simple number. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The rats real plan was, in a way, more simple and more terrible. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“You see how simple it is,” the doctor said to Milo, who didn’t see at all. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Okay," he announced, "here's the deal. We plead guilty to one charge of conspiracy to distribute and they drop the rest. They want to make it simple." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The simple act of being able to control one’s person. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wife, about the same age as he, was dressed in a simple brown cotton dress and a grey wool sweater worn at the elbows and buttoned in the front. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dalton’s simple insight was that at the root of all matter are exceedingly tiny, irreducible particles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Strange to think how simple things could be. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The first problem on it was to spot the error in a simple, three-line piece of code. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At first, it took Elizebeth eight hours or more to decrypt a simple text. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When he preached at the simple church at the western end of Mqhekezweni, the hall was always brimming with people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pick up the simple phrase and bounce it back and forth between them in sweet harmony. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

My fingernails had grown a good three inches by the time he struck his final note and called me close to point out a few simple chords. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And with a couple simple sort functions, I've got their names and addresses and phone numbers isolated in a list. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started out with some simple beats.When my hands and feet started to loosen up, I switched over to this really complicated Latin rhythm I’d been working on. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

What people say about themselves can also be very confusing, for the simple reason that most of us aren’t very objective about ourselves. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Stairs that went down however, he had discovered, were fairly simple. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

We knew this for a simple reason: by the second day of a hunger strike, no one needs to use the toilet. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the simple shelter we lived in, we now had a nylon tarp for a roof, supplied by the UN. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would tell them in simple words, always the same way, and with the years it came to be a sort of angry poem which he had always known by heart. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

At that point, you may want to spend some time practicing analyzing some simple, familiar pieces. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t quick; it wasn’t soft and simple. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Plutarch tries to lay it out in simple terms for me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I wondered when I had ever been so fortunate as to have something so simple as a toothbrush. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a simple meter, each beat is basically divided into halves. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The master and his unlikely pupil started with simple rhymes and short passages from popular British versifiers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We are at a loss to understand them and we wish they’d give us a few simple, clear-cut rules to go by. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And Hodor too, I hope. The boy is simple, you know that. He does as he is told. How many times has he groomed your horse, soaped your saddle, scoured your mail?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I was worried it would be hard to attach the brackets to the rover's undercarriage, but it ended up being simple. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her supper was a simple meal of fruit and cheese and fry bread, with a jug of honeyed wine to wash it down. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She was as distracted and as smiling in bed as she was in everything else; relaxed and simple, but absent. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zero and infinity made the simple acts of taking tangents and finding areas appear to be self-contradictory. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Perched upon that nest of braids was a simple ring of gold, very much like the one Joinville had worn earlier that day. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I wondered if he always had such simple meals, but nothing had seemed so perfect to me. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It’s a simple question, but there is no simple answer. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

They walked three times around the lake, trying all the way to think of a simple spell that would subdue a dragon. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I’m drawn to it for a very simple reason: the classical music world had a problem—and they fixed it. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I still wonder if Uncle always ate in this simple way. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It’s just that those things don’t seem to have the weight, the measureless beauty of countless sunsets and dawns, the simple grace and clear glory of nature. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Yet he was not quite at the goal: simple math told him that reaching that energy would require a linear tube many meters in length—“rather awkwardly long for laboratory purposes.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They were such simple gestures, but I found myself deeply moved. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He knew how to deal with Edmund, now; firmness, he had decided, firmness and directness, that is all that is needed, and then they are happy enough; boys are very simple animals. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He saw Hodor, the simple giant from the stables, carrying an anvil to Mikken's forge, hefting it onto his shoulder as easily as another man might heft a bale of hay. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The life of the wild animal is simple, noble and meaningful, they imagine. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then again, maybe turning my Olympic dream into a reality could be as simple as the advice my friend and teammate Aly Raisman gave me at Nationals Camp that spring. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.... While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Today she was wearing her simple blue dress and a heavy knitted sweater with buttons made from small flat stones. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” he says, managing to stumble over three simple words. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It would be simpler to let me stay, more sensible, she wanted to tell them, happier. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The meaning is simple: Put down your guns and go home. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted her to have the full, long life that every parent promises his or her child by the simple act of bringing that child into the world. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“No, Reynard, in this case simplicity is essential. My Whisperer is designed to soothe troubled minds, and nothing soothes the mind more effectively than a simple answer to a complicated problem.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“That is all you may use. Who can build a simple motor?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Every few seconds, pressed between expensive fabrics and glittering jewels, he could pretend that he was lost among them, invisible in his simpler kaftan. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Oh, that happens all the time. It’s a simple fix.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Lily’s feelings were always straightforward, fairly simple, usually easy to resolve. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s really very simple,” said the Humbug, twirling his cane. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Well, the simplest thing with a bunch of fancy words and mile-long sentences. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

His hair, like most who live in our sector, hangs down past his shoulders and is tied back into a simple tail. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

His explanation was very simple, and in a way frightful. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

These instructions had to be very simple, usually composed of just two or three words, such as “go south” or “get sword.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They looked very well in their simple suits, Meg’s in silvery drab, with a blue velvet snood, lace frills, and the pearl pin. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not that simple, Bo. Maybe it is for you, but not for me.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“That’s what your father is, right? Go on. Figure it out. It’s really simple.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was meant to be a simple beating. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The simple truth is the camp was no more ready for us when we got there than we were ready for it. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has never looked more out of place, with her gray slacks and gray jacket buttoned at the throat, her hair in its simple twist and her face placid. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Somehow, the game’s simple two-sentence room descriptions were able to conjure up vivid images in my mind’s eye. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Donders built instruments to try to measure what he called “the time required for simple mental processes.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Coronary thrombosis," the intern diagnosed, "but that's just an educated guess. In simple language: heart attack." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If Elodin had been here, matters would have been much simpler. But as the name of fire is unknown to me, I was left to my own devices.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I should have done a simpler costume,” I say after Sue closes the door. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Though there was no money for lessons, Marian and her sisters taught themselves to play some simple melodies. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“I know what kind of foods you prefer, I know what color is your favorite, I know you like simple things. The house was an error, the castle was an error.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

When wagons arrived to retrieve the downed silk sleigh and its passengers, the four of them stuck to a simple story of mechanical failure, which was questioned by no one. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The strange, redheaded sailor taught Amari the words “ocean” and “ship” and “man” and “floor” and “wall,” as well as many other simple words and phrases. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be so simple to just stand on her tiptoes and plant a kiss on his neck. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A simple kiss on the cheek and his eyes are glassy. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Those girls must be a little simple not knowing a mushroom when they see one. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m not as simple as you might think.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

His black robes were tied at the waist with a simple white cord. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s a simple charm I’ve used countless times —” “Why can’t I just go to the hospital wing?” said Harry through clenched teeth. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The game program provided you with a simple written description of your surroundings, then asked what you wanted to do next. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They had been carved onto some of her toys, brightly painted wooden blocks, their sides engraved with symbols and simple pictures. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone who sat down at one of those tables was trying to answer a very simple question: Do I want to see this person again? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

There are similar galaxies, as if stamped from the same mold, all over the Cosmos because these simple laws of nature—gravity and the conservation of angular momentum— are the same all over the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a simple wooden seesaw in the middle of the lot, and a dried-out coconut palm listed in the back. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his simple remarks he confirmed for them that America was still great, still number one in the weekly top twenty poll, whatever the threat of the Japanese and the Germans and OPEC. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is simple, yet not nearly so easy to achieve. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

After we read the poem, Ms. G broke it down to its simplest form, she wanted no part to be misunderstood. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Heeding Myma’s counsel with the eager assistance of various young men, one of the simple lovelies suffered a nervous breakdown; the other attempted unsuccessfully to slash her wrists with a broken Coca-Cola bottle. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I search for simple small-talk words, but none come to mind, so I ask, “Um, what did you want to talk to me about?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It surprised me no end how much I missed our ordinary, routine life—the simple act of pouring wax into a candle mold or repairing a broken hive box. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The simple rule I had to remember was to always close one gate before opening the other. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But suddenly he had remembered it in his sleep—the simplest thing! The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was eleven my highest priority was the simple security of my body. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Girls have run from simple spiders, boys have tackled one another in the grass. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When they had recovered enough to look around them, Kaisa said, “It is only a pavane. Come, the steps are simple.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a simple one-holer, complemented by the inevitable Sears, Roebuck catalog. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the explanation was really very simple.The van had previously been the property of the knacker, and had been bought by the veterinary surgeon, who had not yet painted the old name out. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The simplest possible fare, served on the finest porcelain, and set on an elaborate charger of chased silver. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Why so many low-income students fall from the college ranks is a question without a simple answer. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white, whose gentle voice was soft and sad. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was a simple two-note job — one high note, one low. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents had four children before me, and I should have been born, plain and simple. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Then we can examine why a large but simple society could not maintain itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I look at the price tag on a simple shirt, and it’s nineteen dollars! Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Of course you were,” the doctor said, and Eleanor thought, How simple he is, how transparent; he believes every silly thing he has ever heard. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

And yet della Porta could not bring himself to rethink his world in the light of this simple discovery. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The room was small and simple, except that it was on the top floor, and had French doors which opened onto a terrace as large as the room. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this year Mr. Rice had chosen a different solo for Caroline, a very simple one. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking quickly over the evening before, she could remember only that she had—must have—seemed foolishly, childishly contented, almost happy; had the others been amused to see that she was so simple? The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Death, however, was neither simple nor lightly brushed aside when it struck home. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chairs are simple straight-backed cane but, inside his special state box, Lincoln likes to sit in the red upholstered rocking chair that Ford’s reserves for his personal use. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Father and Ruth May both, as simple as that. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the structures had been burned, except a simple straw hut that had been only half scorched away. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the screen was finished — simple white background with black text, academic-looking. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

On her left hand she wore a ring that was as simple as it was ostentatious—a single sapphire, bright and blue and round like an egg. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Don had been three when his parents had split up, and his coming back into Charlie’s life on a permanent basis wasn’t the simplest of moves. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the very outskirts of the village, there was a large, simple wooden structure originally meant to provide cover in a rainstorm, then, when more solid buildings were built, to store things temporarily. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours and a fixed salary and very little original thinking to do. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I laugh because if s such a simple and concise way to describe something so complicated. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

But my suspicions and fears for the doctor were keen, not so much because of his political activities but from my simple fondness for him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruby twisted, and with a simple serpentine slink she was in Feral’s lap. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I was here when her father died,” the Captain said, as though the two of us should have known such a simple fact as that. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Alys sent her alone to tend a simple cough or fever or rash. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This simple formula relates mass and energy: the mass of an object is equivalent to a certain amount of energy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“The opposite of a Tentacle is a simple task, something that’s placed before you and that you do without question. That’s what they have in here.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Their material cultures were simpler, too—no writing, no stone plazas, no massive temples—though Plains groups did leave behind about fifty rings of rock that are reminiscent of Stonehenge. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He could still do simple, everyday things, then. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Hollows was simple and square, with stained glass windows showing Teccam in a classic pose: standing barefoot in the mouth of his cave, speaking to a group of students. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His cue is simple: there is a moment in the third act when the actor Harry Hawk, playing the part of Asa Trenchard, is the only person onstage. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was alchemy, pure and simple; no one had ever imagined that such a thing could happen naturally and spontaneously. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Booth issued simple instructions to his henchmen: Invade the house, locate the secretary of state’s bedroom, and kill the defenseless victim with pistol fire and, if necessary, a knife. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plan was simple: on election day, we had to get all the saints to the polls. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If only the apostrophe’s life had stayed that simple. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Her daily job of setting out the newspapers was simple but came with responsibility, as it meant that the faculty entrusted her with the keys to the library. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was so simple, and so obvious, that he couldn’t believe it had taken so long — Sirius. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was a simple pebble, an ounce at most. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the tiniest cheer ever, simple and sweet. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

If I were, things would be so simple. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I’d never said it before, and saying it made the whole problem sound too simple. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Hoagland had retired him, plain and simple, after Jack requested a quiet exit. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Go get the flower. Save Manhattan. It's really very simple." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, then,” said Milo, not understanding why each one said the same thing in a slightly different way, “wouldn’t it be simpler to use just one? It would certainly make more sense.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

It can’t be this simple and efficient; otherwise, why are they paying me so much money?’” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know the exact qualification path to make an Olympic team, but my plan was simple: work as hard as possible, maintain focus, and the success would come. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Things were so simple at the start, before grammar came along and ruined things. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

If only his own life were so simple. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The simplest scheme is Aristotle’s—who said that a speech is a thing of two halves. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

In one more verse, surely they will have captured the melody, as it’s simple and repeats four times with little variation. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

That would be much simpler and more just than this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

To someone who didn’t know any better, they would probably look like simple peanut butter jars. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

How can you deny a dying person a simple wish? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The software industry did the first by creating and popularizing a protocol known as SMTP—simple mail transfer protocol—which enabled the exchange of e-mail messages between heterogeneous computer systems. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

In his arms, he carries a very old Torah scroll, the simple fabric of its cover threadbare and torn. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The pecking order was simple: Students obeyed teachers, and everyone obeyed Miss Mortimer. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

As Gwydion helped him rise, Taran still stared in disbelief at the simple attire and the worn, lined face. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The only game-related item he’s wearing is a pair of simple, silver cuff links glinting in the sunlight, both cut in the shape of the Warcross logo. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I dress in a simple shirt and pants and go down the hall to the dining room. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Five simple words—a girl with red hair—and what a torrent of emotion they unleashed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It is thus simple to test the claim that there was a Scientific Revolution in the seventeenth century by looking for the revolution in language that must have accompanied it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her music reminded Bridge of picking wildflowers—she started with something thin and simple and then kept adding new sounds, all different shapes and colors, until she had something explosive. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

By touching my head, she indicates my simple coif. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It was what she did, simple as that. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She was a simple, bright woman who lived in a simple, bright house on the edge of town. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I've lost the will to do the simplest tasks, to do anything but lie here, staring unblinkingly through the canopy of leaves. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“The simple answer is, I wanted to cross it off my to-do list. Sounds silly, doesn’t it?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He was more enthusiastic about America than ever, and he was not so simple, and he was not so nice. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

My father, a simple principal, was taking on the two most powerful and dangerous forces in the country. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then one day you notice the trains aren’t making simple deliveries anymore. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“People’s minds are too simple to grasp the endless nature of God,” he would add. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The math is simple: when a college goes looking for applicants with high SAT scores, it is far more likely to find them among well-off teenagers. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The information content of these pulses is negligible: a succession of simple numerical patterns coded into beeps. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Asked what the purpose of school was at Permian, Don had a simple answer. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t try to make this simple,” I say. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

All these little simple, foolish, but tremendously strong, vital, passionate urges and desires no longer seemed trivial to Siddhartha. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Making these visuals simple and accessible will greatly help autistic children in the class. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Again, he veered away from simple organisms, hoping to jump straight into humans. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“We’re just simple rabbits, Bigwig and I. Do you mind explaining?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because the other alternative was that he had thought of a simple way to force me to come back. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a line; it’s just a simple truth we live by.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

This was no simple matter, for I had no plans. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

When that wind blew, the simplest of devices—from lucifer matches to lantern-slides—would no longer function. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She stands there staring at me like I have just recited a speech instead of one simple word. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Never had simple arithmetic brought such a smile to my face. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

All my life I’ve tried to set my shoes squarely into his footprints, believing if only I stayed close enough to him those same clean, simple laws would rule my life as well. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We talked at his house, which was not at all grand, and I recall that he drove himself in a simple car, a little Austin. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Navid whined all day, even though he was given the simplest task of making mashed potatoes. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

On the end table is ajar of peaches and a simple note from Mr. Gideon: “Please enjoy this modest gift.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The Moor’s slaves—in other words the chorus—had taken up their song a bar too soon and this had nullified the simple rhythm of the magic bells. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Theirs was a passionate rejection of America, for they sensed with that directness of which only the simple are capable that they had no chance to live a full human life in America. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Times are simpler when no one hates you because of your name and it doesn’t occur to you to be ashamed of it. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It's simple: nothing to fear but fear itself. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At times, I wish I were back home, in that simple schoolroom with no computers. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

If just for one week the South would show them some simple, impartial courtesy. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I was wearing what used to be a pair of simple white Nikes, but I’d drawn all over them. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“The concepts of sympathy are not entirely easy to grasp. But underneath everything there remain three simple laws.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

More likely the worst would happen: the simple passage of time, in which his animal toughness would easily outlast my human frailty. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Forget this. I shoulda known you weren’t up for it. Just a couple country boys, right? You like everything straight and simple.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And here he was a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The simple statement, unbacked by any proof but the weight of Ralph's new authority, brought light and happiness. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the end, it would have embroidery around the neck and a simple tie-close opening. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the simple swiveling kind, with a black leather seat and a built- in holster for a fishing pole. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In school they had learned to speak simple Japanese and paint pictures of the three beautiful places. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And of course the ruins were very large; finding seven people in what had once been a city of millions was no simple matter. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

We wanted people to understand this simple fact: Walter did not commit that murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Luna, stop,” Xan said, putting a simple blocking spell on the girl. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Now the villagers have to seek permission for the simplest of human desires-to have family members live with them or to leave the village to visit another area. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“However,” Toby continued, “this is not a matter of plain and simple finking. Letting you Egyptians get away with all this secret stuff just might be considered—like, unpatriotic, or something.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The robot in question, a simple MC model, lay upon the table, almost complete. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

When we wore our simple disguises, few people gave us a second look. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When societies were simpler, the class landscape was easier to read. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

O for a simple solution to this one! Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I marked an X in the box next to the letters ANC and then slipped my folded ballot paper into a simple wooden box; I had cast the first vote of my life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Biological-control studies, on the other hand, are never so endowed — for the simple reason that they do not promise anyone the fortunes that are to be made in the chemical industry. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, she knew, the most important battles for dignity, pride, and progress were fought with the simplest of actions. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Within twenty years at the most, he re-fleeted, the huge and simple question, “Was life better before the Revolution than it is now?” would have ceased once and for all to be answerable. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The idea was so simple that it had to be right. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

But the remedy lacked his authority because it was simple and didn’t cost anything. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although these questions might seem to be simple, they reflect a depth of music knowledge garnered throughout a lifetime of cultural exposure to music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“You’ll never get it. Baby will get it. It’s an industrial accident. It’s a simple industrial accident.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It’s a simple way of estimating how many friends and acquaintances you have. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Growing up and learning his trade from his father at Eton, he had used simple hand tools—saws, hammers, chisels, wood planes, and sanding blocks. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There was a simple problem with this strategy of establishing the existence of the spirit world by accumulating testimonies from reliable witnesses. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then his ugly face took on a look of profound and outraged sorrow, so simple and truthful that his nakedness in the window-light was dignity. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at my own clothes, the simple shirts and slacks provided by Claire. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

It appeared simple, but I knew it was made of a handwoven cloth called king’s muslin, the very best you could buy. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of that day was spent experimenting with the simple sympathetic binding Abenthy had taught me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Jonas smiled at her in admiration and affection, but his own clothing, even on Feast Night, was simple: a homespun shirt over coarse trousers. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Like a stroke victim, I was having to relearn all the simple motor skills. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A simple question, not the whole big mountain of whys: Why hasn't he asked to see me? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was a simple silver ring, but there must have been a hundred keys on it. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of these partial theories describes and predicts a certain limited class of observations, neglecting the effects of other quantities, or representing them by simple sets of numbers. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As deaths from simple infections rise dramatically, a new sense of teamwork spreads throughout the world. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was so simple once you knew what you were looking for. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is easy for you, but perhaps not quite so simple for us. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no fragments existed, for the simplest of reasons: Mesarthium could not be cut. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

By following a simple rule, A and B became funny. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The Labadists in particular embraced simple communal living and sacrifice in order to flush out the poisons of self-love. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As we continued to circle the bay above the Golden Gate Bridge, I felt like I was being teased for the simple act of wanting. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had a simple thin band and an oval-shaped piece of dark turquoise held in place by snaking silver strands. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It felt comfortable to be in a country where it is so simple to make people happy. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Just between you and me ... I think you might have gotten three, because you’re the kind of bullheaded person who would refuse to make a simple choice just because she was told to,” he says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Before the Americans could go inside, their only English-speaking guard told them to memorize their simple address, in case they got lost in the big city. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nat heard him growl, “Why couldn’t it have been something simple—like a fight!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a simpler nature; he looked up to Balthamos as to the fount of all knowledge and joy. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Like it’s really that simple for Hudson to write me out of his life. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Friedmann made two very simple assumptions about the universe: that the universe looks identical in whichever direction we look, and that this would also be true if we were observing the universe from anywhere else. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vestibule had clean, white walls; the table and benches were of dark wood; and the priest was dressed in a white cassock—it was all neat, plain, simple. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wish Americans were as simple and natural as Germans, don’t you? Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we knew she cared, for the simple reason that she never called us names; she would yell but never call us names. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He repeated himself, talking slowly, trying to make a very confusing thing simple and clear. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was such a simple answer that Koppel had to smile. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shared his pleasure, but for her it wasn’t simple pleasure, for there was pain and fear in it too. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The answer she got was simple: it directed her to a certain room in the tall square building behind her. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cannot concentrate on schoolwork or simple conversations or Frau Elenas chores. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Witch planes can be anything: a wooden basin, a clay pot, a simple hat. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

This time, he was accompanied by a Yiddish-speaking officer who translated him word for word, even the simple questions. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mom's always saying, Some people are just simple. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“You took a simple gesture as an excuse to humiliate me. Do you have some delusional notion that you have a right to me?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I kept smiling, trying to act casual, giving simple yes or no answers and saying I was fine. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Like all of his schemes it would be cunningly simple and wickedly brilliant. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But best of all, I think, is the simple advice given by the style book of a national newspaper: that punctuation is “a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling”. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

They asked for the simplest of things: love, health, and money. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped the language of chivalry, falling into the simple tongue. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just a simple working man. I’m not even a man. I’m just a kid who wanted to make enough money this summer to buy a new inner tube for his bike.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh sure, sure. Just have the butler call me in the morning. It’s all just too, too simple for me to bother about before my beauty nap.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The children gave him the same simple obedience that they had given to the men with megaphones. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Manet started small, teaching me simple formulae of the sort required for twice-tough glass and heat funnels. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The language was simple and she was making quick work of it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

At the farm, I wore the simple blue overalls that were the uniform of the black male servant. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Funny how my brain wants to make things complicated and his just cuts to the simplest thing. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was simple and fitting, but there was more. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Just in case,” she said, slipping in their simple food of rice wrapped up in leaves and salted boiled eggs. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It is simple to fall down, but the going up requires much giving.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If simple folk are free from care and fear, simple they will be, and we must be secret to keep them so. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The skirt of yucca fibers was simple to make. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The small glimmer of hope he had held that she might be mistaken is crushed in three simple words. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You could kill yourself doing something as simple as that.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s not a simple thing to forgive such a huge betrayal. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though Copernicus’s system didn’t agree with the data completely—the circular orbits were wrong, though the heliocentric idea was correct—it was much simpler than the Ptolemaic system. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

For all the requirements I’ve made up in my head, I can’t wrap my mind around how simple it is to compete in the pageant and how many girls are actually eligible. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the simple fact of seeing her there at work would deter the women who hoped to drive her away. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout my time at the Clinic he had kept Chapter Eleven apprised of the situation in only the simplest terms. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

An extended possibility is to create a story, miming movements that reflect a steady beat while telling a simple narrative. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Baby liked it here; life was slower and simpler. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I was only joking. I think it’s a process. It’s not simple, you know ? I don’t know if there will be a time when I can say that it’s worked. That I’m better.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your son has been charged with simple battery and a petty misdemeanor. His sentence is thirty days in detention or full payment of the fine, which is three hundred dollars.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Fraudulent Medical Treatments Medicine is a fertile area for pseudoscientific claims for a simple reason. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But the simplest reason is the least satisfying one, I suppose. The truth is this: I wasn’t living in a story.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was nothing I could do for her beyond these simple gestures. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Negra’s explanation was simple: “She was always jealous of his hair. Popcorn had the best hair in the neighborhood and that girl was shallow. So shallow, I’ve stepped in deeper puddles.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

They were fairly simple, and I had no difficulty. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Alice Paul recognized the power of the simple phrase, and she often used it in her lobbying campaigns. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Now the blind man stitched the simple things that he and Matty needed. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I both loved and hated being in the South, for the simple reason that it was so different from what I knew. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There is no simple rule: one has to examine each case on its merits. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Trolls who had been taught a few simple sentences by the goblins proceeded to destroy the hall as before. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, Mary Lou was forgotten as the girls fell into raptures about the simple pleasure of a real shower. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Danny’s brother’s bar mitzvah celebration, which I attended on a Monday morning during the third week in October, was a simple and unpretentious affair. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

There is, for example, the red planet Mars, with soaring volcanoes, great riff valleys, enormous planet-wide sandstorms, and, just possibly, some simple forms of life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Life in Clarkston was simple, and few from the outside world paid the town much attention, which suited the residents of Clarkston just fine. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Today, he’s wearing simple blue robes, but with his white dreadlocks tied back and his trimmed beard, he still looks annoyingly regal. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In theory, Serber explained, the design of the bomb could be very simple. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, it is easy to repulse the Pogrebin with simple hexes or Stupefying Charms. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a relatively simple problem—but it was fiendishly difficult to build a simple model. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Like the simplest of human tools—hammer, scythe, bellows, ladder, scissors—the function of the molecule can be entirely comprehended from its structure. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I have very simple orders,” the man said. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, they were harmless bulletins from the Swiss Army, written on a simple, commercial version of Enigma. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s simple reading comprehension. Read the paragraph and summarize, in a couple of sentences, what it was about. That’s it. It’s not rocket science.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was a simple way he could do that, and it involved nothing more complicated than a pair of scissors. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe it could be over, simple as that. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t know where a simple bow and arrow could possibly find a place in all this high-tech equipment, but then we come upon a wall of deadly archery weapons. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I’m not religious but I get the feeling that it’s the simplest rituals, the ones that are integrated with the earth and its seasons, that are the most profound. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He is—” she began, about to tell Westley’s story, but that was not for her to repeat—“a simple sailor and I have known him since I was a child. Will you arrange that?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the simplest trick in the world. I’ll fight you for it.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

But in a moment of looking, his face regained all the lines the simple pleasures of the day had slowly smoothed away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“How simple that makes it. Now translate that into English, Master.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you smelled it when you came in. “In the old days it was simple. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a simple sleeveless dress with a round collar and an A-line skirt. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He built a separate home for himself—smaller, simpler, and infinitely more humble, but comfortable all the same. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I give myself a series of simple commands to follow, like "Now you have to sit up, Katniss. Now you have to drink water, Katniss." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

"Sometimes things aren't as simple as they teach you in school." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Even the simple chore of buying milk was new to me; in London we’d had bottles delivered each morning to our door. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The music education methods of Orff, Dalcroze, Kodály, etc., offer easily implemented solutions to add layers of cognitively challenging musical activities to something as simple as a song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The same goes for Japanese flower arranging ikebana, where a single flower in a simple vase succinctly expresses the nature of Japanese aesthetics and worldview. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In being man-made — by ingenious laboratory manipulation of the molecules, substituting atoms, altering their arrangement — they differ sharply from the simpler insecticides of prewar days. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

On top of this stain there was the torture of knowing that Arthur was kind, simple and upright—of knowing that he was always on the edge of hurting Arthur dreadfully, although he loved him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I could not make out Young’s personality; whenever I asked him a simple question, he looked off and stammered a confused answer. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Powell’s job should be as simple as sneaking into the Seward home, shooting the sleeping secretary in his bed, then galloping away to join Booth for a life of sunshine and easy living in Mexico. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

How could nature be governed by ratios and proportions when something as simple as a square can confound the language of ratios? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

‘You can’t help out a friend? Maybe cut bandages? Bring me a soda or a snack? Or just a simple How’s it going, Willf You don’t think I could stand to see a friendly face?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In reality, the machine was set up right on the ground, as simple as you please. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

A simple measure of this is to count books in which Newton’s name appears in the title: the peak period clearly runs from 1715 to 1745. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The faith itself was simple: he believed in the dignity of man. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a little dangerous, because even a simple question could bring on a half-hour explanation. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mine was simple: a “KK” with a circle around it, standing for Kid Kupid, an alter ego I assumed to advertise my largely imaginary prowess with the young ladies. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He's in a simple black shirt and pants. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

What I feel is not one simple thing. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the meal, he talks nonstop about ancient Italy and the Italians’ love for clean, simple cooking, which means my project and this boy are forgotten. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Belief in the necessary or even probable significance of coincidences is a psychological remnant of our simpler past. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The engine is simple because, like Papin’s first steam engine of 1690, it consists of a single cylinder powered by atmospheric pressure only. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

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

Ripley-Grier appears to just be an office building, just a simple office building. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time, refined folk always used I shall or we shall to refer to the simple future, not I will or we will. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paperweight on his desk, for instance, was not a simple, inert rock but a tiny priapus carved from stone. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His eyes roamed over my face, as if his question was something more than simple courtesy. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

That seems simple enough, but it misses out on all the things that crisscrossed it, like the eagles, and the secrets, and Ray’s injuries. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

His motivation was simple: Venus was a problem for both the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems because, according to both theories, its distance from the Earth varied greatly. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Again, the Chathams and the atolls had the simplest, most egalitarian societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

To her way of thinking, they were a team, pure and simple, and she gave without counting the cost. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I had an empty heat-eater ready for just such an emergency. Fire is the simplest of troubles I have prepared for.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The longer he lived, the more Tyrion realized that nothing was simple and little was true. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was simple to keep track of them because they were always moving south. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Transcribing the oral number system into written form was a simple task: people just needed to figure out a coding method whereby scribes could set the numbers down in a more permanent form. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Here, on the borders of death, life follows an amazingly simple course, it is limited to what is most necessary, all else lies buried in gloomy sleep;—in that besides our primitiveness and our survival. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

On others, it may arise and die out, or never evolve beyond its simplest forms. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he could express himself only in the simplest of words, like a child. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He would have died before he would have let anyone guess he was so simple, but Aunt Lome knew. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

June had been so happy, and it was such a simple thing, those little cartoon whales. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Instead of trying to decipher which of the men are to be trusted and which are not, I have made it simple for myself: Trust no one. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He was a simple Presence, an all-embracing tenderness with strength and a promise of rest. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now it’s just a simple matter of. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

"Wouldn’t it be simpler if we went ourselves?" said Maxim. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The starkness of the paradox is reinforced by the diction and meter: short, simple words, a stressed monosyllable followed by six iambic feet* Most people are never going to die. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

If that sounds simple, it’s simple like a mountain is simple. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was the safe, simple route to what I wanted. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Minstrels projected a greatly romanticized and exaggerated image of black life on plantations with cheerful, simple, grinning slaves always ready to sing, dance, and please their masters. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A story was direct and simple, allowing nothing to come between herself and her reader—no intermediaries with their private ambitions or incompetence, no pressures of time, no limits on resources. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

What a simple question to break my heart. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

As far as I was concerned, it was a simple enough matter: one used good polish, and one supervised closely. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

A very simple numerical principle that’s sometimes of use in accounting for the certainty of a particular kind of coincidence is illustrated by the mailman who has twenty-one letters to distribute among twenty mailboxes. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the simplest finesse, Dennis Hoagland lesson number one, and only effective with virginals like Wen, who would never imagine anything beyond a simple polarity to the world. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a simple lock, the sort you could commission from any common blacksmith. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But her simple and profound answer helped me to understand that ubuntu was not simply a word. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I feel like I have figured something out here, something important, something that I thought was hard but turns out to be pretty simple. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, it is hard to imagine a still simpler organism that is in any sense alive. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dreamed of it like a lover, with a simple longing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I breathed deep every time we stopped at a job site, smelling the fresh-cut grass, and thought back to how simple and pure my life had been when I mowed lawns as a summer job. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell coming off my flesh had gone from simple stinkiness to something weird and almost appetizing, close to sour-cream-and- onion potato chips. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I said I thought my case was pretty simple. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

At its simplest, a wind tunnel was a big box attached to a big fan. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The simple but elegant wedding took place at the home of Jimmy’s eldest sister, Helen. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The most fundamental such distinction is that states are organized on political and territorial lines, not on the kinship lines that defined bands, tribes, and simple chiefdoms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sound lifted up to the skies in a way that filled me with a simple sadness. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

There it was—just as simple as that. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And he said that the reason I was a beneficiary of affirmative action was simple: I was a Chicano. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The latter notion—statistical testing of hypotheses—is simple in principle. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice carried through the room, and Reg’s words, simple and straightforward, captivated them. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Initial reports tied Mr. Aziz to a terrorist splinter group, but the FBI now is now calling it a simple case of mistaken identity. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Hobbes stripped the human personality for any capacity for love or tenderness or even simple fellow- feeling, leaving instead only fear. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“The big one’s simple. They’re a family of beggars. Where do you want to go, children?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The answer is unbelievably simple: look it up. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He was given a few more simple sums which he did in his head. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also said that this was not just a human gift, that everything on the face of the earth had a soul, whether mineral, vegetable, or animal—or even just a simple thought. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then it would be such a simple matter to set down my findings and lean back comfortably with a fine sense of having discovered truths and taught them to my readers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the more I thought about it the less simple it became. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The way is simple: Consecrate your life to God. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

John Gottman took a complex problem and reduced it to its simplest elements: even the most complicated of relationships and problems, he showed, have an identifiable underlying pattern. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I see my face in hers, my mother’s face in hers—so small, simple, and pretty. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was a simple fact known even to children that to anger a king, even one so good as King Hamlet could mean death. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Knight’s condition, though, was more serious than simple perplexity. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every night she would set out the same kind of snare, a simple loop knot that someone had taught her long ago. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

This, too, was unfortunately no more than the simple truth. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of that is behind us now, and yet a simple truth remains: People have to die. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They had just wanted her to laugh—such a simple thing and so hard to find out. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the simple truth is that it is both, and that the scientists are right to claim that this artificial enterprise can discover what happens in nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The Nazi spies in South America might be using relatively simple codes and ciphers, but reading their messages still required focus and care. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

No one said much as they made a simple camp and ate a dinner of packaged food brought up from the Asheville factories. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I considered going out the back door and climbing in my bedroom window like a burglar, but it seemed simpler to wait and see if Daddy would leave too. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To show you one of life’s simple lessons,” the alchemist answered. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had an idea, a very simple one, and he kept looking up to see if the dog was still there. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe all of life was about rearranging a few simple ideas. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone who worked at PIH knew that a simple “epi” map—based on what makes people sick and what kills them, and in what numbers and at what ages—could be coded in two colors. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

At first, one triplet seemed to overlap with another—making the prospect of a simple code impossible. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Suddenly his world was very small and very simple: a brick wall behind him, a row of scowling faces in front of him. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But if you want to fly with the best, you’ll fly with the Corps, simple as that.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a lie, of course, even as the simpler word “secretary” was a lie, but Ruth repeated it with confidence because she believed it was true. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He presses a key, and I hear a mix of keyboard and drums that’s simple but catchy. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Two Theoretical Results A large part of the attraction of probability theory is the immediacy and intuitive appeal of its practical problems and of the simple principles which enable us to solve many of them. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mira, Pilar. I’m asking you as a favor. You could paint something simple, something elegant. Like the Statue of Liberty. Is that too much to ask?” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walt installs a memorial just inside the door, a simple brass plaque inscribed with a few words. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t pick up any clues as to where I have to go, but I think it must be simpler than this. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Most listeners will quickly grasp the form of a short and simple piece, or of one built from many short repetitions. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

And so this simple question about whether or not my dad still makes beats tightened the skin around my bones. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Such a simple spell, but it knocked Xan to her knees. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

But often a small and simple question can help chisel away at the biggest problems. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I know a shortcut,” Bekhir said, and he drew a simple map in the dirt with his shoe. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

What, then, makes it permissible for them to say ‘Hobbes was right’? The answer is simple. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My tasks were simple but many; I milked the cow under her supervision, gathered eggs, swept, and was through in time to serve breakfast. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The newsies always call what we do magic, but Maman said the word is too simple an explanation for the arcana. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Wondering, in the simple way of the profoundly shocked, What happened to the doghouse? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You needn’t feel wicked, my child! You had no winter things and got the simplest with your own hard earnings,” said Mrs. March with a look that warmed Jo’s heart. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stella stopped and watched, then looked to the heavens and gave a simple prayer of thanks. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

If a command was too complex, the game’s simple parsing engine wouldn’t be able to understand it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then the colonists traded their sugar for English fabrics, clothes, and simple manufactured goods, or they took their rum directly to Africa to buy slaves—to sell to the sugar islands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“We must be ready to march. We must be ready to go to jail by the thousands....Our cry to the state of Alabama is a simple one. Give us the ballot!” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

But maybe after she learned how to write these simple tunes fairly quick she could begin to put down the whole music in her mind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

So the conventional wisdom in Galbraith’s view must be simple, convenient, comfortable, and comforting—though not necessarily true. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The world was simpler when I had a lord commander to decide such matters, Selmy reflected. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“There is a way, and a simple spell’s all you need. Just —” But Harry held up a hand to silence him, his heart suddenly pounding as though it would burst. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I want you to be happy, I want that more than I want happiness for myself, does that sound simple? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He would marry her only if she agreed to allow him to execute a simple abortion. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The result looks like a Bauhaus chair for the simple reason that it is a chair made from the simplest of geometrical forms. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was a simple matter of choice, predilection, and a passing grade. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there’s one thing I knew about Gina it was that she didn’t like simple answers. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I planned a simple Sunday night dinner and bought the food at my local Whole Foods supermarket. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

There are no patterns on the bedspreads; they are simple, tasteful shades of blue or brown. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It has erased all but the great tree trunks, making my mountaintop home as simple as it was when I first came here more than two years ago. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more he studied this simple dream the less he could understand. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was far from perfect, and we could easily be foiled by something as simple as the rain. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now then, kids, here’s the deal: Solve one simple picture puzzle and you four win the five library cards in the bowl.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Walter withstood a barrage of hostile questions and rose above Yutar’s petty machinations to explain our policy in clear and simple terms. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was said to be a diamond, but there was a darkness in its core that made it different from a simple diamond ring. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Nelson was puzzled by my failure to understand such a simple thing. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The simple acts of everyday life, however, were closely connected with them and gained dignity from them as was not the case with any of the Greek gods except Demeter and Dionysus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my head I say, Sparrow, how come you can’t even carry on this simple conversation? Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Neither she, nor Dr. Gazzaley, believed their findings should be taken to mean that the simple act of playing a video game improves the brain, or, specifically, the attention networks. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I draw the things in my cage, simple items that fill my days: an apple core, a banana peel, a candy wrapper. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She had a sweet, simple face and dark, thick hair held back with bobby pins. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meals provided by Min’s wife were simple, but they never failed to delight his friend, who opened the gourd parcel each evening as if it were a gift of royal jewels. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The card said something pretty simple: “To be spent on printing Punk Rocky in color next time.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I still remember the simple question he asked me not long after I started in his class. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But her eyes were full of something more than simple desire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He looks the same as always, simple clothes, short brown hair, just a hint of gold eyeliner. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, ancient Japanese pottery was technologically simple by today’s standards. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Any rhyme can be made more complex by adding a body percussion pattern or simple instrument pattern. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

With the clue that Matt had opened a barbershop somewhere in the Bronx, it was a simple matter to find him. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the early history of our planet, however, when enormous amounts of organic molecules were being produced by sunlight in a hydrogen-rich atmosphere, very simple, nonparasitic organisms had a fighting chance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, she had a soft spot for anyone who was seeking knowledge—even about something as simple as Chinese handcuffs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know what a communist is? Such a simple thing. Everyone knows. It’s common knowledge. You don’t... Bah. I don’t know why I’m surprised.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure if my face betrayed my shock, but I returned to gazing at the simple, ancient cross, just in case. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was a simple plan, a terrible one. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

But the space suits have to be portable, so they use a simple chemical absorption process with expendable filters. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In doing so, she was forced to turn right at every turn, and the simple laws of physics and geometry ensured that eventually she found the exit. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“A few simple questions, Sam, nothing serious. Let's start with who was in the car with you.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

And I realize then that it’s all very simple, so very simple. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned the frog onto its back and touched the shredded leg, meaning to arrange it in a way that would make the amputation simple and fast. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“We were just leaning there for a rest. We’re only simple healers.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was a simple attempt to scare me off. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The woman, dressed in a simple green calico dress and a bonnet to match, was standing in front of the house and waving to them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he says anything at all, even a simple thing about a car or a plumbing repair, it tends to come out like this—in terms that can be interpreted as sacred. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And every time something simple would slip his mind, Cynthia would have to come over to help. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Older children appreciate and are capable of singing complex songs, particularly those that include multiple parts and simple harmony. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And how did a simple tennis game lead to all those people being attacked and run out of Lambert? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It is a simple creature, ten inches long, comprising a rubbery spout and a venom sac. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The damage proved great because the homes in my neighborhood sat side by side or faced each other and had simple wooden foundations. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In both instances, I’d reveled in the soft air on my skin and the simple buoyancy I felt anytime I got close to the ocean. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t even do the first simple equation. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Put the other way round, our attention would have been held even more effectively had there been an underlying pull of simple narrative. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

One of the red-robed justices—Justice Engert—asks the boys simple questions—name, birth date, residence, occupation—and then reviews the charges against each boy. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

If there was a single group in America that Bull had difficulty with over the simplest forms of address, a group as mysterious to him as children, it was southern blacks. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew: that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She smiled knowingly, and I believe she understood just what we were thinking—perhaps she was amused at how we puzzled over her simple appearance. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

First, there was no disputing the importance of the discoveries in the New World, for the simple reason that they had become matters of state, the concern of kings. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was simpler once the food came and they could eat instead of talk. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A simpler model, however, was proposed in 1514 by a Polish priest, Nicholas Copernicus. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This victory was the combined result of our own unceasing protests and simple logistics. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam could already read simple words, but he was too young to play. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Silly songs and rhymes with interesting onomatopoeic sounds and simple, repetitive words are also highly useful, such as “Galumph Went the Little Green Frog” and “Jelly in a Bowl.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It was a square gray box with rectangular controllers that featured a few simple buttons. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Old were sitting quietly, some visiting and talking with one another, others doing handwork and simple crafts. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

However, from the color of his rays she knew at a glance whether he was hatching a swindle, and she could defuse one of his tantrums with a few simple, mocking words. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not when you’re sure of your longitude. Just a simple matter of mathematics. You...” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Benedict had wondered how the hidden messages could be so simple and yet have such profound effects. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

By simple movements—a look here, a redirection there—he plays to the reptilian parts of our brain that can’t resist novelty, maybe important stimulation. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But it turns on a very simple fact, the same fact that runs through the tangled history of Harlan and the Michigan students. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

This sounds very simple, but its psychological effects are incalculable. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They can be demonstrated by simple mathematics, mainly first-year algebra and therefore understandable to any educated person. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shelter, a simple wooden affair, open on one side, stood in a snowy glade—a little winter wonderland—150 yards or so off the main trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

From simple things like tasting the weird foods first, to being in the front when they were walking through the woods. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In simplest terms, what the equation says is that mass and energy have an equivalence. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Before I knew it, November had rolled around, and that first Saturday, Doc set me and Jay to work making simple oils for him to sell in his shop. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He shrugs and raises his palms like he just said the simplest yet most brilliant thing in the world. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I tell myself it’s a simple invitation to a birthday party, not a date. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though untrained as an architect, he came up with a design that was simple, memorable, and archetypal. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Beadle had a simpler theory: maize was directly descended from teosinte. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As long as he lived, as long as she returned, Mr. Fred would be here with his . . . simple welcome. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I stared at him and his simple, uncomplicated brown hair. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

A simple trick of distracting his attention long enough to slip out through the hall, despite the lingering temptation to stay. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Ending her day in Scenes from Darkest Africa never failed to cast her into a river of calm, the simple theater becoming more than theater, a genuine refuge. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In that week, Laila came to believe that of all the hardships a person had to face none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was a simple children’s toy, a rough carving that just hinted at four legs and a head, but it was smooth and dark like it had been played with. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The building was simple—walls built from mud bricks and straw, a roof made of wood beams and clay. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

This VPN allows us to share the feed from the microphone, images from the session, the real-time script, and all the animation designs amongst all the locations with a simple log-in. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“But I’m trying to be realistic about this. It isn’t that simple, is what I’m saying. There are all these other things.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

About two inches square, each card has a simple black-and-white line drawing and the word or phrase printed along the top. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s based on a simple proposition: Our day-to-day reality is based on what we see and hear with what we experience. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem possible that something so simple could’ve had such a profound effect on my cardiovascular system, but my heart never slowed its pace. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Often I tried to talk to him, tried in simple words to convey to him some of my ideas, and he would listen in sullen silence. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a simple way to show this. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave me three vases in exchange for a gnomish copper stewpot, and the same for a simple wooden flute. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s so simple, I can’t understand why someone hasn’t tried it. . . Why don’t you line up what we need?” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But we are still left with the question of how small, simple societies actually evolve or amalgamate into large, complex ones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A gold ring so delicate, so simple, that it must have been worn by a good woman. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

For a moment Clara ceased to be a distracted angel and came to stand beside a simple mortal who suffered, at fourteen, the first torments of love. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had always been so simple at home. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is not so simple,” the goddess said. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And it was a simple matter to find four of them about the same length and pull them together. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was too simple, and yet they had already opened up a new section of reality for me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

An infinitive is a verb in its simplest form, right out of the box. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scale is a simple measure of force, but says nothing about damage. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

When I write the first words Wings of a butterfly whisper . . . no one believes a whole book could ever come from something as simple as butterflies that don't even, my brother says, live that long. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

As you can see, mortar is a simpler and more reliable route for holding bricks together. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Never wanted to grit my teeth against the pain of leaning down to do something as simple stupid as tying my own darn shoe. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Best to keep my background as simple as possible. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was black and very simple, its face showing only a digital display of the time. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Personal uses of writing by nonprofessionals came only much later, as writing systems grew simpler and more expressive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jeremy and Hannah’s children will grow up to love others in the simple and uncomplicated way of people who have always known where love comes from, and aren’t afraid of its loss. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily, it’s all too simple to decide whether all is singular or plural. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, there was now a desk—which Victor had dragged down from the attic with a great deal of cursing and swearing—together with a few simple chairs and a large candelabra. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most important* relationships, and damage another. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They look small there, too simple for this luxurious room. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was made to see that contrary to what I thought, everything was very simple: the guillotine is on the same level as the man approaching it. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

All these simple machines provide a mechanical advantage in moving a load. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“To yourself or to Javier. I’m sure you’ll have to talk to him about these things, but if he truly cares about you, he’ll accept you for who you are. It’s that simple.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Not by the water itself, but by the sheer power to be able to make it flow, and make it stop with the simple flick of the wrist. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and tried to believe that this simple act could bring the miracle my parents prayed for. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Trump has said he would focus on deporting immigrants with a record, but that could translate to a single DUI or a simple misdemeanor. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

And when somebody gives you directions, it’s simple: “Climb the hill and the village is down below.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a simple, moody piece that sounded more difficult than it was. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s simple cursive, and reads, Happy Birthday, Mom! I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The idea was simple and appealing, but not easy to prove. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“We must get through the Fire Swamp,” Westley began, “for one good and simple reason.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s try some simple spellbooks, then,” said Harry, throwing aside Men Who Love Dragons Too Much. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I wondered how to explain it and went with the simple: “I want to talk to Bat Lady.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

But I decide to be simple and honest. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Scruggs would go along on one of the helicopter rides to a nearby village to provide sanitation measures and simple medical care. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The idea behind the gun was simple: if I held one trigger down, nitrogen gas would squirt out the two holes, or jets, in the crossbar. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It shows two girls in niqab, vlogging, accompanied by really simple, ugly white doodles and words scratched on top of almost every image. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Obinze looked at him for a moment, his open face, his simple view of the world; deportations happened every day and the living went on living. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

So I tell him about my life at the convent, its simple routines and pleasures. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It was such a small and simple gesture, but it filled him then with a wondering softness. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

A union button was pinned to the collar of her simple green dress. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I ain’t trying to take over your idea, I just... I like to keep things simple, you know?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“We shall get you one, then,” Victor says, as though this is as simple a thing as picking up a newspaper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then we finished the outfit with a pair of simple black pants, suede square-toed shoes, and a cream-white knitted sweater. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew, however, that Chicago was still 38 votes shy of the simple majority needed to win the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Not really so simple, Moll,” he says with exaggerated reasonableness. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I reached over and took her hand as I offered a simple smile of gratitude. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“I fail to understand,” he said, “why it would take six months for someone to inform me of that simple fact.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew at exactly what point their faces would fall when my seemingly simple and childlike strategy would reveal itself as a devastating and irrevocable course. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It began with a simple morning workout on a horse whose name has long since been forgotten. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was so plainly dressed, so gentle and patient of his simple things. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I love how simple this is for her. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I have to look up even simple words in the dictionary now and it makes me angry with myself. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The little professor stands at the chalkboard drawing a wiring schematic for a simple Morse-code practice circuit. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And anyway this girl was no raver, hair pulled back into a simple ponytail, barely any makeup, certainly no piercings I could see. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The fight was finally settled in 1879 with the simple expedient of coming up with a new period, the Ordovician, to be inserted between the two. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

A protein is created from twenty simple chemicals named amino acids—Methionine, Glycine, Leucine, and so forth—strung together in a chain. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

These were the actions I expected a simple woman distracted by grief might display. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It’s not as simple as it seems, because making the deaths on either side of the equation comparably frightful takes enormous skill. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It was the oldest building they’d seen: a simple battlemented tower four stories high. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her legs dangled in the air, bare feet relaxed, a simple white dress flowing around her calves. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

‘Of course, of course! Absurdly simple, like most riddles when you see the answer.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A pair of simple sandals, the na 7, left the ankle-bones bare. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope that I’ve just had a simple artists bout of craziness and then a lot of fever” because of the wound. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

This puzzling question of their origins was posed to me 25 years ago in a simple, personal form. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Things would be a whole lot simpler if I could just build a wall around me like he does. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She rolled her eyes and gave a sigh, like she was disgusted to have to explain something so simple. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It was as simple as that. If this chota came around to see me, I’d tell him to go share a piece of hell with the state engineer’s idiots.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second line of this poem by Langston Hughes, "Theme for English B," goes on to ask: "I wonder if it's that simple?" Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What horror could a simple fire hold for me now? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the simpler case of lexical ambiguity, an individual word has two meanings, as in the headlines Safety Experts Say School Bus Passengers Should Be Belted and New Vaccine May Contain Rabies. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

After the animals had been tended to, the riders shared a simple supper of salt pork and cold white beans, washed down with ale. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For the people, it was that simple, and when they failed, the humiliation fell on all of them; what happened to the girl did not happen to her alone, it happened to all of them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The problem I faced seemed a much simpler one. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the overseer drew simple, unconflicting emotions of hatred and fear when he appeared briefly. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

One simple way to think about how much had changed, how much power had come to personal communications, is illustrated by a simple comparison. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg was no expert, but on its surface the conflict there looked simple. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The beat was simple enough, but he didn’t try the slide-hopping. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

But this is simple good manners anywhere in the world. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were to be simple, straight staves with crosspieces at the top to fit under Robin’s arms. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

It is a relatively simple proposition to keep a movement together when you are fighting against a common enemy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t wait to share her simple philosophy with my students that they too can make a difference—like Anne or Zlata. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When your life has had few events to occupy it, it’s amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The idea that a simple answer was preferable had no appeal to Pirie, who knew that viruses were too large to have well-defined structures. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It was one simple word, spoken softly, but at once every woman in the circle obeyed, getting to their feet. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

From across the street, he watched the cars drive by the manned security gate—a simple red-and-white metal arm, operated by one guard in a wooden kiosk. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

"That's what my professor says. But doesn't that make it too simple?" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

With Richardson’s curve and the simplest extrapolation for the future growth of the human population, the two curves do not intersect until the thirtieth century or so, and Doomsday is deferred. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not believe there are many simple things in Faerie. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her love was too fierce and simple, and she had no talent for argument. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

With husband and children now far away, her living space shrunk from a spacious house to a single room, her suitcase now her closet, Dorothy’s daily existence was reduced to its simplest elements. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He has, he says, three simple rules that guide his every action: “Take care of the customer. Take care of the customer. Take care of the customer.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Compared to Isaac’s nuggets, my cheeseburger is a fairly simple food product. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Most people still lived in simple huts with dirt floors, with no electricity and no running water. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She crossed her eyes, and even though it was simple and a little stupid, he laughed. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The way I had erred was simple but utterly unbelievable. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

About two hundred yards from the jetty, along a narrow dusty road, stood a simple wooden hotel painted white. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She chose a simple dress of dark grey wool, plainly cut but richly embroidered around the collar and sleeves. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Figure 5.33: Much Western music is harmonically pretty simple, so it can be very useful just to know I, IV, and V in your favorite keys. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Hobbes stripped the human personality for any capacity for love or tenderness or even simple fellow- feeling, leaving instead only fear. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

There’s a nagging feeling that if it’s too simple, I must be missing the point. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Once Luke could scratch out his name and read short, simple phrases, Mother turned to math. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Everything was simpler when they were just three kids being best friends. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was just a simple earthquake and everything will be okay. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The Moriori were a small, isolated population of hunter-gatherers, equipped with only the simplest technology and weapons, entirely inexperienced at war, and lacking strong leadership or organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just asking a simple question,” Piper says. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

His answer is to fight, not to think; to fight, pure and simple. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were fairly simple—there had to be at least two full walls, plus part of a third, even though Babulya always insisted on four full walls. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

My original plan had been a simple one—I’d hide behind this statue until afternoon classes had started, then make my way to the sky garden to meet up with Tao. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

How could a simple beep be so frustrating? We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He has a wonderfully clear and simple outlook on life and is extremely comforting to be around. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This simple design has helped to produce one of the most extraordinary systems of racialized social control the world has ever seen. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Before the day was half done, I managed to pipe out his simple song. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She plays it again and again, each time adding a new variation that makes the tune more complex, until the original simple melody is barely audible beneath the trills and chords on top of it. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I had long argued that Communist literature was, for the most part, dull, esoteric, and Western-centered, but ought to be simple, clear, and relevant to the African masses. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It used to always be so simple, it was just the two of them and they could make shacks into palaces. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

To make a thing as simple as an apple pie, you have to create the whole wide world. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

‘Oh, it’s all very simple this year. You’re a Chicano. And I am a Jew. That’s really the only difference between us.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A simple question, but it always threw her. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Neither had ever performed this simple maneuver, on land let alone in water, and it struck them at the same moment that there was room for error. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

That's when my own simple deduction is confirmed—because, on closer inspection, I can see Garrett’s bike behind a dead hedge near the front door. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Please, can we stay with one issue at a time? I asked a simple question,” I say. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I follow this with Aibileen’s own stories, just as she wrote them, simple, straightforward. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She even sent him a few new sets of clothes—simple, undyed cotton pants and shirts that she must have made on her loom. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Her mother translated into simpler English, "What car was the man driving, Carla?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Even his thoughts became sharper, and things were simple and uncomplicated—he could solve math problems when he ran or memorize football play patterns. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly he began to draw more diagrams to show me how simple the problem was. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Fundamentally it is a very simple kind of gambling, on the lines of “Odds or Evens.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a simple matter of walking straight through the apparently solid barrier dividing platforms nine and ten. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And then the solution hit him, so ridiculously simple that he laughed out loud. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was locked, of course, but she had a hairpin, and the lock was simple. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you help Corey with the fondant. He’s cutting out moons and stars, so super simple, but there are a million of them.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

We were decades, still, from a time when a simple Google search would bring up a head-spinning array of charts, statistics, and medical explainers that either gave or took away hope. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I have suffered a great loss. I am most grateful for your aid,” I say, fixing my eyes on the simple cross on her breast. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A simple cipher might replace every letter with a number, so that A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, and so on. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She wore a simple white dress, but when she moved, the fabric shimmered with colors like oil on water. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It would be simpler, he said, to have everybody enrolled under the same last name. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Washing-up day on the island was a simple process, and everyone loved it. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Felix had been feeling guilty about ignoring Benji on day one of tryouts and could not say no to this simple request. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help thinking about my mother and father—that maybe as simple as Mr. Pignati was, he knew something about love and having fun that other people didn’t. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

But the essence of life is not so much the atoms and simple molecules that make us up as the way in which they are put together. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked up a slight hill, following a simple map Chestnutt had drawn on a scrap of paper. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We tend to think of children’s songs as simple, and in some ways, they are in terms of lyrics, structure, and music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Making them also takes effort, so I know she’s trying to impress Kareem’s family, even though I overheard her assuring Salma Auntie that she was only preparing a “simple home meal.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It was absolutely riveting to watch the simple activities of people out in the world: old men sitting in the sun, women doing their shopping, people walking their dogs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The raft was a ten-foot square of logs lashed together with a pole for a mast and a simple white linen sail. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I remember Ms. Saintima telling us many weeks ago that writing poetry could begin with something as simple as coming up with some words to describe your feelings. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Her thick brown hair was topped with “the simplest kind of hat anyone could wear in those days.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He liked the easygoing camaraderie of it, the simple, stark maleness of it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She didn’t yet have the drafting skills to make an architectural drawing, but instead submitted simple sketches and pastel drawings, along with a written description. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I decide that after about the age of three, life is not simple. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

A globe-shaped lantern hung from a hook on the central pole, and the floor of the tent was covered with a simple canvas cloth on which a red-and-brown rug had been laid. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a simple invocation of hope, a call to persist. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

One simple word has wiped five years from her face. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

She should just write a short and simple letter, letting them know where and how she was. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Like Papi over the simple things of life, I bow my head. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The simplest would be to harden her heart. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I could not at the moment recall Enoch’s appositeness; so I had to ask a simple question, though I felt that by so doing I was lowering myself in the eyes of the lunatic:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Adding numbers on an abacus is as simple as moving the stones up and down. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s not that simple. I have to go up to Stresa first.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“This naming is no simple business, I see.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“This was nothing but a kidnapping, pure and simple!” he said to the dozens of reporters and photographers who were following him into the terminal. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As Rasheed watched with anticipation, the way people wait the simple tricks of street magicians, Zalmai pulled on the TV’s wire, pushed the buttons, pressed his palms to the blank screen. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she would ask me simple questions, like what did I think the weather would be the next day, and stop whatever she was doing and wait for an answer. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s really very simple, isn’t it, Basil? How am I doing?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The point, she insisted, was simple: “You do not take children along to commit felonies.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It’s a piece of paper with a simple pen drawing. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Whenever she was asked what she saw within her fires, Melisandre would answer, “Much and more,” but seeing was never as simple as those words suggested. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I think of something simple to ask, something that won't set off any alarm bells. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

From time to time he looked through the open window at the inky Bengal night, at the vague shapes of palm trees and the simplest of homes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not the ordinary silence that came from a simple absence of things moving about and making noise. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But if it had been a few years ago, Matthew would have found a way to make something simple like that feel like a secret spy mission. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It arises from the fact that we could not solve the equations of the theory exactly, except in very simple situations. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a simple two-on-two, using the entire thing would have been illogical. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Her ceiling is ordinary, plain white with a simple, square glass light in the middle and two hooks, like upside-down question marks, holding nothing. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was quiet, maybe, but it wasn't simple. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He begged the doctors not to operate, even though they told him that it was a relatively simple procedure and cautioned him of the dangers involved in not operating. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She marveled at how valuable these simple things were, how beautiful and precious. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember,” Mrs. Johnson said, “when you shop for your audition dress, look for something very simple in dark colors.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The costume looks deceptively simple at first, just a fitted black jumpsuit that covers me from the neck down. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Too bad we can't just look it up. That would make things simple.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

After so long wearing simple cotton, this fabric felt smooth and light against my skin. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But fortunately a simple and logical explanation was handy. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was searching his mind for simple words so that even the littluns would understand what the assembly was about. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Alexander, in fact, has done a very simple calculation to demonstrate what would happen if the children of Baltimore went to school year-round. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He spoke passionately, using simple and clear language, and told the people what they wanted to hear. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

It is simpler for her, Catelyn thought with a pang of envy. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I could’ve been—in fact, would’ve preferred to have been—a coward who sent him a simple, unkind text message, telling him to leave me alone forever; but I’d wanted to do the right thing. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I keep it really simple and say the thing that I’ve been feeling ever since I first saw my face on that bulletin board: Is this for real? What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The only hints of modernization were a few simple computer interfaces in unobtrusive corners. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She answered him sincerely that she would never marry a man who was so simple that he had wasted almost an hour and even went without lunch just to see a woman taking a bath. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

We used a special-type tablecloth for dairy meals because you could clean it with a simple dishrag as opposed to washing it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He expects to be asked to look over the equipment, as usual, but there is none: no corpses, no transmitter, not even a simple listening set. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

This was our policy, but in practice, it was not so simple. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Violet, Klaus, and Sunny looked at one another and knew that it wasn’t as simple as Mr. Poe said. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

And he said, “OK, let’s keep it simple. What are you doing at the railway station?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It's the simple things in life that matter. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The question, the one we’ve all been asking since girls stopped being gross, the question that is too simple to be uncomplicated: Does she like me or like me? Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“The plan is simple,” Michelangelo said at last. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“He’s really sincere, he thinks there’s a war on,” said Finny in simple wonder. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would play after him, the simple scale, the simple chord, and then I just played some nonsense that sounded like a cat running up and down on top of garbage cans. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be one thing if America were a simple place with a simple story. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Anyway, removing the cells was simple, and the Hab can spare them. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The simplest was a three-by-three square, with the numbers 1 to 9 arranged so that every row, column and diagonal added up to 15. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’ve learned that the simplest explanation is usually the right one. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. I just am. It’s the simplest thing in the world.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

There is of course a legitimate concern about reducing complicated phenomena to simple numerical scales or statistics. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

During her long captivity, her gaolers had not oft bothered with even that simple courtesy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Perhaps there was something childish about all the paladins of Arthur’s story—if being simple b the same as childishness. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They make everything seem so simple when it’s so freaking complicated. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Ooh . . .” The plot of the film was extremely simple. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A simple intervention of Mother Nature, and they were saved, washed out to freedom and a new life Biblical-style? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He was less interested in prehistory and in simpler, nonliterate societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And, kneeling on the cold altar stone, it all seemed very simple. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

But mostly, she was a maid, a skivvy and, in her hours off, a crammer of simple facts. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“A’ight, now this is simple,” Lovey said to me, “Everybody who wants chicken can get a piece. Just make sure you save the drumsticks for the babies.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A simple word that said more than was intended. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Père Lafontant despised the concept because he knew what it meant in practical terms: the simplest technology was for the poor, while the rich had the resources to afford the best technology. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I could not refute the general Communist analysis of the world; the only drawback was that their world was just too simple for belief. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I was your age I could do simple division.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

"It was very simple. One day, Mr. Donatelli said, 'Billy, I think it's time.' That's all he said. 'Billy, I think it's time.'" The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“On a very simple level, one of the things we insist upon at my airline is that the first officer and the captain call each other by their first names,” Ratwatte said. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I was so good at denying myself this, the simple pleasure of even a secret crush, that the thoughts were never allowed to marinate in my mind. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The design was fairly simple, and the wood required was easily obtainable from the managed forest on the western side of the Protectorate. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Very simple, actually. I heal, and you rest. Anything beyond that is a conversation for a future date.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The altar was covered by a simple linen cloth; above it hung a plain wooden cross. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We arrive at a driveway, marked by a simple white post with an address. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Your job is a simple one: apprise Nicole’s teachers of her special needs. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“I never realized it would he so simple,” said the king, stroking his beard and smiling broadly. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now, in the face of the poor lady’s simple hope, he had lacked the courage to break her illusion with an immediate blow. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the desert, and nothing is out here but empty land and what looks like thousands of acres enclosed by a simple wooden fence. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I felt small in my little blue woolen jacket and pants and my simple brown cap. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She spoke about all of the injustices that one must go through for a simple label or belief. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I did the simple stitching and seam binding. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’s going to explain a theory using simple, clear terms. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tired of poor living and working conditions, they wanted a simple but drastic solution. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was so simple, I felt like an imbecile for not seeing it sooner. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He likens himself to “a simple worshipper of the eternal Buddha,” he tells both Theo and Gauguin. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The girl had mousy brown hair and a simple brown dress. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Olga is a petite middle-aged woman with silky black hair that touches her hips and a simple white rosary strung around her neck. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She is trying to regain enough strength to be able to do simple things, like eating with a knife and fork. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Even learning a few simple moves would help, if I practiced enough? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

But soon I found myself pouring the drinks, too, joking with him for no other reason but to share a simple pleasure. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As always, Grant’s battle plan is simple: Get in front of Lee. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She said I must have a wardrobe of linens and simple gowns suitable for my new position. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Similarly, simple African villagers who have never left their remote homes may not be particularly surprised by their first sight of an airplane: it is outside their comprehension. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see that part of Nino Carlitos is proud of how smart and accomplished his wife is, yet part wishes she would be a simple mother and housewife. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without eyes, even the simplest task was perilous. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I tried to convince myself this was detective work or simple curiosity, but really it was a mix of jealousy and payback, as if having information about them could make me more powerful. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The simplest thing to do is to find recordings of quality music and play songs with an even, steady beat and have children move, clap, tap, patsch, hit an instrument, or walk to that beat. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Because you’re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Contact the right people, and you could get hold of a special capsule, a simple pill guaranteed to take off all the weight you wanted. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was there time to teach Alexander a simple tune on the piano? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Yet transforming blackboard scribbles into a working device was not so simple a matter, as Szilard had understood. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

This is so simple a fact that it seems self-evident. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He'd stuck a Post-it on the front with a simple message—Plant this!—and the initial A4 hastily scrawled in the corner. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She could see the simple sentences, the accumulating telepathic symbols, unfurling at the nibs end. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

How could they be chopping through a statue with simple axes? Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In simplest terms, the sound waves of consonant notes "fit" together much better than the sound waves of dissonant notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Being of simple mind, Dana probably had thought only of his unexpected good fortune as the laundry basket was loaded into the laundry truck, which was then driven out the gates of the detention center. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So instead of quizzing his employer, he made a simple statement. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I longed for just a simple dandelion green. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the words he spoke were no great matters but had to do only with simple things, bread and water and weather and sleep. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking of a pattern, Jenny, a simple pattern.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it’s simple, frugal by the Capitol’s standards. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She did not think life was like that; she wanted life to be simple. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He asked a simple question: “Who are you?” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a simple question that went to the heart of life as Yali experienced it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It was just as simple as that. Now there is one hell of a woman. No wonder she got to be a madam. There is one hell of a woman.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the atolls, as on the Chathams, those artifacts were small, relatively simple, and individually produced and owned, while architecture consisted of nothing more than simple huts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It made me smile, the way they got along, the easy and affectionate way they talked to each other as if love between a father and a son was simple and uncomplicated. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Perhaps as a result of all this unfamiliarity, I yearned for some of the simple pleasures that I had known as a boy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With this simple calibration, the glasses should now be able to know my brain’s preferences and variations enough to sync up everything in Warcross to me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe I was fascinated by the fact that it seemed like white families, at least in comics, lived simple, easy lives. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It’s a simple Rose knot, something any worker would use. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He set his own words to the great classics and gave them simple names like “Lullaby” and “Serenade” and “Street Song” and “Song for a Sunshine Day.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was called frequency analysis, and it could crack simple messages wide open. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Thus our simple Ideas are clear, when they are such as the Objects themselves, from whence they were taken, did, in a well-ordered Sensation or Perception, present them… The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

After lunch, the class plodded through a spelling pretest, followed by a science work sheet on simple machines, but all George could think about was trying out for Charlotte. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z