Nixon carried forty-nine states, winning more than 60 percent of the vote to McGovern’s 37 percent. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In fact, the state that slaves called Lousy Anna was the very worst place for an African in America; it was the Caribbean all over again—a death sentence. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

After asking him to state his name for the record and establishing that he had previously appeared in court and testified against Walter McMillian, it was time to get to the heart of things. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

One month after the parade, she gathered a group of 531 women—two women from every state, plus one from each congressional district—and they walked the parade route in reverse. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I had come to love the state, even if despite all our work it was looking like we might not be able to win there. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A bird on one side, a man's profile on the other, united states of America, in god we trust, quarter dollar embossed on one side, and liberty and 1990 on the other. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

In the lucid freedom of his dream state, Turner intended to shoot the officer through the chest. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He led the Bronchos to their first, and only, state championship win over the Mustangs, 21-14. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in times of adversity, when the state needs its citizens, then few are to be found. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Not that ours was in a much better state. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

We attempted to prove his innocence through a motion for DNA testing, but because the state had destroyed the relevant biological evidence, the motion was denied. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Some states authorized the family members of the victim to sit at the prosecutor’s table during trial. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

What a miserable state for a girl of former beauty! Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In fact, I hate the idea of things being sold—uprooted from their natural homes, whisked off to some closet that’s in God- knows-what state of disorder. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he kin set back and look pious at the states that has been blowin’ hot and cold.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The average Lovelace fifth grader could not differentiate this from her normal state, but Hazel was attuned to these kinds of subtleties. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

After more than four years in court and dozens of prosecutors, thousands of documents and tens of thousands of pages of testi-mony, the state had failed in its mission. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you know California’s going to be a state,” said Rufus, “you must know some other things that are going to happen.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“There were a lot of people who didn’t think we had much of a chance to win District, let alone a state championship,” Hix told all those loyalists in the stands. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am shocked, Miss New Hampshire. You are a real Judas. When we get back, I intend to make a full report to the pageant officials and have you replaced with your state’s first runner-up.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He also states that “men, for the most part, do commit crimes when they can.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the album Dad’s ticket looks sort of lumpy and wrinkled because he’d crumpled it into a ball when the state trooper handed it to him. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Success in other states followed, with California, Kansas, Arizona, and Oregon passing laws in the next few years. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The police had blocked off the street; the crowd’s response to the speeches urging an end to the British mandate and the establishment of a Jewish state had been overwhelming. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The Black Hills were in the western part of the state. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, what can be done by those of us sickened by the state of apostrophe abuse? Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

I was still in my wound-up post-war state when I named her, and I think the name’s a little silly now. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Referring to each side’s state- supplied clothing, he told us, “It’s a gray thing and a green thing, and nothing more complicated than that.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The state had not produced a shred of evidence to suggest premeditation. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Every time I look at them, all I see in their eyes is fear and worry about the state of their practice and the state of our lives. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The Germans first stormed through the cities of the Soviet states of Belorussia and Ukraine. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Stop right there and state your business, fox,” Constance called gruffly. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

"I would have given anything to have their lives spared," he stated. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

This had caused trouble for dozens of places: some had been put off limits by the military; some had lost their state or city licenses. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gravity of all this had put us in a solemn state of mind. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

From 1932 through 1939, the lab’s overall staff shot up from ten to sixty, but the number of Rad Lab personnel paid out of state funds never exceeded ten. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Emptiness and disorder were the primeval, natural state of the cosmos, and there was always a nagging fear that at the end of time, disorder and void would reign once more. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Take a look at Gary Edwards’s grade in algebra II, state investigators were told over the phone. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

McMillan spoke to Governor David B. Hill, who asked the state legislature to consider whether electricity might somehow replace hanging. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is no exaggeration to say that after and because of Beethoven music approached the status of a religion, complete with gods and goddesses for worshipping, a state of affairs that persists to this day. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was after the catastrophe, when they shot the president and machine-gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of emergency. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I therefore waive the right to call witnesses. As I stated before, at the proper time I shall present a plea in Bigger Thomas’ behalf.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Calling her here might kill her, or turn her back to her natural state as a fierce monster. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She roams the house all the time in various states of undress, searching for a stray sock or ironing her scrubs. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The state dinner at which she appeared was the most select and glamorous social event of the Roosevelt years. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

No one wore their hair in its natural state either. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A state salary goes far in small-town New York—correction officers, after eight years, make nearly $40,000 and enjoy numerous job benefits. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He threw his arms out, announcing a state neither of them had been to with the sort of flair reserved for the circus and late-night infomercials. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

They toured the southern states early in the year, performed at cities in the Midwest and Northeast during the spring and summer, and also had invitations from Canada and the West Coast. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

One was a lawyer and lobbyist from the state capital of Columbus. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The state legislature was scheduled to assemble on Tuesday, August 27, and he was to deliver a formal speech on the condition of Pennsylvania. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Odessa High won the state championship that year, which became one of those events that was remembered in the psyche of the town forever, as indelible as Neil Armstrong landing on the moon. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

On January 1, 1863, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the slaves living in the eleven states that had seceded from the Union. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

By the end of the first week of September, the yellow fever epidemic had driven the state government from Philadelphia and crippled the city’s administration. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Mounted possemen look on as a state trooper approaches an unconscious woman. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

With high treason, the state must prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt and needs two witnesses to testify to each charge. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this case, the state was far more powerful than we, and any attempts at violence by us would be devastatingly crushed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crossing state lines one is aware of this change of language. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prescott’s thunderous cadences remain a pleasure to read, despite the author’s firmly stated belief, typical for his time, in the moral inferiority of the natives. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Even his underwear smelled like puke, and once everything was off, he was embarrassed to have been in the car with Lily in that state. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Folks enjoyed that sort of thing and it was politically useful given the combat with the northern states and the antislavery movement. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Some states made executions more accommodating of victims by increasing the number of people from the victim's family who could watch the execution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Keffers, observing this, would again shake his head, but when we asked him what else we were supposed to do, the floors being in the state they were, he’d make no reply. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How dare you? You’re not in a fit state to come here, if you can’t come here without spluttering like a bad pen. What do you mean by it?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

She got hit, and now she’s in some dream state where Luke Messenger spoke the lyrics she was just listening to, and has now handed her a towel that has the scent of pine trees. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He was sentenced to nine months of hard labor and sent immediately to a prison in the northern part of the state. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I’d bet a month’s pay that an eighth-grade boy had been chosen at absolute random and dropped into the top academy for differentiated instruction in the state. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

It was a case challenging the Alabama Department of Public Safety’s decision to administer state driver’s license examinations only in English. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A white minister stated at a union meeting, “This riot has come to us as a shock after all our idealism.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Singer became very familiar with the procedure of the courts and he was in a constant state of agitation. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dad shakes his head at Pop’s state, but no one says anything. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Basically, I had to show up at the police station every Tuesday and Thursday for a month to have a computer “chat” with a resident of the Maple Grove Nursing Home somewhere across the state. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far from being in an advanced stage of decay, the Old Finch House was in an excellent state of repair: it was a hunting club. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Sir, I know you’re a very important, very busy man, so I just have one quick question: If I were a book on true crimes in the state of Ohio, where would you shelve me?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She could not bring herself to state the alternative to the stooped, white- haired woman who had weathered so much with the family. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any other team on spaceship Earth would have worried about Julian's defying an official of the sovereign state of New York. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Supreme Court had banned the execution of people with intellectual disability, but states like Alabama refused to assess in any honest way whether the condemned are disabled. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

No, now I am going crazy, slipping into some state of paranoia. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Poems of the period were either descriptions of objects, plants, weather conditions, geographical features or emotional states, or they followed a narrative. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Our book is about our quest to live in all fifty states. We have plenty of material to work with.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t talk about Otto in my state, not when so much depended on what I said. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

On the last day in Advanced Algebra, Mrs. Verne told us that we had made great progress and that we were far in advance of most eighth-grade mathematicians in the state of New York. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Last year, the state legislature cut Dad’s workday from fourteen hours down to eight. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Forest fires in the northern state of Roraima that year claimed such a huge area that Brazil requested aid from the United Nations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t understand why, if the state was willing to give us packages of meat, sacks of potatoes and fruit, and cans of all kinds of things, our mother obviously hated to accept. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Militarism is a belief in the need to have a strong and aggressive military that is in a constant state of readiness. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Joseph,” he said, “your father’s right: every month, a check comes from the state. I want you to see where it goes.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

When we heard nothing, I asked Gay to contact the assistant state attorney. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

We were still very actively litigating on behalf of condemned children in Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana—Southern states where we had litigated previously. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They reached such a state of intimacy that later, without realizing it, they were whispering to each other. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

By the spring of 1920, thirty-five states had ratified the 19th Amendment, and eight states—Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Delaware—had voted against ratification. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I try a new tactic -climbing a tree as high as I dare in my shaky state -to look for any signs of water. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Human Rights Watch reported in 2000 that, in seven states, African Americans constitute 80 to 90 percent of all those sent to prison on drug charges. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“None with whom the Picketts have a good relationship. Davis has been declared an emancipated minor by the state and is his brother’s legal guardian.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They want confusion in our courts, and frustration among our states....The name of the game is now survival—and we will either win it or lose it. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t wanna be the black guy accused of “playing the race card” at a state tournament. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It would never do to let Dove return to the inn in such a state. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever I visited his home on Second Avenue we often talked about the state of black tennis. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did everything possible to probe and expose the hypocritical rhetoric surrounding the Indian Creek Dam—the state engineer’s pronouncement, for example, that it was “the only way to save a dying culture.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy puts on an attitude of impatience: he’s much too busy with matters of state to be bothered by maids and a chauffeur. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such men depend solely upon two very uncertain and unstable things: the will and the Fortune of him who granted them the state. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he reached the hospital, his state of mind had shifted. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had visited governors of distant provinces before; he had attended state banquets and done his best to charm those his father asked him to charm. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Both boys were in a state of high alarm. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Two Polish Annas raised their hands, and the teacher instructed them to present themselves by stating their names, nationalities, occupations, and a brief list of things they liked and disliked in this world. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She tries to hum all the states and the capitals. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Passed in 1917, this law states that anyone who “willfully communicates or transmits” documents related to national defense to others who are not authorized to see them can be fined and/or sent to prison. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Some heads of state were long late and some didn’t get there at all. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Luke was younger, sometimes they’d go on little day trips—Doreen called them vacations—to state parks that had waterfalls, malls that seemed to last for miles, and even a zoo once or twice. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Orff had his tetchy criticisms of the regime - not directed at its deranged policies, mind, but because it wouldn’t roll out his children’s music programme Schulwerk into all state schools in the Reich. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Native states in contact with European states have arisen from chiefdoms repeatedly in the last three centuries in Madagascar, Hawaii, Tahiti, and many parts of Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His Excellency’s face glared from the fabric of the boubou she wore every day; she often announced that she would wear nothing else until the state of Biafra was fully established. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But judging by the state he's in, Haymitch will have no memory of this tomorrow. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“He’s done magic for heads of state,” in addition to Muhammad Ali and Princess Di. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The state campground isn’t as inviting as the river. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The site is now a state park with a small museum. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We arrived back at the square with all possible expedition, our nerves in no settled state. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

There was a natural reluctance among many African states to support violent struggles elsewhere; but the speech convinced people that freedom fighters in South Africa had no alternative but to take up arms. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He set aside special days to honor individual states and nations and to fete distinct groups of workers, including cobblers, millers, confectioners, and stenographers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

At the time, a wife could own property in three-quarters of the states, and she could keep her own paycheck in two-thirds of the states. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Crew read newspapers throughout the flight,” the audit stated, “often with newspapers held up in such a way that if a warning light came on, it would not be noticed.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It had some of the heaviest concentration of Mormons in the state and, by extension, in the world. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The oranges groan in unison at this fact about their home state. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It allows you to exist in a state of suspended animation. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Major grassroots organizing efforts would be under way in nearly every state and city nationwide. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Its oyster fries were known throughout the state. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Alexander stated: “If we know anything, it is that if virtues do not equal powers, the powers will be misused.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since 1964 it had won four state championships, been to the state finals a record eight times, and made the playoffs fifteen times. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He said it’s fine if you leave the state. I was worried, you know.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having lost her courage, in a miserable state of demoralization, Meme had no other recourse but to bear up under it. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I also seem to be in an advanced state of undress.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t think you did. I said, ‘In many states a hunting license entitles you to one deer and no more. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Yeah, I guess it was fate, because when I opened the pamphlet and saw the picture of the jagged, towering rock sitting alone in the middle of my glacier-flattened state, the plan was revealed. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The Klan's growth caused South Dakota governor Ben Olcott to complain in 1922 that “we woke up one morning and found that the Klan had about gained political control of the state.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I drag myself into a state of relative alertness, eat a can of potato and bean stew, and sit against the wall facing the door. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She had committed murder with an effing kitty-cat statue in a beautiful state park over a massive and scenic ravine. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He felt only sorry for him and sure that, if they could stay alone together for a while, Fiver would come round to an easier state of mind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The birth of a son, the death of a patriarch—these events likewise affected the state of a household’s garbage. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“In the capacity of Bigger Thomas’ lawyer, I’d like to state that he does not wish to testify here.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Pennsylvania one year paid out $90,000 in bounties for the killing of 130,000 owls and hawks to save the state’s farmers a slightly less than whopping $1,875 in estimated livestock losses. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Which in this case, Joe figured, was tantamount to being singled out to be a human target on the state police pistol range down in the capital. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s Peeta, but he couldn’t do any more than speculate, and who knows what state his mind’s in, anyway. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The state attorney general had sent Hoover a telegram indicating that he held the bureau “responsible for failure” of the investigation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In its more extreme forms it relegates personal rights and liberties to the higher authority of the state, which is “us” and not “them,” and it therefore has both communal and despotic implications. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“The state troopers are looking for them right now,” Leon said, “and the Department of Motor Vehicles is checking the ownership of all the Chevy pickups. So far nothing.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A block away was the state capitol, adorned with three banners: the American flag, the white and red state flag of Alabama, and the battle flag of the Confederacy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Your harp is in a better state than you are,” said Eilonwy, taking the bard’s instrument from his shoulder and putting it in his lap. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

That a new life existed so close, just over the state line? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Some state officials expressed happiness and excitement that an execution had taken place, but I knew that none of them had actually dealt with the details of killing Herbert. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This being my natural attitude, I don’t know what made me turn sharply south and cross a state line to take a look at Yellowstone. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gypsy moth, which in its larval stage attacks the foliage of oak trees and a few other hardwoods for a few weeks each spring, now occurs in all the New England states. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Jamie and I met regularly, and she gave me exercises I could walk myself through to deescalate myself out of an anxious state. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

If you evolve such a universe forward in time according to the laws of science, you will end up with the lumpy and irregular state you started with. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there is really no way out of this, at the present state of knowledge. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plutarch and Fulvia take the bench across from us but don’t offer any comments on the state of my prep team. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“She’s so relaxed. But where did she come from? I’m the only falconer who can have a peregrine in this part of the state.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

We would be sitting around, in our usual zoned-out state, and someone would suddenly cry. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

For instance, Genesis 49:10 states, “The scepter shall not depart from Judah...until Shiloh come.” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The state of Mississippi eventually moved from hiring convict labor to organizing its own convict labor camp, known as Parchman Farm. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This was the Fowleses’ other awful news: Father had walked or hitchhiked all the way over to the Kikongo mission in an agitated state, bellowing that his guts were on fire with venom. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Doug Swieteck’s brother and the state penitentiary crowd lifted me up out of the snowbank and hefted me across the icy crust and handed me into Mrs. Baker’s back seat. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Evidently no one had ever spoken to Beatrice so forth- rightly, for she appeared to be in a state of shock. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s always a sentence that says something like this: Airline policy clearly states passengers age twelve and over may travel with no adult supervision as long as they have a valid boarding pass. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The Klan burned down homes and businesses belonging to its political rivals, and frightened many others into leaving the state. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He stated that if the referendum was defeated, he would resign from office. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His votola cloak was in a similar state, with dark rusty splotches on it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was still called the Capitol Building, for it was once a state capital, back when there were still states—in those days before government became obsolete. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Once the novelty of moving wore off, I feared Jesse would sink into the same torpid, depressed state he’d been in back in Idaho, only worse. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was born on June 22, but in her anxiety-ridden state, Mom said it was June 1. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“It was unjust, he had by then decided, “and was acquiesced in merely from a fear of disunion, while our government was still in its infant state.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I sigh to think of the insecure state of women, who must always abide the earthly authority of men. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think it would help Bran out of his vegetative state if she did?” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hailing from all fifty states and fifty-two foreign countries, the students were more intelligent and better prepared than he and his classmates had been, he told the parents in his quiet, deep voice. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Are we attending to the world—our families and partners, coworkers, friends, jobs, and ourselves—in a way that is consistent with our stated values? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They held each other in the dark, saying nothing, their breathing regular until finally they drifted into a state of half sleep and half wakefulness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was December 1990, and I was traveling to Berlin with the re- porters covering secretary of state James A. Baker III. The Berlin Wall had been breached a year earlier, on November 9, 1989. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The blight eased the pain of my father’s death, making it seem like a general state of affairs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But Nelson slunk out of the house in such a terrified state we couldn’t find anything to laugh about, that is for sure. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prior to the Civil War, when West Virginia was still part of the state of Virginia, these ancestors of mine were slaves on a plantation called The Bower, in Leetown, Virginia. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

In 1828, New York became the first state to restrict abortion; by 1900 it had been made illegal throughout the country. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Two weeks after being greeted as a hero in Iceland, and after stating that he just wanted to live in peace, Bobby found that his troubles weren’t over. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Some state legislators from northern Virginia’s affluent suburbs have argued that this is a form of geographic discrimination and have quixotically proposed bills to outlaw it. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Just a few days later, state representative Stephen Clark was driving up 1-15, the big highway that runs through Utah. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Bridge had once believed that state borders were something you could see, actual black lines that you could walk along if you wanted to, one foot in front of the other. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

This state lasted until lunch, when suddenly 1 became self-conscious. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Most of the southern states, Virginia among them, had paid off the bulk of their wartime debts. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Tennessee and upheld the rights of states to present evidence about the character of the victim in a capital sentencing trial. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Before we came he had arranged a job at a mushroom farm, just over the state line in Pennsylvania. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He was the first person representing any part of the city or state government who had shown any humanity at all. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Lent had just begun, and I was always in a state during those forty days of the passion of Christ. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know tons of people who have never even left the state. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It seemed to me partly caution and partly a lack of interest, but strong opinions were just not stated. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Chapman and the state officers connected with the case now readily acknowledged Walter's innocence, they were unwilling to accept any responsibility for his wrongful prosecution and death sentence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The conversation had to do with whether Reggie could complete his mission, still his stated dream. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But as a science teacher Tapia was state certified and was appointed to our school so there was no way for the principal to get rid of him. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Fred Gray asked her to state her name and address and tell when she had stopped riding the buses. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

That morning, around nine o’clock, she was moved to the state colony’s infirmary. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

When they did, they usually left behind their Calvinist denominations and became members of the elite church linked to the state Church of England. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

One of his former teammates stated, “He wasn’t a big fan of doctors and hospitals, that’s for sure.” The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

As Roosevelt drove, the two men began talking over the state of the war. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then with the black-draped coffin lying in state among them—inescapably reminding them—they felt the dark night of slavery settling once more upon them. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hadn’t he noticed the state I was in? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She urges me to apply to colleges out of state—Smith College in Massachusetts, for one, her alma mater. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It’s a volcano nearly sixteen miles high, and it takes up more square mileage than the entire state of Oregon. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I am glad to find you, sir. I have a telegram here for you all the way from Washington. That’s District of Columbia, sir. Not state of.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I occasionally wore my hair out in its natural state, big and puffy. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The newspapers of all the states were divided among them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’ll take another two weeks to cross the state line into Idaho. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mass funerals for the victims of state violence became national rallying points. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We are a state," he continued, "which stands with open borders at the center of the competition between two world systems." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maimonides stated that the act of creation came from nothing. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Suppose, however, that God decided that the universe should finish up in a state of high order but that it didn’t matter what state it started in. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or had his own attention and expectancy shifted him into this state of higher awareness? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The restlessness that disturbed Christine’s home state in the form of student protests in Greensboro would follow her, and engage her, at Hampton Institute. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“We are. We took advantage of her state of mind,” Juanita concluded, biting her lip nervously. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Jail and prison became the state's strategy for dealing with a health crisis created by drug use and dependency. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Baker doesn’t hate your guts, and you are, too, paranoid. What’s the third state?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The universe would have started in a smooth and ordered state, and would become lumpy and disordered as time went on. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thought you were gonna stop calling him that,” Lucas stated plainly. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Both boats were state- of-the-art shells—Pocock’s latest and greatest, sleek splinters of cedar, the Husky Clipper and the California Clipper. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In its raw state, Burnham knew, it was not a setting likely to win anyone’s heart. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I reflect the state of my realm,” he said. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The death penalty was taken off the table after Tony agreed to cooperate with the state. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“But you haven’t told us why the state cop brought you,” Andrew repeated. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There just aren’t the same number of bigots in blue states. If they don’t want to be left behind, maybe people in red states should do something about it.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The troops had been dispatched by President Johnson after Governor Wallace had denounced the marchers as “Communist-trained agitators” and insisted that Alabama could not afford to pay state troopers to protect them. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My state of mind was rattled,” he said. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

American Jews had to be awakened to the problem of a Jewish state. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Our house was on a corner where the state highway turned east toward the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

By the third day, I abandoned my umbrella entirely and walked around in a perpetual state of wetness. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I grew up in the pastures and hills of Texas, but I had been to thirty-four states before I learned how to drive. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Other states followed with even more draconian legal measures to sterilize and confine men and women judged to be genetically inferior. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The real “elite,” the “big shots,” the “voices of the race,” were the waiters at the Lansing Country Club and the shoeshine boys at the state capitol. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the Supreme Court’s ruling on the health care law last year, while upholding it, allowed states to choose whether to expand Medicaid. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Southern state court judges and all-white juries were all too willing to rule in favor of “defamed” local officials, and state authorities had won millions of dollars in judgments this way. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I was in no mood for Robert Frost, that white-assed crusty old man from some cow state. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

But still, the land in a desert state was worth nothing without water, and Bookman and Noyes controlled the water. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I shouldn’t have listened to Boggs, because he might have been in some delusional death state. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Well, I don’t know if it’s explicitly stated in the law, but you can’t ever tell a Chinese mother to shut up. You could be charged as an accessory to your own murder.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We need to state our project as a problem. A problem with numbers.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some attended community colleges, while others went to major universities in states that stretched all the way from Massachusetts to Hawaii. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had been a carpenter, janitor, teacher, preacher, college president, lawyer, state senator, and general. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t an irrational thought, for there was no profession in the state of Texas with worse job security than that of high school football coach. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

One is the willingness of courts to hear inmates’ lawsuits against states. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men have been dying for Ireland since the beginning of time and look at the state of the country. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

National and state laws and a trend toward teaching and testing “core subjects” reshape social perceptions and create a permanent culture that continually marginalizes the arts in the curriculum. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Worried, haggard, fitfully puffing on a cigarette, Bernabe Montoya separated himself from the group of about a hundred onlookers and trudged over to the state cops. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mighty campaign was announced, in which the federal government in cooperation with the afflicted states would ultimately treat some 20,000,000 acres in nine southern states. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

By the beginning of March, I had sunk into the state of mind you get into when you know you have to take castor oil and there’s no way out. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This map shows the boundaries of the original homelands of the Cherokee Nation, which included large parts of what are currently several states of the southeastern United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Overall, it was a dignified, friendly affair and a reminder that even heads of state are capable of talking about their children and joking about the British weather. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Franz, excited about the visitors and the general chaotic state of the apartment, could not keep still. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She was the first president since Nixon to win the presidency but lose her own state of residence. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Only last summer he’d gotten an official warning that had stated quite clearly that if the Ministry got wind of any more magic in Privet Drive, Harry would face expulsion from Hogwarts. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Given the unusual things Cox and his son were about to do for Booth, given Booth’s state of mind, there is little doubt that Booth confessed all to his hosts. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Pentagon, for its part, has given away military intelligence and millions of dollars in firepower to state and local agencies willing to make the rhetorical war a literal one. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When she saw that we Firebirds would be playing in the state tournament, she decided to come to the game. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

He explained that eventually he would practice in that state, enter into its politics and he might as well be classmates with its prominent citizens of the future. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Expeditions from France and Spain were usually backed by the state, and generally staffed by soldiers accustomed to hard living. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She had an almost undefeated record and frequently found herself in the folds of the New Jersey Star-Ledger, identified as the best female saber fencer in the state. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He told the court that during my remarks to the Natal Regional Command I had stated that all MK cadres ought to be good Communists but not to disclose their views publicly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county, and city prisons and jails. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

There had been Belew telling them that everything could be taken away from you in life, your house, your car, everything except a state championship. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Eight more states by 1979," she reminds me before heading to our room to put her posters away. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Revolving my thoughts upon this curious state, I resolved thus: I would not fail 03-01. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He told her that, depending on what the engineer found, it could be worth suing the state. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Look at the state of him, the filthy layabout! Look at his hair!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was an area code for this part of the state, I was sure of it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“The laws of this state permit the hearing of evidence to ascertain the degree of responsibility. And, also, the law permits the offering of evidence toward the mitigation of punishment.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

For centuries it stood on equal ground with its neighbors, the rising Maya states to the east and Teotihuacan to the north. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

During the first three decades after the Treaty of Paris was signed, allied Indigenous nations in the Ohio Country and the southern states were involved in several struggles to resist settler encroachment. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll go pack your suitcase for state prison,” she said to Dad. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever been to Colorado? I think there are ten black people in the whole state. I don’t miss people looking at me funny.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

When this happens, it appears to create a state of competition inside the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The disquietude he felt on Katahdin’s granite heights inspired some of his most powerful writing and profoundly colored the way he thought thereafter about the earth in its coarse, undomesticated state. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took out his wand and gave a great sweeping wave with it; at once, all the candles except those inside the carved pumpkins were extinguished, plunging them into a state of semidarkness. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When the clerk asked for Wisconsin's vote, the head of the state's delegation stood up and announced two votes for Grant, two votes for Blaine...and sixteen votes for Garfield. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“English history!” roared the silver-maned senior Senator from his state indignantly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was a political trial, an effort by the state to show that it was not soft on the Red Menace. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she got to Virginia itself, she realized that she didn’t know in what part of the state to look for her people. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I toss and turn, in and out of consciousness in a delirium of anxieties that haunt both states. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He testified that nonblack defendants were routinely prosecuted in state, rather than federal, court. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Although the National Executive Committee stated, “Our emphasis still remains mass political action,” Umkhonto was referred to as the “military wing of our struggle.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It states simply that in the long run the difference between the probability of some event and the relative frequency with which it occurs approaches zero. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years after his retirement, Terry still lived in a state of numbed formality—impeccably dressed, remotely servile, never asserting himself in any way, at least that I would see. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“We ran across the kids right around the Ohio state line,” Liam said. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t fight all of them, not in this state and not when they were armed. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Gatsby indicated a gorgeous, scarcely human orchid of a woman who sat in state under a white plum tree. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The film, starring state COs, was a primer on how not to let inmates manipulate you for their own ends and make a fool or a criminal out of you. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wallace told his supporters that he’d physically block schoolhouse doors rather than allow black children and youth to enroll into Alabama’s all-white public schools and state colleges. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The threat grew as we penetrated deeper toward the center of the state. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we stopped at various points to discuss the state of the sanctuary, Otto would quickly lose interest, pressing his face against me and play-biting my shirt. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The state dog is the American foxhound and the state fish is a brook trout, he calls out. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I did not specifically state that collaboration would be prohibited.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Almost banning the death penalty through a popular referendum in an American state would have been unimaginable just a few years earlier. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The question remains, however: how or why were the laws and the initial state of the universe chosen? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hugh was out of breath, bees darting around him in a state of agitation. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In 1867, while still serving as secretary of state and still bearing the disfiguring facial scars of the knife attack, he purchased Alaska for the United States. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Other Republican operatives like John Beckley, the Speaker of the House, were focusing on the political factions in Pennsylvania, another key state. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Despite the defense’s successes in showing the shoddiness of the government’s case, the state was obdurately persistent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Good Friends, the Buddhist aid group with informants in the North, reported in 2009 that one soldier on a state farm was stabbed with a sickle during a fight over corn. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Sister McDonald was over this afternoon, and Lord knows she was in a pitiful state.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

In their broken state, they were judged and condemned by people whose commitment to fairness had been broken by cynicism, hopelessness, and prejudice. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Humanity is innocent; humanity is guilty, and both states are undeniably true. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Then there were a few rallies around the state to socialize with other Klan units. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The numbness was beginning to wear off, and he could feel the pity of his state. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In many states, including Colorado and Maryland, people convicted of drug offenses now constitute the single largest category of people admitted to prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, the prince must establish rewards for those who wish to do these things, and for anyone who seeks in any way to enrich his city or state. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

In today’s world, financial constraints, gender bias, and lack of state support now make it almost impossible for Russian women to learn to fly. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She adjusted the paper’s date on her press, inserted the slug containing the name, city, and state of the newspaper and printed as many slips as there were items marked. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although Robben Island was becoming more open, there was as yet still no sign that the state was reforming its views. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And so you actually put this piece of court-plaister by for his sake!” said Emma, recovering from her state of shame and feeling divided between wonder and amusement. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Arthur Dula, an American lawyer who specializes in laws governing international space-related activities, stated that such discrimination should make Russia's Federal Space Agency ineligible for any more funding from the United States. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even worse, the local newspapers “carried big headlines” stating “Prominent D.C. Woman on Lost Plane.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

On this basis of material stability Orgoreyn had gradually built up a unified and increasingly efficient centralized state. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

We can state one of its core premises quite simply: a revolution in ideas requires a revolution in language. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was succeeded and perhaps taken over by a state called Chimor, which oversaw an empire that sprawled over central Peru until it, too, was absorbed by the Inka. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Others fled to other states and cities—that is, to other ghettos. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

In later states, including most today, the leadership often became nonhereditary, and many states abandoned the entire system of formal hereditary classes carried over from chiefdoms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

PAFMECSA, which later became the Organization of African Unity, aimed to draw together the independent states of Africa and promote the liberation movements on the continent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has a light accent—he’s not from Oregon or Nevada or Arizona or New Mexico or West Texas or any other Republic state. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Though bent almost double, she stared up at me with black eyes that seemed to know my past, while Elnora stated her business. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

New York, where almost 75 percent of the state’s revenue had come from liquor taxes, was particularly hard hit. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He was sitting in a trancelike state in front of the screen, with the green light of the “Erik—Scholarship Offers” file washing over his face. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others were driven to what, in retrospect, was a sort of permanent state of mourning: for our loved ones, who always seemed at risk, and for our own lives, which felt so fragile and vulnerable. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And this brings me to the subject of state police. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned around and around in a foggy, dreamlike state, looking for the source of that scream, but only darkness surrounded me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Ah, sure, go on,” he said, waving us off in a dazed state of mind. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Spain’s New World colonies were soon joined by those of half a dozen other European states. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The early sixteenth century was a bad time for the Roman Catholic Church and its allied heads of state in Europe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When the state Welfare people began coming to our house, we would come from school sometimes and find them talking with our mother, asking a thousand questions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every shelter has a register in which visitors make diarylike entries on the weather, the trail conditions, or their state of mind, if any, and note any unusual occurrences. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, Emily, breathing quietly in the darkness, gauged the state of the household by straining to listen. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Sweet, you’re such a states’ rightist you make me a Roosevelt Liberal by comparison.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“If you need help with any of the state schools, you could always swing by here later.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

At the state university he took his studies so seriously that he was suspected by the homosexuals of being a Communist and suspected by the Communists of being a homosexual. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I say, “I think this is the ugliest place I’ve ever seen. Not just here. The whole state.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He could barely rely on his mom long enough to get to practices and meets, let alone a trip to a state that seemed halfway around the world. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“The state’s only eyewitness to this ‘crime’ is an old man seeing things in the dark. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Competitions generally fell on the weekends, and we usually had to travel out of state for those. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Even in his home state of New York, the Federalists were, as John Quincy Adams put it, “a minority, and of that minority, only a minority were admirers and partisans of Mr. Hamilton.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

To tamp down on the violence, they would need assistance from the state militia. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was a hell of a state of affairs, we were nowhere. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emma was not at this time in a state of spirits to care really about Mr. Frank Churchill’s not coming, except as a disappointment at Randalls. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

The Court decided to bar claims from federal habeas corpus review if they weren't initially presented to state courts. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

You are so bored you sink into a state of apathy close to a coma. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dub often said that his boys would have won a championship as well—if there were enough colored high school teams in the state to have an actual tournament. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had stated the problem that, in mathematics, is called the theory of limits. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to go to the state university but we couldn’t afford it. My father had to send me to a small denominational college.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was positive that there was nothing wrong with the Firebolt now, but what sort of state would it be in once it had been subjected to all sorts of anti-jinx tests? Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

A blush blooms up her neck at my undressed state, and she looks away. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

While states in the North abolished it, the South considered slave labor to be essential to its economic success. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Second, when states and school districts adopt the standards, they are taking a stand for rigor, informed by a clear intent. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The term conveyed the political fear, so potent among the Antifederalist critics of the constitutional settlement of 1788, that the states would be absorbed by the new federal government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Franks lodged a powerful protest in open court against the state’s humiliating his clients in such a “fantastic” fashion and treating them, he said, “like wild beasts.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, Mr. Washington only found the reference to it. The licensing file also says that Mrs. Moss stated that she no longer allowed the children to taste her home-cooked hot sauce.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But what excited scientists most was that freezing gave them a means to suspend cells in various states of being. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The storm was impressive, overwhelming snow-clearance efforts; the mayor had declared a state of emergency. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had roused it from its slumbering state under Dr. ka Seme, when the organization had shrunk in size and importance. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By accepting those values, I imagined, I would move into a society that would find me as wonderful as I found it, and together we would have achieved the state of being good. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Black hair, in its natural state, is “nappy” and disorderly, they told me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

One real estate dealer bluntly stated: “You people are not admitted to our society.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But he was a politician now and had traction inside the state Democratic Party. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The state troopers went on to describe, briefly, how the oncoming car hit the disabled vehicle and sent it into the side of the rocky embankment with Will’s dad pinned between them. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Because of my insurance through the state, the cost will be minimal, she says. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He also often spent up to twelve hours a day in his third-floor office constantly telephoning various parts of the town, county, state, and nation. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Broadly stated, the plan called for Mudgett and his friend to recruit a couple of other accomplices, who together would fake the deaths of a family of three and substitute cadavers for each person. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I’d placed at state in all my events, and now Ted was expecting something from me, and that was sort of a scary place to be: in the scope of his expectation. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Soon after she was given the New York state papers, and now had three states to read. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what they didn’t say was that prison was also a microcosm of a totalitarian society, a nearly pure example of the police state. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of Harlem hustlers actually had reached that state—as I would later. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is the rest of the town in a similar state?” he asked. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to be in this suspended state where I can see what’s happening, where I’m aware of what I’m feeling without being able to actually feel it. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

California would be the ninth state for Emily in her twelve and three-quarters years, all part of her parents’ quest to live once in each of the fifty states. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Many of the beliefs and attitudes demanded of him are never plainly stated, and could not be stated without laying bare the contradictions inherent in Ingsoc. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

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

The Supreme Court shackles the police, compounds confusion in the legislatures of the states, and turns loose murderers and rapists to repeat their evil deeds upon the innocent and law-abiding members of society. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Special days were set aside for suffragists who represented specific states, organizations, occupations, or schools. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Fall sports previews had us repeat state champions and as Coach Mustilli had predicted, I was now one of the best saber fencers in the state. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

New York’s seventy-one prisons are scattered across the state. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few months later my parents enlisted the help of a Zionist organization—one of the groups whose goal was to establish a Jewish national state. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Numerous states now have some type of mandatory sentencing for this offense—typically two days in jail for a first offense and two to ten days for a second offense. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday of state championship week, the regular meeting of the Permian booster club was interrupted by numerous standing ovations. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After setting a legitimate Boy Scout state record in friction-fire ignition, he broke his record by soaking his tinder in gasoline and mixing it with match heads, causing a small explosion. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Supposedly, it’s the best in the whole state, and I think I might agree, because it’s sharp, creamy, and melts perfectly. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The men in the pub are talking about the terrible state of the world and how in God’s name Hermann Goering escaped the hangman an hour before the hanging. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Knowing that the procedure would be painful, they didn't want to disturb Garfield while he was in such a fragile state. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The regime would not admit a state of war until it was proclaimed in a decree that had followed a court-martial which had condemned Colonel Aureliano Buendía to death in absentia. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Now we all have one thing in common—a religion that makes us enemies of the state. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Now that I have your interest,” the letter stated, “I want to tell you the real reason why I wrote to you.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Frankly, our ancestors don’t seem much to brag about, I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars and the broken planet. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Okra has too much pride to do tricks for mere human beings,” Mary Anne stated officiously. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wilkerson begins the paragraph by stating that the actions of her protagonists are universal, but she does not rest with that generalization. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Starting before she was born, her parents had bounced from state to state because, in their words, “that’s where our paychecks pulled us.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

At the start of another winter, however, a woman who was washing clothes in the river during the hottest time of the day ran screaming down the main street in an alarming state of commotion. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The nonprofit Pew Charitable Trusts reports that prison populations in at least ten states are expected to increase by 25 percent or more between 2006 and 2011. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Motherhood and jobs were both encouraged by the state. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

One reason that Kepler had to go to such lengths was that he could not simply baldly state the facts, because there was no tradition of taking facts at face value. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

If we knew the initial state of our universe, we would know its entire history. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Prince Dain awaits her downstairs in General Madoc’s parlor. He commanded me to fetch her and not to mind whatever state of dishabille she was in. He said to carry her if I had to.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

More than a thousand women journeyed from thirty states to take their turn on the picket line. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Back in line!” the soldier behind me shouted, and I realized that it was me he was talking to—that in my fevered state I’d strayed too far from the center of the road. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’s trying to save them from starting their careers in the state penitentiary early. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Many early states and all modern ones have had literate elites, and many modern states have literate masses as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Assistant district attorney. Judge: family court, state supreme court, appellate division. Appellate has two p's and two /'s. Never married, no children." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Entering the state of Ihram, we took off our clothes and put on two white towels. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The universe would be in a state of almost complete disorder. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did we really think that little Mica, undefeated in its own third-rate league, could ever stand up to the big-city powerhouses around the state? Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Eventually the work broke the crippled—it always did—and those in a state of unreason were sold off cheap or took a knife to their own throats. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The news of that vote was heartwarming to the tired President; so, too, was the fact that all the Northern states except Kentucky, Delaware, and New Jersey were of one accord with the soldier vote. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The state called me to testify. What could I do? Refuse? The judge would’ve thrown me in jail.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It was located in the heart of southern California’s citrus belt, an area that produced almost all of the state’s oranges, lemons, and tangerines. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

The Osage chief stated that his people “had no choice, they must either sign the treaty or be declared enemies of the United States.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A state highway maintenance truck was parked across from his drive. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I thought it strange that they should have a portrait of her here, especially in such a state of dishabille. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The bobcat is the most challenging game there is. Pure stealth. In the whole state only a couple dozen hunters will be successful this year.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Rarely has a state so avidly supported the pursuit of knowledge. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why was it not seen in uranium in its natural state? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The booklet is simply a list of laws stating what colored people can and cannot do, in an assortment of Southern states. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But others, probably overcome with smoke, escaped the worst of the flames and now lie reeking in various states of decomposition, carrion for scavengers, blanketed by flies. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Philip of Macedon—not the father of Alexander, but the man defeated by Titus Quinctius—did not have much of a state compared to the great power of the Romans and Greeks who attacked him. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Bogert stated as much, in an extreme of unshown annoyance after having listened to each set of replies, made lists of word deviations, and graphs of the intervals of responses. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The sanctuary was located on the former campus of a state school that had closed after it got shot up during one of Congo’s wars. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Alabama state troopers surrounded Wallace as he made his defiant stand against desegregation in Alabama’s all-white public schools. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

This had the effect, at least, of breaking the trance-like state we’d been in, and we gathered round her to listen, the way we might have done at Hailsham when a guardian started to speak. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

No trace has ever been found of the great dog; at which there is much mourning, for, with public opinion in its present state, he would, I believe, be adopted by the town. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

This was an unparalleled situation in the country’s history: in the South African parliamentary system, the leader of the majority party becomes the head of state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The debates in the ratifying conventions of the respective states only exposed the irreconcilable differences of opinion that the Constitution had so deftly bundled together. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In addition to a track team, Mountain View had a football team and was known around the state for its academic and sports successes. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was Vigil, the state policeman who patrolled our town. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Truman’s secretary of state, James Byrnes, replied that neither goal was realistic. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jethro ran out to the road to take it, to report his father’s improvement and the state of the farm work in general. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not alive and she knew it, but...whatever her new state might lack, it was infinitely preferable to the unmaking that had almost devoured her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

If they want to return as much of the landscape as possible to its state in 1491, they will have to create the world's largest gardens. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Now that the Cranes had spent years bouncing from state to state, their family adventures were starting to feel...Emily wasn’t sure what the word was to describe it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Crossing the state line was a capital offense in Georgia; sometimes a master preferred an example over the return of his property. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The creatures return to their forward-facing gazes, but one of the wolves growls as it settles back into its frozen state. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

By Friday, when the court recessed for the weekend, the state had completed its case, which included the appearance of four Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is possible to say unequivocally,” he stated, “that nuclear weapons tests carried out at the present time do not constitute a health hazard to the human population.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

According to the master’s will, none of the slaves could be sold outside the state of Maryland. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meredith, who had integrated that state’s university system in 1962, launched a solo 220-mile walk from Memphis, Tennessee, to the Magnolia State’s capitol in Jackson on June 5. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

What is certainly true is that the book was set in this part of the state, and the movie was filmed in the area. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Either explanation contradicted the predictions of the steady state theory. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I shudder to think what the state of my in-tray would be if I was away from work for five days.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When I won the city, county, and state spelling competitions organized for black students, Mr. Wesley publicly expressed a special pride in me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks, that’s—” “Hush. I’m not giving you compliments; I’m stating facts. And I wasn’t finished. This ‘certain type of girl’ is often nuts. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

For Adams, the American Revolution was still an experiment, a sail into uncharted waters that no other ship of state had ever successfully navigated. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I say, then, that the armies with which a prince defends his state are made up of his own troops, or mercenaries, or auxiliaries, or of mixed troops. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Dwaine was proud of his son, who had started at defensive tackle for Permian in 1987 when the team, the biggest bunch of overachievers ever, had gone all the way to the state semifinals. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

From state to state, the people were different. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Thirteen of the state's sixteen pulp and paper mills were opened during this period. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The music should act as a filter for unwanted noise and help create a relaxed, mentally alert state. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The state had been preparing for three months, but we had only received the indictment that day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the school drawing from a state with roughly the population of Angola, Australia, or Afghanistan, Prince was the only black child. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The state made a series of simultaneous arrests of campaign leaders in Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, and Kimberley. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he’s reached that state of intoxication which power is said to inspire, the state in which you believe you are indispensable and can therefore do anything, absolutely anything you feel like, anything at all. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is it too much to hope that even at this late state he will regain his balance and fulfill his obligation to the chess world by trying to play Spassky without histrionics? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But they did hold on, and as the war trailed drearily on, vindictiveness toward the stubborn stand of the seceding states grew steadily more bitter in the North. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only then does he stand up straight and begin walking toward the secretary of state’s bedroom. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Accordingly, with a mixture of the serious and the playful, which she hoped would best suit his half and half state, she replied, Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

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

“Besides, we’re arranging his presence at a state dinner in a few months. He’s not any more excited about this than you are.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

No one in my hut had any ideas that night and we moved on to discussing more important issues of state before sleep. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The new system of control is traceable, to a significant degree, to a massive bribe offered to state and local law enforcement by the federal government. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She’d washed again before she left the Night Zoo, but that hadn’t drastically improved the state of her old beastkeeper tunic. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Grant’s telegram states that Sheridan has ridden over the battlefield, counting Confederate dead and captured, particularly the many top Confederate generals now in Union custody. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Did you know it was banned in Southern states? She could have gone to jail for playing it. She was brave.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I guess so,” I said, but I didn’t know what to do in my happy state. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She should not have said that, not her, not the first black, the first woman, to have been elected to a judgeship in the state. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

States, though—especially so-called empires formed by amalgamation or conquest of states—are regularly multiethnic and multilingual. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In all that follows, here and in the rest of the book, the date given is to be understood as before Christ, unless it is otherwise stated. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would dispute the state’s central contention that we had embarked on guerrilla warfare. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside their state I think Texans are a little frightened and very tender in their feelings, and these qualities cause boasting, arrogance, and noisy complacency—the outlets of shy children. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, maybe his message got through, because Adria and I always felt completely comfortable growing up in Spring and traveling around our home state, Texas. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

You let my mother climb to the loft You let me get into a state of doom. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then the road took a slight turn inland at the point where private homes and private property began and the state beach ended. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time of Walter's release, only ten states and the District of Columbia had laws authorizing compensation to people who have been wrongly incarcerated. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

However, this “hydraulic theory” of state formation is subject to the same objections leveled against social contract theories in general. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Let us get reinforcements,” said Bono; which now I see was but his way to distract me from my course, but which then, in my disordered state, seemed excellent advice. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

After a nighttime rally at a black church in the town square, four hundred people filed out the church doors and moved down a sidewalk lined by helmeted state troopers and deputy sheriffs. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here in Chennai we speak Tamil, but my parents grew up in a nearby state where they spoke Kannada. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He’d tried, without success, to get a law passed to allow immigrant workers to get permits to work in the state. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The DEA has offered free training, intelligence, and technical support to state highway patrol agencies that are willing to commit their officers to highway drug interdiction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Long past the hour of Compline, the last prayers of the night, a sound aroused me to a confused state of wakefulness. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The vast majority of states continue to withhold the right to vote when people are released on parole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In my confused and credulous state, the sight of the man in the demon mask startled me into wakefulness, the seductive warmth I had felt a moment ago vanished, leaving my body limp and leaden. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And he made a home run, and his team won the state championship. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The proposal that gained widest support was called the steady state theory. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s too embarrassing now. I show too plainly. I won't go before any one and be married in this state.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I truly believe that if ever a state social agency destroyed a family, it destroyed ours. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly every state allows private employers to discriminate on the basis of past criminal convictions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A new pack fresh out of the box, arranged by suit and in sequence from ace to king, can be said to be in its ordered state. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, by broadly condemning black nurses, Carey put the entire black community “in the hazardous state of being classed with those who are called the ‘vilest.’” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The fiddler came from this or that plantation, the banjo man from another state: Every day the musicians in the dormitories shared the melodies from their regions and the body of music grew. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But he stated that it was late and that he would need several hours. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The Giver, on his return, would find the community in a state of confusion and panic. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were women representing the Red Cross, PTAs, political parties, religious groups, and social clubs, as well as women marching behind banners from every state. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Close to forty guests come from three different states. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A group of businessmen from the chamber of commerce had tried to persuade Arthur to run for the Washington state legislature. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Father was right. This is the worst school in the district. Maybe the entire state.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

This house, invisible to Muggles, has been left in its ruined state as a monument to the Potters and as a reminder of the violence that tore apart their family. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I had the honor of spending a year as a special assistant to the secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Fun Fact: “You are my sunshine” is the state song. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Ronny hadn’t gotten his first piece of jewelry yet; he was in like a larval state. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

There were reports that farmers, after meeting state quotas, would be allowed to keep and sell food. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

These are our stated values, which we use to direct our behavior deliberately. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Since then, The Goober had walked around in a state of apprehension, expecting to see his name on a Wanted sign on the bulletin board, for crying out loud. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The state of emergency was called off, and so we went ahead with plans for our retreat. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Making matters worse, thirty-one states and the federal government subscribe to the practice of lifetime felon exclusion from juries. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The government suggested that Bantu Authorities would free the people from the control of white magistrates, but this was a smoke screen for the state’s undermining of democracy and promotion of tribal rivalries. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His error was understandable, because all the societies with which he would have been acquainted—Greek societies of the fourth century B.C.—were states. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the land was taken by the National Forest and by the state which later sold it to white ranchers who came from Texas in the early 1900s. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose a system starts out in one of the small number of ordered states. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After twenty years of hard work and ruthless manipulation of small farmers, Marshall Turner had become the emperor of truck farming in one of the most fertile agricultural areas of the state. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this state of mind, I bet you don’t even give up your seat to a pregnant lady. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

One moved to another state the week after they met him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

C.P. didn’t know that before Helms took over as news director at WRAL, he had served for years as editor of the house organ of the state’s financial community, The Tarheel Banker. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In 1957, spurred by the efforts of the ANC Women’s League, women all across the country, in rural areas and in cities, reacted with fury to the state’s insistence that they cairry passes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nationally, narcotics task forces make up about 40 percent of all Byrne grant funding, but in some states as much as 90 percent of all Byrne grant funds go toward specialized narcotics task forces. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

All the states we’re going to pass through on this ride. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, it’s less than half of what IU would cost,” which was the state school a couple hours south of us in Bloomington. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The brochures didn’t state it as much, but that was the reality. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“We are confident,” said Edward Lim, “that the state will see fit to return custody of May Ling Chow to her biological mother.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The three of us can’t wait to move up to the state competition,” said Grace. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Five men were seated around a large oval table in a conference room off the governor’s office in the state capitol. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say, therefore, that those dominions, upon being conquered and added to the long-established state of the one who acquires them, are either of the same region and language or they are not. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

All his life he had lived as a failure and now he was going to die as a failure and the sooner the better, he stated. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barack and I also made a last state visit to the United Kingdom together, which included a quick trip to see our friend the Queen. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

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

He believes that they are closest to the state of original sin, and he tells them this. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

By July 1921, the justice of the peace had closed his inquiries, stating that Anna Brown’s death had come at “the hands of parties unknown”—the same finding as delivered in the Whitehorn inquest. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She could not bear, in her changed and fallen state, to submit herself to the eyes of others. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

While couching their views in the honeyed language of Southern progressivism, the men who ruled Durham were as opposed to integration as their less cultured counterparts throughout the state. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Epiphany had never before won even the local championship, and there they were, up on stage, ready to compete for the state trophy. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Barack had lost his mother at the very genesis of his political career, two months after announcing his run for state senate. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

C. J. continued, “With the information we have, we are going to notify state and national public health officials.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your book is about us living in all fifty states. We have a lot more to go before we’re done. If we stop now, you won’t be able to write your book.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I spent a year in the state juvenile facility. I beat someone up. When I got out I couldn’t go back to the academy, so I went to the charter.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Some segregationists went further, insisting that integration causes crime, citing lower crime rates in Southern states as evidence that segregation was necessary. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The contents had returned to their original, silvery-white state, swirling and rippling beneath his gaze. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Were on our way to lunch with Mr. Gideon, who sent us a note stating he would meet us at the door to his lab. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Perot had routinely rubbed shoulders with the most powerful men in the world—presidents, senators, heads of state, chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Victims' advocates were added to parole boards, and in most states they were given a formal role in state and local prosecutors' offices. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Our power and our fear of change help bind these people to their misery and bewilderment, and insofar as they find this state intolerable we are intolerably menaced. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

It was hard to look at him in that state, and I was nervous about talking to him. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It’s a relief to be back in her world, heading north across the state border. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Happy or sad were states I never thought applied to him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

If they did not agree to this “compromise,” he cautioned, he would be forced to close the state’s public schools entirely. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

To make sure that workers at state farms do not shortchange the military, the army stations soldiers at all three thousand of them throughout the harvest season. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The sugar story in the United States centered on Louisiana—though even supposedly free states like New York made fortunes in transporting and selling sugar grown by slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He told us about an hacendado, a large landowner, who used his company store to keep his father and other peasants in a state of endless debt. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I warned him that if he wanted to halt the discussion he must get direct orders from the state president himself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Think about it. There’s the value of the fireworks and then the value of them being from out of state. We’re saving you a tank of gas each way, for sure.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine trying to compete in this state. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Technology! Innovation! A modernized state in which all Americans—Negroes, whites, Indians—could live together.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Washington is in a state of shock. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He’s like Mikey Molloy, never made his First Communion, wandering around in a state of sin, never made The Collection, never saw James Cagney. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

No one in the Tallis household was looking after the Quincey twins, and to conceal her guilt she said brightly, “We’ll never find anything with the room in this state.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It had never occurred to Harry that there would be exams with the castle in this state. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It still is—in high school, she made state. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But I don’t need to worry because the father responds immediately “Well, what about the state of you? When was the last time you washed that jacket?” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Polyrhythm, as it has since been dubbed, had long existed in African tribal drumming, improvised on the spot by highly intuitive, skillful players, often in various states of trance. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

One of them would soon be living in Texas; another, for a time, in Washington state. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“The Death Mist is not simply a disguise, you see. It is a state of being. I could not bring you this gift unless death followed—true death.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Yet though Indians here were playing a heroic role, the advertisement still embodied Holmberg's Mistake, for it implicitly depicted Indians as people who never changed their environment from its original wild state. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It’s a kind of fugue state, anyway, early sex. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Godwin’s Law—an Internet commonplace—states, “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

A chiefdom’s one or two levels of administration are greatly multiplied in states, as anyone who has seen an organizational chart of any government knows. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What fun! Who are they from? Didn’t know you had a lover,” cried the girls, fluttering about Meg in a high state of curiosity and surprise. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Princesses live there,” Laney stated, bracing her arms on Isa’s shoulders so she could get a better view. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Our contract specifically stated there would be dog tricks.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Mark was scared that would snap the men out of their dazed state and cause them to retaliate, but they actually dropped their ends of the ropes in response. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Near Monroe, Georgia, about an hour east of Atlanta, Luma was cruising in the right-hand lane when she looked out the driver’s-side window and saw a Georgia state police car riding alongside her. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

In some states, such as Ohio, as many as 90 percent of children charged with criminal wrongdoing are not represented by a lawyer. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

To take an example, he wanted the state of Utah to withhold federal income tax paid by Utah residents until a state committee determined which federal programs were constitutional. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But the state of Alabama chose not to cooperate with the Supreme Court decision. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then he phoned the state engineer, Nelson Bookman, and a half-hour later the agent, Bookman, and Bookman’s mouthpiece, Rudy Noyes, met in the state engineer’s office. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyler has one sibling, an older brother studying music at Bloomsburg University, one of the Pennsylvania state colleges that attract Truman students. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They were ultimately released, only to be arrested a third time, charged with sending obscene materials across state lines. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Malachy says I should make sure I’m in a state of grace because it might be hard to find a priest to come to my hanging. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Some considered the federal amendment a challenge to states’ rights to make their own choices and laws, and others worried that expanding African American suffrage to include women could threaten white political control. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

What you aimed for was a state of half oblivion, a private party mood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I was confused. And I was excited about the money. So when he came over, I...Sometimes I think this whole state is cursed.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Sarai followed them in a state of fascination, and they went into a tiny shop tucked under a bridge, leaving their creatures at the door. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

That’s how a police state works—everyone thinks everyone else is the police. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Three hostages, eighty-five inmates, and one state trooper were wounded. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So do you mean that the weather’s state of mind is just our state of mind?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Madam, I have to state the entire truth.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Iowa, a state that is flat and stratigraphically uneventful, it tends to be comparatively serene. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

When they find I have nothing for them, they lose interest and drift back into their semi-conscious state. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was a temporary placement until the state could find something better; or maybe the Schotts did not like me either. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly and incomprehensibly to us in our carefree state—just around a curve, a car was parked across the road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a state of euphoria, with a hunger for more and more, die council of founders cast its eye toward a future that would certainly include trade from cross-river towns. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Hamilton was aware of the Federalist plot, which was no half-baked scheme hatched by marginal figures, involving as it did several Federalist senators from New England and Timothy Pickering, the former secretary of state. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

No one in the state box speaks as Dr. Leale works on Lincoln, but its list of occupants grows longer. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I again proclaimed that a countrywide campaign of noncooperation would be launched if the state failed to hold such a convention. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their nervous state, every statue’s shadow looked like Filch, every distant breath of wind sounded like Peeves swooping down on them. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

You could play dead: “the state of collapse may be imitation of death, which many animals put on.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guards in various states of armor saluted them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Of the state’s 9,304 square miles of territory, some 85 percent—an area somewhat larger than Wales—is woods, and nearly all the rest is either lakes or above treeline. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The state contended that we were actors in a conspiracy to overthrow the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the amendments to the state’s constitution, the punishment for possessing seditious writings, or for aiding and abetting a colored person, was left to the discretion of local authorities. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

McCarthy had no proof of the existence of any Communists in the state department. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I’m in a state of utter confusion, don’t know what to read, what to write, what to do. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Except for this moment, Smith, and Hickock too, affected a courtroom attitude that was simultaneously uninterested and disinterested; they chewed gum and tapped their feet with languid impatience as the state summoned its first witness. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Vaughan who is well acquainted with the Indians stated that his real interest in the case was to...have the guilty party prosecuted,” a private detective wrote. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“There”, being the window, I crossed to it, and stood “there,” in a very uncomfortable state of mind, looking out. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Many states lowered or eliminated the minimum age for trying children as adults, leaving children as young as eight vulnerable to adult prosecution and imprisonment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The state also upheld the fines black people had paid for “parading without a permit.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

However, this time line shows valiant efforts by union workers that were crushed by industrial corporations with the backing of local, state, and/or the federal government. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“I’ve heard that there are more Montana boys fighting than from any other state in the Union.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Only John, Gloria, and a judge on the other side of the state knew she was free. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But in May of that year this man lost 800 colonies after the state had sprayed a large area. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Further, they stated that the money their society had collected for making coffins and burying the dead “has not defrayed the expense of wages which we had to pay to those whom we employed.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

More than two hundred other buildings erected by states, corporations, and foreign governments stippled the surrounding acreage. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I was in New Hampshire now, which pleased me, because we had recently moved to the state, so I was naturally interested to explore it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Many of them thought they were dealing with a firm from South Korea, the expert said, while others were unaware that North Korea is a closed totalitarian state with sham courts and no international accountability. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I think on the Collegians, returned to their gaunt house, which hath, I suppose, been barbarously used lately by His Majesty’s troops, and is like to be in no excellent state of repair. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Back then the fallout had been sporadic and highly variable; some states had been nearly free of it, others became saturated. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

In his state of fatigue, his thoughts dipped like hummingbirds from this to that, always coming round to the fear—the fear of the citadel and all that had happened in it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the advice is unhelpful because it is stated in terms of strings rather than trees. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Thomas Hobbes had worried about a state of nature that was “poor, nasty, brutish and short”; Galton was concerned about a future state overrun by genetic inferiors: poor, nasty, British—and short. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The result was the famous Mason and Dixon line, which later took on symbolic importance as the dividing line between the slave and free states. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to leave the world in a state of fright. I want to know what’s happening, accept it, get to a peaceful place, and let go. Do you understand?” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pushing his chair against the wall, he leaves the door to the state box hallway unguarded and walks outside. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

When I began to get caught stealing now and then, the state Welfare people began to focus on me when they came to our house. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved to backpack with his family on weekends, and he had an intricate professional knowledge of many mountain ranges in the state. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm so used to the smell of filth and death that only when I see those handkerchiefs am I reawakened to the true state of things. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“It will become a state in eighteen fifty.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

If they did, the suit would still be heard and decided in Alabama, but the judges would represent the United States government, not the state of Alabama or the city of Montgomery. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

White rural communities that house prisons wind up with more people in state legislatures representing them, while poor communities of color lose representatives because it appears their population has declined. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When the FBI concluded their interviews, they sent a memorandum to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover stating the results of their investigation. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

While other states have caps of more than a million dollars, and many have no cap at all, several states impose onerous eligibility requirements. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

One wasn’t a person: It was a state. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

As with the Inka, the kings’ mummified bodies continued to live opulently in their own homes and could not be displaced; indeed, the mummies were necessary presences at important state occasions. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

His state of mind was bad; he was emaciated; and he was smoking sixty cigarettes a day. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she saw the state her son was in, she knew he would die from his lovesickness if she didn’t help. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

But my cases against the Mosses and the state were still alive, and we received notice that Mr. and Mrs. Moss were going to give their depositions. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Despite this expenditure, Hoover had decided, after assuming command of the bureau, to dump the case back on state authorities in order to evade responsibility for the failure. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Would I really have to go all the way to some northern state to find peace? Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

In my current state, even his glib computer-generated voice was somehow comforting. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Similarly, if the whole universe recollapsed, there must be another state of infinite density in the future, the big crunch, which would be an end of time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our intention was to begin with what was least violent to individuals but most damaging to the state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pond is the best place to wallow in my wretched state. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“If the state let her spend it on this place,” Osh said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

City and state dignitaries would be there to pair their images with the hottest celebrity in the nation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are a number of objections that one can raise to the strong anthropic principle as an explanation of the observed state of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The legislature approved his plan shifting responsibility for desegregation from the state to local school boards. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A man on the dole must be ready in case another man on the dole brings up Hitler or Mussolini or the terrible state of the Chinese millions. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It seemed that with the fickleness of a child’s earache, Barack’s three years of work in the state senate had been all but wiped away. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“This is what a police state looks like!” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

If anyone had taken those cigarettes across state lines at any point, it was a felony. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“But it’s absurd to let yourself get into a state like this. Simply absurd,” she repeated “And what about? A man—one man.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The High King lets his heavy robe of state fall from his shoulders. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I had known the answer, and yet, to hear it stated so baldly was terrifying. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Not so much book smart, even though he did know all forty-eight states and capitals and all the presidents from Washington to Roosevelt. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

His farm, like about two-thirds of the farms in the state, occupied less than ten acres—unviably small by the standards of developed nations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A financial reckoning was inevitable, but come the approaching conflict over the race question, North Carolina would emerge in the most advantageous position of all the slave states. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter if their own fathers were in the state hospital or the federal prison, they hadn’t betrayed theirs, and Janice had. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

History lessons remind us that the states in which we live, their institutions, even their laws, have come to us through conflict, often of the most bloodthirsty sort. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I said I did for the state test, but really I just read it.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

It was strange she never once adverted either to her mother’s illness, or her brother’s death, or the present gloomy state of the family prospects. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

His pursuit to win a state championship became a ruthless obsession, say those who worked for him, for he knew that any-thing less would not be enough. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same thing was happening in high schools in every state. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Descartes’ remarkable and novel claim, first stated in the Discourse on Method, was that animals are automata, that is, complex, self-moving machines. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She considered dragging the log to the water in its present state. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Technically, Hawaii wasn’t US soil. It didn’t become a state until 1959. But, yes”—Mr. Schmidt stops writing—“the attack led to America’s entry into the war.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was a general feeling of privilege and rejoicing, as if the daughter of Caesar were passing through a sort of initiation into the glorious state of being a full Roman citizen. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

To enhance the drama of the proceedings, the state had made arrangements for a live broadcast of Yutar’s speech on the South African Broadcasting System. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her father owns the optometry school where Billy was going. He also owns six offices around our part of the state. He flies his own plane and has a summer place up on Lake George.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid finally called her niece, who put Moon Orchid in a California state mental asylum. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quinton proudly holds up the trophy he won in the state math competition. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It is by no means a blueprint for a socialist state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes flew open in the dark, his heart began to hammer, and he gave up on sleeping and lay in a state of terrible impatience for the rest of the night. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Marshall came into the game ranked third in the state and badly desired a hunk of mighty Mojo’s hide to prove the Mavericks were for real. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Garzoni is not very interested in garlic and magnets; but his tract begins by stating that there is much nonsense written about magnets, and that reliable knowledge has to be based on experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I met Mrs. Daisy Bates, a petite and smartly dressed, steely-eyed woman who was the Arkansas state president of the NAACP. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As my eyes adjust, I see the buildings on the square have been hung with banners that help cover up their neglected state. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Other guys be under the influence. Not being fully aware of your surroundings can be risky thinking because you’re not in your right state of mind. How do you know it’s a risky thought?” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

That’s why great former cities in states like Georgia are pretty much ghost towns these days. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

If the state president was not brought on board, nothing would happen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I applied to some schools in New York City, so maybe we’ll be in the same state.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The first is that it has jurisdiction only over foods shipped in interstate commerce; foods grown and marketed within a state are entirely outside its sphere of authority, no matter what the violation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Arthur's father was paralyzed, in a state of shock. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wary of potential violence, several states implemented reforms to eliminate the most abusive practices. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The state’s star witness was Bruno Mtolo, or “Mr. X” as he was known in court. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo had gone beyond terror to a state that was almost a dream. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When court was over, they would take his father to a road camp or a quarry or a state farm. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually dissension and uprisings led to the collapse of the Mayan state. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

And this leads, imperceptibly but inevitably, to a state of mind in which, having long ago learned to expect the worst, one finds it very easy to believe the worst. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Every state has developed its own process for restoring voting rights. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We invoked it in stating that if we had 367 people gathered together, we could be certain that at least two had the same birthday. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run as fast as I can in this state, the game forgotten, and from the corner of my eye, I see a girl with yellow hair coming toward me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Newspapers prominently featured Resha’s words and echoed the sensibilities of the state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she gets A+ in everything, and starts a club, and builds an after-school program, and scores perfect on all the state tests, they will have to love her. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He evidently fears discovery or interference, in the state of helplessness in which he must be—confined as he is between dawn and sunset in his wooden box. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The state department’s words were cheered throughout the country. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In response to this new and much more powerful threat from the state, the ANC embarked on an unaccustomed and historic path. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In confusion they will instantly revert to their real state—weak and sad humanity. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The law of Leviticus states ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life.’ Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Eventually she was brought back to her normal state of mind by a cramp in her right ankle, which was resting awkwardly in the crook of the fork. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You earn straight As. You excel on all the state tests. You deserve better than we can currently offer you here at Riverview. You deserve to be at Sunny Brook.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

One Monday night, Blackburn came to Big Stone Gap, in a mostly poor corner of the state not far from Andy Blevins’s town. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It did not help my state of mind when Father came home that evening with a black eye and his right sleeve torn. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Frightened” did not describe my state; I had moved on to terrified. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Figuring out Alabama civil and criminal law while managing death penalty cases in several other states kept me very busy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In its most familiar form, dominant in the nineteenth century, the tension assumes a constitutional appearance as a conflict between state and federal sovereignty. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She graduated from high school at fourteen and enrolled at West Virginia State Institute, a black college located just outside of Charleston, the state capital. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Closer to the truth, I was in such a state of wretched disorder, I did not want to think. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Panic over the impending crime wave expected from these "radically impulsive, brutally remorseless" children led nearly every state to enact legislation that increased the exposure of children to adult prosecution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Walter’s case taught me that fear and anger are a threat to justice; they can infect a community, a state, or a nation and make us blind, irrational, and dangerous. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“We are not leaving that Horcrux lying around,” Harry stated firmly. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

An extraterrestrial visiting Earth 10,000 years ago might have been forgiven for predicting that Europe would end up as a set of vassal states of a sub-Saharan African empire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

After all,with Washington as president, Jefferson as secretary of state, Edmund Randolph as attorney general—he might have added Madison as dominant presence in the Congress—Virginia's interests were hardly unrepresented in the capital. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I could have stated the obvious—I was working, wasn’t I? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Most I can hope for is the state university.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But the lieutenant had no interest in the inmate’s mental state. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had strong castles and wicked retainers, who found more opportunity for wickedness under their leadership than they would have found in a settled state of society. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The state of Virginia, on the other hand, hoisted the Jim Crow flag even higher. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

As a former foreign minister now serving as secretary of state, Jefferson required no instruction on the international implications of Americas debtor status. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Even today, banks, state offices, and state institutions shut down in his honor. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“If the state spent more time finding new sources of water, instead of fining us for filling our swimming pools,” one woman says, “we wouldn’t be in this position.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

First the districts, then the regionals, and finally the state tournament. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

This state of absence, of existing apart from the body, had been true of the Commander too, I knew now. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Number two states you cannot buy gifts for others.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Now,” said the owl, “you may state your problem.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I have studied astrophysics and even waste management systems in space aircraft, but I have never given any thought to the procedure for custody or guardianship of a minor in the state of California. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Which, in turn, would leave her state senate seat vacant, opening up the possibility that Barack could run for it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It puts you directly into a neutral state. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The pass stated where the bearer lived, who his chief was, and whether he had paid the annual poll tax, which was a tax levied only on Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Referring to a poll that said 85 percent of all Arkansas’s people opposed integration, Governor Orval Faubus announced his refusal to support the integration of our state’s schools. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“God only knows the state you’d be in right now if we hadn’t found him.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He was capable of laughing, of allowing himself from time to time a feeling of nostalgia for the past of the house, and of showing concern for the state of misery present in Melquíades’ room. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In some 25 years, colonies of Tiphia were introduced into 14 eastern states in a cooperative program of state and federal agencies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Craig somebody said that the story would likely lead the state page in the morning, but I told him we didn’t get the Baltimore paper. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The state bought them coal and paid for their school lunches. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Let man keep his many parts and you'll have no tyrant states. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

All this was due to our status as state “peace officers.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had lived in a state of alert, a kind of constant terror, our brains flooding with cortisol because we knew that any of those things might happen at any moment. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I had driven 350 miles to get to Pennsylvania, had spent four long days in the state, and walked a net eleven miles of the Appalachian Trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The vast majority of those arrested for drug crimes are not charged with serious offenses, and most of the people in state prison on drug charges have no history of violence or significant selling activity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It's a long bus ride to the state prison. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Ultimately the Nudzahui under his lead took over much of Oaxaca, forcing the Zapotec states to pay tribute. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It is a silly, childish discussion and only exposes the want of brains of those who maintain a contrary opinion to that we have stated. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

For the gatekeepers of heaven were to review him in state, that they might make their decision: Would this man be a credit to the empyrean? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How can the weather have a state of mind?” said Papadimitriou. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Aristotle considered states the natural condition of human society, requiring no explanation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cars converged on Holcomb from half the counties in the state, and from Oklahoma, Colorado, Texas, Nebraska. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the riot finally ended, Chicagoans were left in a state of shock. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The Chattahoochee is part of four million acres—6,000 square miles—of federally owned forest stretching up to the Great Smoky Mountains and beyond and spreading sideways across four states. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Since it was a political season, and Senators Kennedy and Humphrey were crisscrossing the state running for president, the glare of national scrutiny was settling on West Virginia. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Its chest rose conspicuously and fell, as if the owl, in its hypnagogic state, had sighed. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

George Wallace still fought integration fiercely from the governor’s office, claiming each state should have the right to decide what was best for its citizens. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, in neat rows, were the certificates of students who had passed the Fourth Grade Spring Benchmark Writing Test, a section of the Texas state exams. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

And I learned how important it was to be in a state of grace at the moment of death. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once China was finally unified, in 221 B.C., no other independent state ever had a chance of arising and persisting for long in China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he said that, he had been watching the video of the 1987 Plano-Permian state semifinal game inside his living room. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had agreed to international mediation, and on April 13 a dele-gation arrived led by Lord Carrington, the former British foreign secretary, and Henry Kissinger, the former American secretary of state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pigeons take advantage of Ma’s distracted state and gather at her feet once more. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love, and it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the case of geometry and the state, on Hobbes’s view, we can know for sure why something is the case because neither geometry or the state would exist if we had not constructed them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The amendment was ratified by the states and became part of the Constitution in December 1865. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He survived a guilty verdict, death row, and the wrongful condemnation of an entire state. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When he died, state prosecutors changed the charges against Mr. Dill from assault to capital murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was an irritant to the state because of his sharp questions and attempts to show that the state was the violator of laws, not the Congress. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Suzuki says somewhere that to be in a state of pure consciousness—satori—is to be with God before he said, Let there be light. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

As time goes by, the system will evolve according to the laws of science and its state will change. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after Finn had eaten more honey clusters than was lawful in the state of Illinois, Mel packed an extra tin for Sean, along with a large jar of honey, in a brown shopping bag. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

All these features of states carry to an extreme the developments that led from tribes to chiefdoms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is by definition a purely authoritarian state that tolerates no independence or individuality. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drifted to the locker room, changing in a trancelike state, only vaguely aware that there were other people surrounding me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Delegates, state senators—the governor. All the political pooh-bahs. And all those media people, too—the newspapers, TV. This is a big issue, Brady!” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Lars was a real trouper when the touring company’s bus was stopped by a state trooper. try and/try to. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later it would seem to Pearl that the Richardsons must have arranged themselves into a tableau for her enjoyment, for surely they could not always exist in this state of domestic perfection. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Chapman had called in the state attorney general's office to help defend Walter's conviction, and they'd sent Assistant Attorney General Don Valeska, a longtime prosecutor with a reputation for being intense and combative. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

First, states need to repeal mandatory sentencing laws for drug offenses. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But going back to the place where Annie had died was too much for Charles in his weakened physical and emotional state. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was startled that the French philosopher could so perfectly characterize the racists of our Southern states. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

After seeing Seabiscuit walk from the train, a local reporter stated that the rumor that his injury had been faked had been “confirmed.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In time this oddly matched pair would play a large role in defining how the world viewed the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and, by extension, the very nature of the new Nazi state. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Years later, I would occasionally meet her at events in other states, and I ended up spending a little time with her. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her parents were publishing a book about living in fifty states, for Pete’s sake. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Governor Nelson D. Rockefeller refused to negotiate directly with the inmates, and on September 13, worried that the inmates were harming their hostages, the state police launched a bloody battle to retake the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they rode into the draw and under the oak trees Samuel said, “I hope you haven’t got me in a state, Lee. It’s a strange day, and I don’t know why.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As a chocolate fiend and our resident sweet tooth, Skid lived in a constant state of bewilderment that I was firmly committed to my Reese’s and/or other peanut butter and chocolate sweets. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We were at the Santelli Tournament, the largest high school fencing competition in the nation, where all of the state’s teams competed for a chance at the coveted championship title. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in that unwritten contract, there must be a clause that clearly stated that neither was to attend a dance without the other, especially with a date. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Let us be dissatisfied until every state capitol will be housed by a governor who will do justly, who will love mercy, and who will walk humbly with his God. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My mother, my grandfather, and Adele detested the state people, so I did too. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

This was Albany, the capital of the state of New York. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I guess I realized that the state of New York wasn’t going to look down on me if I accepted the offer of a meal. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Paul and Burns did become involved with NAWSA, they didn’t support its emphasis on state campaigns. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She organized a group of sixty women who canvassed the state of New York, collecting ten thousand signatures on petitions. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

A patron of young Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he held other state appointive offices before getting himself named chairman of the new State Commission on Prison Reform. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Booth approaches the door leading into the state box hallway. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

As if such a state of being ever existed, anywhere, for anyone. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Still, I reason, this sudden removal to an unknown state is not all that different from the kinds of dislocations that routinely segment the lives of the truly poor. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that countries in regions with long histories of state societies or agriculture have higher per-capita GNP than countries with short histories, even after other variables have been controlled. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The paramount chief’s location may become the state’s capital city. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The other affidavit was from a defense attorney who had extensive experience in state prosecutions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In many countries they’ve been granted equal rights; many people, mainly women, but also men, now realize how wrong it was to tolerate this state of affairs for so long. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

After stints in North Carolina, New York, Florida, Virginia, California, and a handful of other states, he returned home to southern Maryland and started work at a job that would change his life. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

One abundant and widely ranging species supports the entire commercial fishery of the southern Atlantic and Gulf states. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In 1948, Pesza and David joined a Zionist group and left Czechoslovakia for the new state of Israel that had been founded that very year. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Both the state house and the state senate had to ratify. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

About going to a wonderful place called ‘heaven’ where there is no more pain or death and you live forever in a state of perpetual happiness? Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We had never received state support for our work, and without the federal dollars we faced serious financial challenges. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In 1996, Congress passed welfare reform legislation that gratuitously included a provision that authorized states to ban people with drug convictions from public benefits and welfare. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As for Uncle Andrew, what between the state of his clothes and the honey on his face, he could not have been recognized by anyone. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The date line was Greenwich, Connecticut, and it stated that two children of Mr. and Mrs. Steven C. Kincaid, Sr. had been missing since Wednesday. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I came home and our troop train got to the southern states, I had to leave and switch to the colored cars. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In states that already had female suffrage, the emphasis would be on support for a federal amendment. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

First, he saw no means of making him master of any state that was not a state of the Church. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

College teams from five states competed in the first indoor track meet of the season, but the big event, the mile run, was won by a high-school senior. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would’ve come with me today, but she’s in California with her family, touring Berkeley and a couple of other state schools. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Friendship depends on interlocking time, place, and state of mind. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Parliamentary procedure? Did you go to girls’ state? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She could tell at a glance if a sleeper was dreaming or was in that restful state between dreams. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They questioned my mother about my father’s medical history, then shifted to questions about his mental state. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

So widespread and heavy was the loss that 14 other beekeepers joined him in suing the state for a quarter of a million dollars in damages. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia prohibit people from voting while incarcerated for a felony offense. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He stated that he was going to Washington, DC, on Thursday or Friday of this week, and would talk to Mr. Hoover or his secretary. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

These are left to state and federal agencies, where the salaries paid are far less. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

"I can't--when I try to----" He had passed visibly through two states and was entering upon a third. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The state was right, and the time, the unusual name, the girl, Alice... Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Gomersindo Leyba said, “Knowing Bud, he probably rented his living room out at six dollars an hour to that state cop.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nowadays the great unsolved problems in mathematics are stated in terms of conjectures that mathematicians are unable to prove. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was in this state that I first heard the term bipolar disorder. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There is nothing decorating the room apart from the Massachusetts state and American flags and an oil portrait of a judge. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Although he did not state it this way, he was the first astronomer to imagine the planets hanging unsupported in empty space. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It promised to be an important meeting, because Ohio legislators were gathering at the same time to revise the state constitution, but Stanton didn’t feel she could leave her three young boys behind at home. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The state news agency noted that the new leader is “a prominent thinker-theoretician and peerlessly illustrious commander” who will be a “solid foundation for the prosperity of the country.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Used to be, my daddy told me, Sistersville was one of the best places you could live in the whole state. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chiron informed us that the Party Ponies had sent chapters from almost every state in the Union: forty from California, two from Rhode Island, thirty from Illinois . The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Neville performed a series of quite astonishing gymnastics he would certainly not have been capable of in his normal state. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She had to leave Maureen, who was not yet two, with a woman whose drug-dealer husband was serving time in the state prison. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The state redrew their indictment and we were back in court in early December. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Turner states, the idea that the “performing arts” must always be performed onstage to be valid detracts from their use to develop and explore the emotional, cognitive, social development and human potential. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Nothing that I can imagine could have moved me as deeply as seeing her pitiful state. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish,” said I, uncertain, “our state here would not change.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Roughly half of the people in state prisons are classified as violent offenders, but that statistic can easily be misinterpreted. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then it was pop bottle tops, then cigarette cards, then sightings of license plates from different provinces and states. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Prison regulations stated that prisoners must stand in the presence of a senior officer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new regulation stated that A Group prisoners were granted the right to buy one English-language newspaper and one Afrikaans newspaper a day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Finch doorbell was a mystical instrument; it was possible to tell the state of mind of whoever pushed it. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He wore his state pants tight and exaggerated his hip movement when he walked. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As worrying as the family’s financial state was to Regina, her concerns about Bobby’s mental health, personality, and behavior eventually became preoccupying. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

To keep the Cambodia operation secret, the military prepared phony reports for Congress, stating that the bombs were actually falling on Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The presence of Clyde’s gun should have terrified her, but a wave of grief swelled for Mr. Griswold’s current uncertain state, followed by a tsunami of anger. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I did not know then that when I started sixth grade, I would be living in the state of divorce and New York. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Better if he got out of the state anyway. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“There were all kinds of things of which I was afraid at first...But by acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid,” Roosevelt stated. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I didn’t mean it to worm out as a question and was mad at myself for asking instead of stating. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could only imagine the state I was in. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I suppose you were in a state of grace now, after your good confession, so you could be trusted with your might.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Food aid from China and the World Food Program was also flooding into state coffers—and some of it ended up in street markets. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The capitalism that bloomed in the cities and small towns of North Korea weakened the government’s iron grip on everyday life and did little to enrich the state. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Florida is one of a few states that allows the prosecutor to decide to charge a child in adult court for certain crimes and has no minimum age for trying a child as an adult. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"He's in my handbag. But I do think it might be better if we went somewhere private before you meet him in his present state." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

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

Burger described him as being in a relentless "state of fear throughout our entire trip to the United States." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Monge’s work was so important to the military that much of it was made into a state secret by the revolutionary government and by the Napoleonic government that succeeded it soon afterward. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Because no coaches were running north of Baltimore, the president and his secretary of state were forced to hire—at their own expense, Jefferson grumped—a carriage to take them to Germantown. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Their opponent the coming Saturday was a school from Dallas that had the most talent of any team in the state of Texas, perhaps the most talent of any team in the country. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The New Jersey Star-Ledger, the state newspaper, wrote a long feature story on me, as an Olympic hopeful. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Originally, historians stated that roughly 620,000 soldiers and sailors, about 2 percent of the population, were killed in the Civil War. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Eyewitnesses described the killings of dozens of people—state troopers, innocent bystanders, anyone who stood in the invaders’ way. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

While the TV commentator may have sounded like the voice of the Klan to C.P., in reality he spoke for the white men of wealth, power, and prestige who governed the state. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you know at the time,” Knabe said, voice rising, “that he sustained that the state law didn’t apply at all in the city of Montgomery?” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Then he looked at the judge and said, “No, Your Honor. The state rests.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

They lost in the lower courts, so they appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing that the federal protections of a citizen’s right to vote superseded any state law that says otherwise. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Most people released from prison after being proved innocent receive no money, no assistance, no counseling—nothing from the state that wrongly imprisoned them. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Not that I’d have been able to feel the sting in my state; pain didn’t matter anymore, but all the same I wanted to stay alive. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

This would mean that the atom, and indeed all matter, should rapidly collapse to a state of very high density. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This work on inflationary models showed that the present state of the universe could have arisen from quite a large number of different initial configurations. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he’s not careful, he’ll be blackballed by his state medical association and kept out of the hospitals.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Every couple of weeks, nearby, state and local police officers conduct sweeps to find migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Our main problem, it seemed to me, was that the state had certified us as lion tamers before ever leaving us alone in a cage with a lion. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She certainly was a lucky woman: a respected restaurateur, wife of a state official, and mother of the cleverest kid who ever lived. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only were both suspended for the rest of the meeting, but the officials recommended that the state racing board ban them from all California tracks until January 1,1939. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, in contrast to state bureaucrats, chiefdom bureaucrats had generalized rather than specialized roles. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

After receiving a telegram from President Woodrow Wilson urging him to support the amendment, he agreed to call a special legislative session, but he planned to wait until August, after the state’s Democratic party primary. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Nine black teenagers trying to integrate all-white Central High School had turned the states capital city into a military battleground. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, here we go into Mississippi—the most lied- about state in the union—that’s what they claim,” a man behind me said. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hinton was wrongly convicted of two robbery-murders outside Birmingham after state forensic employees mistakenly concluded that a gun recovered from his mother's home had been used in the crimes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Cleopatra convinced Octavian that she was sincere in stating that she wanted to live. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The state did its utmost to harass me in ways they thought I would be powerless to resist. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, there needed to be an official estimate of the specific amount each state would have “assumed” and then be obliged to pay in federal taxes before the vote on assumption occurred. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The M’Naghten Rule, as has been previously stated, recognizes no form of insanity provided the defendant has the capacity to discriminate between right and wrong—legally, not morally. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The states’ rights guaranteed under the Constitution seem to be passionately and gleefully exercised. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was nicer to me than most of the state Welfare people had been. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Legalistic debates over federal versus state sovereignty were just the most accessible handles to grab, the safest and most politically suitable ways to talk about alternative national visions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Second, the official religions and patriotic fervor of many states make their troops willing to fight suicidally. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And, with a fanfare of trumpets and drums, they stated in order that: “Henceforth,” “And forthwith,” “Let it be known by all men,” “That Rhyme and Reason,” “Reign once more in Wisdom.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the international front, Oliver held talks with the governments of Great Britain and the Soviet Union, and in January 1987 met with the U.S. secretary of state, George Shultz, in Washington. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I hadn't looked at the finances, I'd still be in a state of pristine ignorance, wouldn't I?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I assume getting your jaws wired isn’t the latest fashion state­ment,” he said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The pin glimmered with four diamonds, one for each of the states where women could vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He avowed that even if we proved that guerrilla war had not been approved and our policy of sabotage was designed not to sacrifice human life, the state could still impose the death sentence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Booth has stolen the phrase, truth be told, from the state of Virginia. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

These were all strategically significant locations, places that would attract attention and worry the state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

You must, then, understand how in recent times, when the Empire began to be driven out of Italy and the Pope began to win more prestige in temporal affairs, Italy was divided into many states. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

How in his near destitute state he was able to obtain the needed money is not known. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

For him, being conservative meant supporting extremely limited government and states’ rights. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“National woman’s suffrage is at hand,” a committee report stated. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Much of Europe, Asia, and North Africa was the site of metal-equipped states or empires, some of them on the threshold of industrialization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Following the initial success of the Reformation movement, the Catholic Church was fighting back, notably through the activities of the Jesuits in Austria and the southern German states. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t bother because they are both chronic apologizers, and chronic apologizers know that sorry is also just sorrow for the general state of the world. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Klotz has just said, “I guess so. Thank you very much” in response to the controller’s question about their fuel state. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She was a forceful, engaging woman whom I first met when I was studying at Wits, and her death revealed the extent of the state’s cruelty in combating our struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After they left Philadelphia, they were guided to New York city, and then on up through New York state, stopping at various stations on the underground route in Albany, in Utica. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We hope the state will focus more on preparing him for the world beyond incarceration than on punishing him.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

At a later time the most probable state would be a fairly uniform mixture of oxygen and nitrogen molecules throughout the two boxes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This Zulu example of a state formed by conquest can be multiplied almost indefinitely. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Missing settled over the girls like a sudden coat of snow shaken loose from an awning, and they moved forward on autopilot, dazed smiles in place, and stated their names and representative states. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

From there it was 135, 155—he went three for three, taking state every year. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In a better state, he would have recognized that it wasn't his balls that hurt, but rather his brain. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

And I remembered that Mother and Daddy, as teachers, were both state employees. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lacking any clairvoyance into my grandmother’s state of mind that day, I’ll just tell you what happened next. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Millions of dollars in federal aid have been offered to state and local law enforcement agencies willing to wage the war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Many others, employing cruel means, were unable to hold on to their state even in peaceful times, not to speak of the uncertain times of war. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Marla tells me to look at her, not the camera, and the first thing she has me do is state my name. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Migrants tick off the states they have passed—and the many they still have to go. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“The radio said that colored boy’s mama up in Chicago is blaming everyone in Mississippi for what’s happened, said she said, ‘The entire state of Mississippi is going to pay for this.’ Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Toby, who was always boasting how his friend was the best wrestler the state of North Carolina had ever seen. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Traveling the state and interacting with potential constituents, he was the same man I knew at home—funny and charming, smart and prepared. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Old age used to be a terminal affliction, not a temporary state. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And an enemy of the state was an enemy of Adolf Hitler. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Gentlemen, let’s don’t be childish! This boy’s going on trial for his life. My job is to enforce the laws of this state. . . .” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wish any two states could get together on a speed limit. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike every other German crew at Griinau that summer, they had not been individually selected by the Nazi state. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The clearest statement Washington ever made on America's national interest came in his Circular Letter of 1783, the last of his annual letters to the state governments as commander in chief. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Many of the Empire’s leaders—generals, the Blood Shrike, even the Emperor—make a yearly pilgrimage to the Augurs' mountain lair, seeking counsel on matters of state. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Two of us are left in that state, Helen clearly being distraught. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

On average, the men purchased in Louisiana were an inch taller than the people bought in the other slave states. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Your husband did not state an unequivocal no? He did not lead the defendant to believe that no hope existed for the reclaiming of his family’s land?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Claudette would be placed on probation, was declared a ward of the state, and was released to the custody of her parents. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

And yet he continues, “Baba and I already live in different states. I’m practically as far from Ohio as I am from Boston.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now, however, though the town is slightly tattered—Ossining is far from the most desirable address in Westchester—housing prices have pushed out practically all state correction officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had merely confronted my comrades, stated what I felt, and had let it go at that. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

This concept stated that good health resulted when body fluids, called humors, were in balance. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Again, if you can state your name and who you’re with.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

His father had remarried numerous times, so he had half siblings and stepsiblings in multiple states and one in the Philippines. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They were all built by the same contractor at the height of apartheid—separate nodes in the central nervous system of a police state. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

On Catoctin Mountain, a ridge of the Appalachians that runs north to south through the western part of the state, the trees were brightening into soft yellows and golds. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is how I found out he was from Jalisco, the same state in Mexico my family was from. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I am not a boy. I am a man. And I want a receipt,” Mr. Spencer stated firmly. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Even though I was now competing in local and state meets against gymnasts who were much older and taller than me, I was starting to win medals regularly. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Without these defects, states that have enough strength to take an army into the field are not lost. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

He knows we are going long before the suitcases come out, and he paces and worries and whines and goes into a state of mild hysteria, old as he is. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But why did the state police bring you?” my mother asked anxiously. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figured it had to do with debate stuff since the state tournament is around the corner, so I decided to hit her back. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The letter gave each of us two weeks or less to drop these jobs and report to the Albany Training Academy, where we would enter state service as correction-officer recruits. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was in this state, this emotional foxhole, that I started going to church again. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“They stole them. Those men were not from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. I checked on them when Hughie called me. And they weren’t from the state, either.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

"It's in another state, and unfortunately people in our state are fighting with people from there about sharing water." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

For several years after the war's end, federal soldiers were stationed in the former Confederate states. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Newport, in my home state of Rhode Island, fell to the British too. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aristotle just wished infinity away by stating that it is simply a construct of the human mind. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

When the headman arrived at the bush in which the old man lived, he was saddened to see him in such a state. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

At the time it heartened me that Bunny, in spite of his obviously disturbed state of mind, nonetheless continued to follow the old routine so easily. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She wrote, “Church and state, priest and legislators, all political parties and religious denominations have alike taught that woman was made after man, of man, and for man, an inferior being, subject to man.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Fishes of the southern states have also suffered heavily from insecticides used against cotton insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

After Abraham Lincoln was elected president in November, rumbles of rebellion swept the southern states. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

We don’t have them yet in New York—the unions have kept them out—but many states have been tempted by the prison companies’ promises of cost savings. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rumors were in fact true, though on all constitutional questions Jefferson deferred to Madison’s superior judgment, so he could accept the offer to become America's first secretary of state without political reservations. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

As for the fish, they were found to be in an advanced state of decay and had to be thrown into the garbage can. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once high school was finished, my parents insisted that I go to the States for college — and given the state of the universities in Congo, I agreed. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wants a message delivered to Ford’s Theatre saying that he will be in attendance this evening if the state box, the special seating section set aside for dignitaries and honored guests, is available. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The presiding judge upheld the M’Naghten Rule, and the jury gave the state the death penalty it demanded. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask Abuela if I can paint whatever I want in Cuba and she says yes, as long as I don’t attack the state. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

That was the period when divine good humor and the hidden forces of human nature acted with impunity to provoke a state of emergency and upheaval in the laws of physics and logic. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was feted by heads of state and featured in newspapers and magazines all over the world. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Over the years a variety of fruits and vegetables, grown in various states, have had to be rejected. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

One stated, “In developing countries, people with multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis usually die, because effective treatment is often impossible in poor countries.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Today, the Federal Republic of Germany is a thriving democracy with a federation of sixteen states. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was obvious to Ben that she was a lot more interested in the politics of homeroom than the muddled breastworks of state and local government. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

L’Hôpital’s rule states that the value of the fraction was equal to the derivative of the top expression divided by the derivative of the bottom expression. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She was concerned with the state of my soul. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A quarter get no farther than North Carolina, the next state. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Eleven southern states seceded from the United States, forming the Confederate States of America. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He looks unmoved, which makes me wonder about the state of his academic record. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He looked around for a good idea, and then bought the first Dairy Queen in the state. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They weren’t sure exacdy what they were looking for, but Bruno kept stating that a good explorer would know it when he found it. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2006-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was sober as a judge, I’d just like to point out, although I was in a bit of a state, distracted, panicky almost. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately for the slave, the creature's swollen state prevented the Firedrake from following him through the fissure in the rock. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some states have no minimum age for prosecuting children as adults; we’ve sent a quarter million kids to adult jails and prisons to serve long prison terms, some under the age of twelve. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It sounds crazy now, but for a long time veterinarians didn’t think an animal’s emotional state could affect its health. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

For all the team’s talent, the state tournament did not go well. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She met a marshmallow salesman at a school bazaar, and she married him in another state where it’s legal to get married before eighth grade. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first month of the trial was taken up by the state’s submission of evidence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

However they planned their water, that is how and in what directions the state would grow. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are twenty amino acids in all, and four letters could not specify twenty alternative states by themselves. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

From the perspective of the law, this was another moment where Dr. Strayer was touching on the state of mind of the person texting. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We could still imagine that there is a set of laws that determine events completely for some supernatural being, who could observe the present state of the universe without disturbing it. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Iofur’s armor was in a pitiful state by this time, the plates torn and distorted, the gold inlay torn out or smeared thickly with blood, and his helmet gone altogether. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Over time, twenty-five states, plus the District of Columbia, adopted the chair. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But recent archaeological investigations have revealed that at this time the Andes housed two mountain states, each much larger than previously appreciated. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mam is in a terrible state at home. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Where they had once dwelled all over North America they now lived in remote parts of Canada, in only two of the lower forty-eight states, and in the wilderness of Alaska. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Christians were outcasts—enemies to the state. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

So far, forty-six states and the District of Columbia have signed on to what is called the Common Core set of standards. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“War is not a normal thing for any country, for any state, for any man, and especially for a woman.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Just try to imagine how difficult it would have been to create states, or churches, or legal systems if we could speak only about things that really exist, such as rivers, trees and lions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took a few months, but Miller finally left for the state police academy; Feliciano, for the New York City police academy. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To maintain his power, Hitler quickly turned Germany into a police state. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Dignity is a state of mind, just like freedom. These are both precious gifts from God that no one can take away unless you allow them to.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The territory affected fay the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 included parts of what are currently known as the states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

By the late 1990s, the overwhelming majority of state and local police forces in the country had availed themselves of the newly available resources and added a significant military component to buttress their drug-war operations. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Meltdown—that’s the only word to describe my state of mind. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

More than 80 percent returned to state custody within three years of getting out. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Finally, another official appeared and showed Bobby an arrest warrant, stating that he was traveling on an invalid passport and that he was under arrest. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And we can, on occasion, deliberately alter some of these genes to change their functions, thereby resulting in altered human states, altered physiologies, and changed beings. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In particular, no two electrons of the same quantum state can be forced into the same spot. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In October, seventeen months after her arrest, the state withdrew its case without explanation, and Winnie was released. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made plans for the following day: he would venture farther toward downtown, he would revisit the I-10 overpass, he would check on the state of their office and warehouse over on Dublin Street. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The rationale stated by one rule-giver was that “there is in fact no person named for the him to refer to.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Mom, who is totally absorbed in her own state of affairs most of the time, decides to pick this day of all days to “reconnect” with me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I keep two fingers up, thinking of anywhere else we’ve been and if they count as a whole other state. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“And does the state of Maine have a mind to settle right here?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

In that state, she drove home, blind with anger and helplessness. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Even the earliest Mesopotamian states exercised centralized control of their economies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Councilman Hoede lost a great deal of blood, but he’s in the same state as these men. He’s been removed to the country with his family and the staff from his house.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Siaka Stevens returned to power in 1968, and several years later declared the country a one-party state, the APC being the sole legal party. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was midseason; Massari had run up ten wins in his first eleven matches, and he seemed headed for a strong performance in the state tournament. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Finally, Daddy started the truck and turned east on the state road, just two lanes in those days. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The state had allocated the house to Evelyn and me because we were no longer just two, but three. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On February 8, state and local police, erroneously believing that one of their officers had been shot by demonstrators, let loose a fusillade into a crowd of students gathered in front of a dormitory. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A trancelike state settles over your efforts; the climb becomes a clear-eyed dream. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this was entirely impracdcal, for he was used to sleeping on his right side, and in his present state he couldn't get himself into this posidon. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Welcome one and all to the state finals of this year’s Middle School Quiz Bowl competition,” said the emcee, Haley James, the weather reporter from the biggest TV station in the state. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

In a state of delirium, wavering between life and death, Bill would sometimes mutter, “They got Rita and now it looks like they’ve got me.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The state box is available, so the manager, James Ford, responds immediately, barely containing his excitement. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

For years, this was the state of affairs, and everybody was happy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Ladies and gentlemen, the very best football team in the state of Texas!” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alabama governor George Wallace supported Connor’s brutal methods and sent in reinforcements in the form of 500 state troopers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Truth is, in the state I was in yesterday, all I heard when Mama mentioned the dinner was “Jupiter will be joining us.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“How could a sled be state of the art?” said Julian. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Not for the first time, Leo was struck by how similar Greece was to his home state of Texas - the low hills, the scrubby trees, the drone of cicadas and the oppressive summer heat. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Let’s hit the road. You better grab that whole bag of candy cane truffles from the backseat. I think we need them in our emotionally fragile state.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

One Thursday night I received an invitation from a group of white boys I had known in the post office to meet in a South Side hotel and argue the state of the world. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, room 126 is a treasure trove of evidence: a map of Southern states, pistol rounds, a handkerchief embroidered with the name of Booth’s mother, and much more. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir. Prisoners state he was killed this morning. I believe Doubleday has succeeded him.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The trial was to be held in federal court," Dasch stated. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The statute does contain an opt-out provision, but as of 2010 only thirteen states and the District of Columbia had opted out entirely. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was also a document in my handwriting called “How to be a good Communist,” which the state suggested was proof that I was a card-carrying Communist. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s intent on it even though he’s much too good- looking for me, not to mention a state senator’s son. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Dude...you don’t honestly think Texas can go blue, do you? It’s one of the most backward states in the country.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Most of the rest, especially in the West, retreated to a sort of racing underground, a series of leaky-roof tracks scattered through Canada and the few American states where the sport had not been banned. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t trust a driver who had let his rickshaw get into such a state. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

A sectional understanding had emerged whereby northern states had agreed not to tamper with the property rights of southern states. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Before Prohibition, many states relied heavily on taxes from liquor sales to help fund their programs and expenses. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Paula was sitting next to Ifemelu a short while later when the flash of graphics appeared on the screen: Barack Obama had won the state of Virginia. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think she’s in the right state of mind to be an active member of this committee. I’m sorry, but this town is not ready for an opening number set to Beyonce.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“That fellow is in a state capable of saying anything,” he said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s actually nice to have it stated so clearly. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

On April 15, there was a court hearing that started with a request from Bunderson that the state of Utah pay for Reggie’s defense to hire expert witnesses. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

What remained was to select the athletes worthy of carrying the American flag into the heart of the Nazi state. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She was good at chess, too, to the point where she might have gone to the state championship if Poppy and Arielle hadn’t told her Nobody joins chess, Aru. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The state made a plea offer of twenty years, but it was never adequately communicated to Mr. Dill, so he went to trial, was convicted, and was sentenced to death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Naturally his father, in his present mental state, had no idea of opening the other wing of the door a bit to create a suitable passage for Gregor to get through. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Ben, Papa Will’s uncle, was a traveling minister who held revivals across the state. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My own mental state became more fragile when I went to the bathroom and saw blood on my underpants. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

After taking the reins of state, Pachakuti spent the next twenty-five years expanding the empire from central highland Peru to Lake Titicaca and beyond. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Posters announcing Klan rallies, bearing the slogan “Be a Man, Join the Klan,” became a common sight in store windows and on telephone poles in small towns and major cities across the state. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In time, human violence was brought under control through the development of larger social frameworks—cities, kingdoms and states. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of some 70 species of shrubs and vines that are typical roadside species in the eastern states alone, about 65 are important to wildlife as food. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Late in the despairing afternoon I stopped my truck and approached a majestic Maine state trooper. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The queen was really a simple soul and always, her whole life, had done nothing except state the overly obvious. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

She led several dozen marchers on a two-week hike from New York City to Albany, the state capital. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Shuffle the cards and you put them in a disordered state. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Governments across America at the time, including state legislatures and the US Congress, were too much under the influence of big business for the workers to gain the benefits they hoped the strikes would bring. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Lord Darlington called me into his study, and I could see at once that he was in a state of some agitation. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

At the time of my visit, the Nisqually had been annoying state authorities for decades, tenaciously pursuing what they believed to be their right to fish on their ancestral fishing grounds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As the players left the Miramar Hotel to go home to their respective countries or states, Bobby simply refused to check out. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Would you want your state governments run by people who don’t know how to run ’em? Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

And north of Pando is the Brazilian state of Acre, which is also lightly inhabited, but which has seen much of its forest removed to create cattle ranches. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Corrupt, did you say,” Father stated, rather than asked, after locating where the cat had put his tongue. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he begins to lecture Amit about the state of the Bangladeshi economy, I sit quietly and finish my fourth cup of tea since the morning. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

From what I could gather, the company had bribed a bunch of state officials in exchange for contracts to build a better sewer overflow system in Indianapolis. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

When she was sent on errands, she saw other wards in similar states of preparation. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Now they had a new proposition: seven years in state prison. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I had to either take back my words or live with the consequences of stating what was becoming the truth. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Maurice’s dry English form did not permit enthusiasm as he stated that the picture showed much more detail than previous pictures and could, in fact, be considered as arising from a crystalline substance. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“Some of us know better than others the...state...it was left in,” he had said. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

While they were on the road, the state fed, clothed, and housed them—all from goods supplied by other work crews. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He worked his way into a job as a road trooper, then a state investigator. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Appalachian Trail runs for 230 miles in a northeasterly arc across the state, like the broad end of a slice of pie. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s . . . it’s an honor to represent the great state of Colorado.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I don’t doubt that. But we don’t know what state of mind you’ll be in when the death serum begins to take its course, and these codes need to be deeply ingrained.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Prison regulations stated that no child between the ages of two and sixteen may visit a prisoner. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is less helpful than it might seem, however, because the palace complex occupied a large area—as Strabo states elsewhere, up to a third of the extent of the entire city. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Neither the Revolution nor the infant republic could have succeeded without the support of the southern states, so Adams had deferred to the Virginians to assume leadership of the antislavery movement. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Chester was still sitting by the closed kitchen door in a state of shock. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s elementary grammar. The human specifically stated that entry was forbidden as long as he was alive. That’s tantamount to an invitation when he’s dead.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The topiaries that had once been pruned with aspirations toward the baroque finished in a hopeless, tortured state, besieged by snails and disease. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1608, several Protestant states joined together as the Protestant Union, while their rivals formed the Catholic League the following year. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Let me say in advance that in over ten thousand miles, in thirty-four states, I was not recognized even once. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the bell rang, the class had returned to the normal state of boredom and disinterest. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

New laws were passed in the slave states and the old laws were more rigidly enforced. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Officials from the state of Mississippi, where the boy had been murdered, did not even bother to clean up the body of Emmett Till. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were also times I witnessed heated arguments between my friends and their moms that left me in a catatonic state. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

For the state, a death sentence would be the most practical verdict. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled Rocinante into a small picnic area maintained by the state of Connecticut and got out my book of maps. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did not tell her this, but they reproached her for hiding her terrible state from them, her own sisters. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some princes have disarmed their subjects in order to hold the state securely. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had a nice smile, a pretty wife who had been runner-up in a state beauty contest fourteen years ago, and two good-looking kids. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, the information about a body’s “state” is transmitted from parents to offspring during conception. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Walter resolved to go and I helped him arrange for a substitute passport, an affidavit stating his identity and citizenship. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie wondered, if it was so good, why he hadn’t matriculated there instead of at the university of another midwestern state. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No rhyme or reason to how the state does its business.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

His plan was to make sure that Gabriel’s picture was in every newspaper in the state. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The doorway Booth used to access the state box hallway is to the right of the state box. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I yelled, as we passed by the green sign on the side of the bridge that read, state line—Maine. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Jordan, while a modern Middle Eastern state, was not an easy place for a woman used to Western freedoms. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was the state motto of Virginia: “Thus always to tyrants.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I write, We have greater nutritional resources than other states? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The state of Virginia produces no chocolate to speak of. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In fact, the very man whose name symbolizes non-violence here today has stated: ‘ ‘Our nation was bom in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many, perhaps most, early states adopted slavery on a much larger scale than did chiefdoms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

All of Hotel Barba was in a constant state of waiting for papers to come in. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

People in different states in India speak different languages, and I'm lucky because I know more than one. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Yup. Went missing day before yesterday. Just disappeared. That whole side of the state is talking about it.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He had one pair of brogues and the soles were in a miserable state. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I found another four-leaf clover and a penny in a parking lot, and one time we drove across the state line into Tennessee, which is good for wishing if you clap three times first. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He ended up getting a job at one of the few hatcheries in the state that wasn’t owned by Mr. Lyndon. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

They would remain stable in this state for a long time as stars like our sun, burning hydrogen into helium and radiating the resulting energy as heat and light. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The injunctions against the wrong kinds of investigation were so sharp that the parson-naturalists did not even question the myths of creation; it was the perfect separation of church and mental state. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“In another work I shall discuss, if time and health permit, the variability of organic beings in a state of nature,” Darwin had written in 1868. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Three weeks later, he set a state record of 4:50.6. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I had a sudden picture of schools in every one of the forty-eight states grinding out millions and millions of sheets of paper covered with leaning letters exactly alike. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As pressure in the star increases, the exclusion principle states that electrons inside must move faster and faster to avoid one another. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

When Quincey saw the attitude and state of the patient, and noted the horrible pool on the floor, he said softly:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

But there are also two other potential advantages inherent in chiefdoms and states. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the real danger came from the mob itself, its righteous state of mind. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

For the following forty-six years, the state of Alabama refused to erase from its books the names of the two thousand arrested children. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In states with high abortion rates, the entire decline in crime was among the post-Roe cohort as opposed to older criminals. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I was in the most vulnerable state imaginable. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But another, much larger part of the answer was first stated firmly by Henry Dobyns. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“And who do you think you’re kidding? You know you’ve got a sweet deal going. You get your check from the state every month to keep my kid. You’re in this for the money.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I was stating a fact for him, and for myself. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Byrd, a former governor, descended from a “First Family of Virginia,” one of the state’s multigenerational ruling elite. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He and Eric always looked to see if potatoes were from Idaho, one of the few manifestations of loyalty to their home state. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It therefore seems equally reasonable to suppose that there are also laws governing the initial state. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The announcement meant that nine of the state’s ten largest banking organizations now needed an aggregate sum of money from public and private sources well into the tens of billions to stay afloat. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kellerman arrived on the scene a few minutes later to find us in much the same state as we had been before. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to see it written out like that, stated so plainly by my now-deceased father, it was like a hand squeezing my heart. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I was brought out of my abstracted state by a salmon-colored cloud passing low in the sky. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was fascinating to think about all the things you could learn there: Galileo’s acceleration experiment, the dissection of rabbits, and making materials change state in a test tube. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband had always stated most emphatically that he wished all his children to be educated in English schools. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

With eight years to prepare, he erected a first-rate viewing station, tested and retested his instruments, and had everything in a state of perfect readiness. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The court said the prosecution had failed to prove that the ANC was a Communist organization or that the Freedom Charter envi-sioned a Communist state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others moved into the few spaces available at Harlem Valley, a former state mental hospital about forty-five minutes from Sing Sing that was now used to house correction officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s in a state of panic and completely unreachable, so I do what I would do anyway. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

A clerk asked her to state her name. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t proper sleep, but a state of semi-consciousness in which daydreams and reality were nearly indistinguishable. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

With budgets busting, more than two dozen states have reduced or eliminated harsh mandatory minimum sentences, restored early-release programs, and offered treatment instead of incarceration for some drug offenses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Although there are several memorials to the deaths of these young people in other states, there has been no significant effort on the part of Birmingham and Alabama citizenry to remember these sacrifices appropriately.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even the Merriam-Webster definition, which states “to speak or perform without preparation,” is highly misleading. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Cager Lee, the eighty-two-year-old grandfather of Jimmie Lee Jackson, killed by a state trooper two weeks earlier, could walk only a few miles each day. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s how we remove mold from the beans and restore them to their original state. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The abuses that have followed from these policies—the sprawling carceral state, the random detention of black people, the torture of suspects—are the product of democratic will. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She hopes she doesn’t get flattened by a car before she even gets out of her own state. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I didn’t understand how he could get so big, or how he could survive in that unhealthy state. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I looked at more albums, like the Beatles’ White Album, which I never knew was actually white, and each time I looked up, Aaron and Nia were in a deeper state of entanglement. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you know? All the Hindus and Sikhs have to leave. We are supposed to stay,” she stated plainly. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Soon the state people were making plans to take over all of my mother’s children. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of those who fled were reportedly undergoing guerilla training in neighbouring black states under the aegis of Umkhonto We Sizwe. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toward the end of the summer I accidentally over- heard a conversation that shook me out of my state of blissful ignorance. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Lourdes turns and strides past Brooklyn’s sooty town hall, past the state supreme court, where the Son of Sam trial will take place. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought it might be good to get some signatures while people are in a compliant state.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“I believe,” concluded Scott, “if Congress should at any time be of the opinion that a state of slavery was a quality inadmissible in America, they would not be barred...of prohibiting this baneful quality.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It felt like a referendum not only on Barack’s political performance and the state of the country but also on his character, on our very presence in the White House. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She would have suffered lying next to me in such a state. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The suffrage movement, while having made great progress at the state level, badly needed a dramatic happening at the national level if it was to succeed. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Permian scored three touchdowns in the second half to defeat Port Arthur Jefferson 28-19 and win its third state championship in one of the great upsets in modern Texas high school history. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having criminalized interracial sex and marriage, states throughout the South would use the laws to justify the forced sterilization of poor and minority women. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Again, if we knew how the Euclidean curved space-times in the sum over histories behaved at early times, we would know the quantum state of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strauss seethed as Oppenheimer outlined the state of the arms race between America and the Soviet Union. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Effie Trinket is disgruntled about the state her wig was in. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When Ophie had seen the floor in her aunt’s house, she’d thought it the finest floor ever, and that that was what it meant to live in the northern states. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“When I said that he improved on acquaintance, I did not mean that his mind or his manners were in a state of improvement, but that, from knowing him better, his disposition was better understood.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

The majority are scattered in other parts of the state or the country, but around four thousand reside in Osage County, above the underground reservation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When historical or archaeological dates are examined in detail, they fail to support the view of irrigation as the driving force for state formation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She gets a gun and I move out of state fast. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents were publishing a book about living in fifty states, for Pete’s sake. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But while the replacement legislation eliminates the requirement that people use the bathroom for the gender they were assigned at birth, it keeps state legislators in charge of future bathroom policies. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We were “state children,” court wards; he had the full say-so over us. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we give the vacuum a big enough nudge, it might start rolling down the hill—settling into a lower energy state—and we would not be able to stop it. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Because of the state of the roads he beat them to the hospital in Seattle, flying through the clouds in a medevac helicopter. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The law stated that a passport “shall not be issued to an applicant subject to a federal arrest warrant or subpoena for any matter involving a felony.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The President had sent a telegram to Governor Faubus saying he was sure the governor, the National Guard, and other state officials would give full cooperation to the United States Supreme Court. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would be told shortly who our new head of state was. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

As far as the state of Mississippi is concerned, this is not about race, it’s just another murder. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

It had sat in that same location for decades and had a loyal following of people who would cross boroughs and state lines to buy bread and pastries there. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Grandma,” I said, “is trapping fish legal in this state?” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

In my dazed and sleepy state, I feel a surge of joy, as if Secret Santa has arrived and I am a little kid again. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

My mom walks around in a fugue state. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The adjoining racetrack had been torn down, and now more than five hundred companies contracted by the Nazi state were at work preparing the site for the Olympic Games. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The fort is in a sorry state, admittedly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I take it you have perused the laws of your state? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

As the only state prison for women, Tutwiler has no way to meaningfully classify and assign women to appropriate dorms. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But only two states listed it among their 20 most important insect pests, and these placed it near the bottom of the list. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Just look at the state I’m in. And it was my best coat and waistcoat, too.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Celibacy was the only state she had known. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Youth League was marginally more friendly to the Indians and the Coloureds, stating that Indians, like Africans, were oppressed, but that Indians had India, a mother country that they could look to. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s what those state troopers did, put together accident scenes based on the physical evidence. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Standards: Common Core or National Standards: Which state content and developmental standards are addressed in my lesson? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In 144 school districts in eleven Southern and border states, desegregation happened in a peaceful manner, with no need for the federal government to intervene. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They knew Cade could keep an eye on their epileptic boy, but I thought it was all part of the master plan to ensure Finn Easton’s atoms would never escape the state of California. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Stone argued that a federal amendment would be easier to obtain once women showed that they could manage the vote on a state level. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The state engineer, Nelson Bookman, and his personal special assistant, Rudy Noyes, knew more water law than the rest of the state put together. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such a state is less ordered, or more disordered, than the original state in which all the molecules were in one half. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes! The attic used to be my room, if you can believe that. Of course, it was not in such a state when I was here,” she said with a high laugh. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He ran down for them a history of other conservancy districts in the state which had effectively destroyed subsistence farmers by forcing them into cash economies where they could not compete. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calpurnia was sitting in a haughty dignity that appeared on state occasions, and with it appeared erratic grammar. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The report stated that the financial management of the fair “can only be characterized as shamefully extravagant.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A state court issued an injunction, and the mob eventually dissipated. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The visitor, for her part, was teetering on the absolute brink of the brown chair in what Gilly took to be a state of total shock. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Look at the state of his robes,” Malfoy would say in a loud whisper as Professor Lupin passed. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

This tacit reserve had never been so clearly stated before. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There is certainly something to ponder over in this man’s state. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Further inland, where southern distilleries were churning out moonshine to meet demand, drivers fitted their cars with special shocks and roomy compartments that allowed them to safely transport bottles of liquor throughout the Appalachian states. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

No one said a word, but we all knew that WDFD’s signal barely reached across the state, let alone the continent. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

But North Carolina is three states north, and it’s suddenly impossible to imagine that Roli won’t be here in the fall. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She can state the cause first or the effect first, and the causal force can either make something happen or prevent it from happening. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

This was the first place on earth where the man mattered more than the state. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know village ... no ... the town they live in, and . . . and province ... no, state.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only navigational aid in his possession was a tattered state road map he’d scrounged at a gas station. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Einstein stated that if a number of people watch the same phenomenon—say, the flight of a raven toward a tree, the laws of physics are the same for each observer. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In 1910, Washington became the first state to pass suffrage legislation in fourteen years. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

One day last December, Pap come home in a turrible state after he spent a afternoon working on the Tanner plantation. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The state has decided not to charge the crime in this form. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, states that arise quickly, just like all the other natural things that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and branches and will be wiped out by the first adverse weather. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

She ought a be the most sought-after help in the state. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Their prominence constitutes a strong argument for an infusion of healthy skepticism into our schools, a state of mind generally incompatible with innumeracy. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to the lack of hot meals, they slept on the filthy ground where state fair animals had been previously housed. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But Priddy was concerned that his attempts to achieve eugenic sterilizations would still be challenged by state and federal courts. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Now, isn’t it a dreadful state of things?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without the strong support of life with his parents and siblings under one roof and chafing under foster parents and teachers imposing limited state policies, Malcolm simply dropped out. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no use trying to talk to librarians when they’re in that state. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I’d prefer that he stay on his side of the state line.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

"I certainly couldn't give a certificate. I have no knowledge whatsoever of the woman's state of health." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

When John died in a helicopter crash during the Vietnam War, Marti returned to the United States in a state of stunned disbelief. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Europe’s fragmentation did, and China’s unity didn’t, foster the advance of technology, science, and capitalism by fostering competition between states and providing innovators with alternative sources of support and havens from persecution. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If the Stingers did the shooting, or us, someone would be halfway to the state pen by now. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She lived now amid memories and dreams, and in this state the old village stories grew near again. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I ventured that if the state decided to use peaceful methods, the ANC would also use peaceful means. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly lowered my Blue Nun and we drove on, acting cool as the state trooper passed on our left. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She also pointed out that the federal rights established by the Fourteenth Amendment took precedence over states’ rights, arguing that the states could not prohibit women from voting. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Wear your seat belt in the car,” David states. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was in a state of utter panic. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We know that to generate our magnetic field somewhere in the interior there must be a concentrated belt of metallic elements in a liquid state. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She was now, on being settled at home, at leisure to observe the real state of her sister’s spirits. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“It seems quixotic today, with jet airplanes and overdoses of Nembutal, that a man would go through a war for something so insignificant as his state.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

For the purposes of the state, colored people became the almost-whites. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In 1605, Paul V had been elected Pope, and he made a determined effort to extend the authority of the Church and tighten the papal grip on Catholic states. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He realized quickly the strange doorkeeper resembled certain of the Fair Folk he had once seen in Eiddileg’s kingdom; only this individual seemed in a woeful state of disrepair. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

In February, the states that had seceded formed a new union called the Confederate States of America. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Magdalys had read stories about Haiti in the papers: a free black state. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Starting before she was born, her parents had bounced from state to state because, in their words, “that’s where our paychecks pulled us.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It’s entirely impossible to drive seventy-seven miles per hour on the two-lane state highway that takes us farther north, up toward the Catskills. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the negative sentiment override state, people draw lasting conclusions about each other. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Those on the committee received due praise from the returning council members and from the state legislature, but voices of criticism were also heard. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The most flagrant abuses go unchecked in both state and federal agencies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

This individual was so nearly destroyed that he had passed into that calm, quiet mental state that immediately precedes death by drowning. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a state of tense, breathless boredom. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

As the flight continues north, look west, at the hills of what are now the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Guerrero. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

For much of his fifteen years as Virginia’s president, Casteen has focused on raising money and expanding the university, the most prestigious in the state. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The state racing board, tired of the whole mess, realized that the race’s nonbetting status gave them an out because the public had not been defrauded. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of a faceless state or community, crime victims were featured at trial, and criminal cases took on the dynamics of a traditional civil trial, pitting the family of the victim against the offender. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Many states—more than thirty, in fact—had passed laws protecting the confidentiality of a patient’s medical records, but Maryland was not one of them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the middle of it all, with family members in a state of ire over their love affair, she got cold feet. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

No doubt Marina risked getting in trouble with her sponsor and the state, but she made the right decision. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When the bus arrives, I breathe a sigh of relief ’cause if I swallow one more drop of frozen air, my vocal cords might go into a state of hypothermia. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Alba spent two days walking around the house in circles in a state of sheer despair, going through the books in Jaime’s tunnel and on her own shelves and destroying anything that might be compromising. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was falling into a state of shock. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps following the lead of the state’s chief executive, Durham first used the bureaucratic device that could be called “Death by Committee.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, Judge Willmore decided to have the defense and state split the cost of the witnesses. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“For sure. They started from the state of Missouri, went by here, and ended up in California or Oregon. They did that for twenty years.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, why don’t you ask him in? Don’t make him state his business on the steps.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Garcia speaks slow, her voice rising like a question, “New York is one of our—” “Oh, oh, I know. Fifty states,” says Sabeen. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Adina had gone to state twice with the Quarry Quarrelers debate team. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Words of the state song hummed through my memory: Way down South in Mississippi, Cotton blossoms white in the sun. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tribes conquer or combine with tribes to reach the size of chiefdoms, which conquer or combine with other chiefdoms to reach the size of states, which conquer or combine with other states to become empires. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They sped across the state of North Carolina, across the oceans. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

To summarize, we see that unemployment remains the state’s major economic and social problem. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It would give physicists the first direct evidence that the big bang was correct and that steady state was wrong. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

We were from different states, and we struck up a friendship outside of practice. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I was in a severe state of depression the first few weeks because no one spoke to me. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I wanted to make it clear to the bench, the gallery, and the press that I intended to put the state on trial. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Christian saw a need to make economies in just about every area of state activity, and among many other things immediately withdrew the mainland estates granted to Tycho by Frederick II from his stewardship. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

In each of those modes his face would light up accordingly, moving, easily and deftly, from one state to another. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1919, however, one southern state legislature after another had passed laws preventing these men from exercising this right. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In this state of ease, Pauline stopped doing day work and returned to her own housekeeping. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fanaticism in war, of the type that drove recorded Christian and Islamic conquests, was probably unknown on Earth until chiefdoms and especially states emerged within the last 6,000 years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were anything but describable, having been conceived, manufactured, shipped, and sold in various states of thoughtlessness, greed, and indifference. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

What happens next is not completely clear, but it seems likely that the central regions of the star would collapse to a very dense state, such as a neutron star or black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says, You can’t be delivering coal with the state of your eyes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Only the state engineer was smoking and the smoke from his cigarette curled quietly in the still air. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d work hard, get himself well-known and trusted, and eventually be elected to the House of Representatives from his state. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was degrading to have to depend so thoroughly on a person who had been educated at a state university. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The letter quoted the section of the fellowship award stating that the fellowship was valid only for work in the designated institution. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Led by South Carolina, a total of eleven slaveholding states in the South have left the Union and formed a separate nation, the Confederate States of America. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“This place is in such a shocking state of disrepair and neglect that it’s a menace to health. Even a sewer is better. Clean it up or you’ll all die.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning in late 2001, when Whitiker was alone and the apartment was uncharacteristically quiet, the mail arrived and, in it, an envelope from the state boards. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Flashing in defiance one moment, in uncomprehending terror the next, they rolled far back in their sockets, giving a clear and chilling view into the state of his tortured mind. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time Walter was set free, Alabama was not among the handful of states that provided aid to innocent people released from prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Much of the state’s revenue was derived not from direct taxation, but from duties placed on goods moving in and out of the port. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“My mom drove me nuts with her citizenship test. She doesn’t know even the basic facts, like each state has two senators.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

This map shows the homelands of the Pequot Nation, relative to neighboring nations in what are currently called the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I plan to live to be a hundred,” she stated. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

California is virtually alone among the states in having a formal program in biological control, and many states have not even one entomologist who devotes full time to it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

This state of affairs produced a temporary anarchy and a state of mind bordering on hysteria, particularly among the planter elite. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It turns out Mama was in the women’s state prison and Dusty was in another jail in Florida. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Their touch, combined with a touch from me and/or Sheed, can unstick a person, permanently freeing them from their frozen state. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But I demand, in the name of the people of this state, that this man die for these crimes! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I looked down at myself, only then realizing the state I was in. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was not boasting, I was simply stating a fact. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

If a prince holds on to his state by means of mercenary armies, he will never be stable or secure. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that if Frank became upset enough, he could kill the guy, but he probably wouldn’t reach that state. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It’s actually made of seven emirates, which are like states, but more like principalities, because they’re owned by seven princes called emirs. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Your Radiance has stated the case much better than I could have hoped to do myself. I see that you are eloquent as well as beautiful. I am quite persuaded.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some states, like Virginia, simply refused to comply: in 1936, a black student from Richmond named Alice Jackson Houston applied to the University of Virginia to study French, but she was denied admission. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The party’s stated goal: the same rights for all of humankind. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He wanted to go to Godric’s Hollow, even if Bathilda was in no fit state to talk to him; he wanted to visit the place where he and Dumbledore had both lost loved ones. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Bridey Hannon told Mam that Mrs. Meagher is in a constant state of shame over the rags they wear and so desperate she goes down to the Dispensary for the public assistance. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They repeated Mayor Nagin’s assertion that the city had devolved into an “animalistic state.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

When Charley Bloom answered, two men in state police uniforms, both men wearing sunglasses, were standing on the front stoop. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before sentencing, I informed the court that whatever sentence the state imposed, it would do nothing to change my devotion to the struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we crossed the Alabama state line, I was ready to claw my way into the trunk. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In most European states, he went on to argue, it was probably necessary for the monarchy to remain hereditary for the foreseeable future, in order to permit a more gradual transition to full-blown republican principles. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

For kids of color, the ratios were reversed—two-thirds served time in state facilities, while one-third received probation or jail. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

This is a regular procedure provided for by the enlightened and progressive laws of our state. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Going into the state hospital was easier having an adult with me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adams also received many requests from federal and state committees charged with organizing the celebration of what was being called “the Jubilee of Independence.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

That evening, the news from each state gradually came in by telegraph to Lawnfield’s campaign office. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was in a terrible state, for she found that she could neither take her eyes off him nor look at him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

More commonly, two states joined when their rulers married. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was in this state as they came round the eastern edge of the resort after three hours' walking. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I commended these three men as individuals, not as representatives of the court or of the state or even of their race, but as exemplars of human decency under adversity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deed said, “Yeah, well, such is life. You think I’m going to give up the best gig in the state just ’cause you’d be offended? Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

If he had observed both peace and faith, he would have had either his reputation or his state taken away from him many times over. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Grayson continued, “‘The winning piece for the entire state is awarded a cash prize of twenty-five dollars and publication of the story.’” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

One: in his state of panic he may not have heard the scream. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was probably the only teenager in the state who wasn’t scared of the witch. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The state was determined to prove that I was a dangerous, violence-spouting Communist. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ten states with the highest average temperatures in the country that summer were all in the West. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The slaughter of six million Jews would have meaning only on the day a Jewish state was established. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In Lingala, animal is just the plural form of meat — which tells you a lot about the state of wildlife conservation in Congo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A well-documented example is the origin of the Zulu state, in southeastern Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

After the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, black women were still prevented from voting in many states because of white supremacist laws already in place. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Vernon was last seen two days ago; family members stated he had been acting unusually quiet the past week. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

And as in states and communities, so in individual Americans this hunger for decent association with the past. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two states. What do you think about that?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the question of assuming the state debts, Madison's opposition struck Hamilton as even more illogical and blatantly sinister. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Jo March, you are perverse enough to provoke a saint! You don’t intend to make calls in that state, I hope,” cried Amy, surveying her with amazement. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Don't you think we should go . . . ?" "Isn't it, though? She was in a state for months . . ." her expression flickered, became indeterminate. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ruled that the demonstrators had a legal and constitutional right to carry out that march, and that state and local officials were forbidden to interfere. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He delivered the report to Roosevelt on November 27, with a covering letter stating that he was forming an engineering team and accelerating all other necessary research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Attribution is typically indicated by connectives like according to and stated that. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The only thing that brought me down to earth was the visit to the state hospital in Kalamazoo. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ulbrickson was also the least talkative man on campus, perhaps in the state, legendary for his reticence and the inscrutability of his countenance. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

So after gravitational collapse a black hole must settle down into a state in which it could be rotating, but not pulsating. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The no boundary proposal for the universe predicts the existence of a well-defined thermodynamic arrow of time because the universe must start off in a smooth and ordered state. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first night she brought out a story about a three-year-old boy who knew the capitals of all the states and even most of the European countries. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he Googled “feral pig,” from which he learned that wild pigs were so widely disliked that the state of Tennessee pretty much allowed you to shoot one whenever you came across it. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

To green activists, as the University of Wisconsin historian William Cronon has written, restoring this long-ago, putatively natural state is a task that society is morally bound to undertake. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was a brief documentary about the previous year’s state finals. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The last time Josiah had seen them, the cattle had been wandering southwest along the boundary between the reservation and state land. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It would not help her state of mind, to go down looking like, or believing she looked like, Shirley Temple. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Two years later, a handful of states had succeeded in banning texting or use of handheld phones by all drivers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Students had to pass a battery of tests from the state department of education, not to mention faculty interviews, and even a psychological exam. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

It took a minute or two, but as soon as it was quiet again, Mr. Chatham cleared his voice and said, “The state will not seek the death penalty in this case.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

And the state didn’t exercise a monopoly on prosecutions, either: any citizen could bring a case against any other citizen—thus giving rise to a succession of nakedly political or grudge-motivated trials. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

A second theory claimed that it had to do with the comparatively high level of literacy in the state. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His boys’ team had won the state championship that year. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

At the computer lab Mrs. Johnson says, Our project is on the state of Virginia. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twice a week the results of the state basketball tournament were posted on the plywood roadrunner in the courtyard. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Apartheid was a police state, a system of surveillance and laws designed to keep black people under total control. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Were you not aware, Senorita Minerva, that Virgilio Morales is an enemy of state?” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped out of the closet, leaving dusty footprints across the carpet, and was scolded by Celia when she saw the state of his clothes and hair. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in this way she got the media’s funhouse picture of the state of the city via her husband’s relatives halfway around the world. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Even in his ailing state White assisted Grove with the book, as if he were consumed by an unsolved case, until the manuscript was completed. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then Van Helsing turned and said gravely; so gravely that I could not help feeling that he was in some way inspired, and was stating things outside himself:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Everything was in a state of disarray—sewing projects abandoned upon the spinnet, shutters drawn, dogs sleeping on the settee, dirty plates and platters still lain on the table, the food crusted to their rims. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“My poor Gareth! What a state you have got yourself in!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A painting of the inside of the state box at Ford’s Theatre. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Despite his misgivings Olmsted left the completion of the exposition landscape in the hands of Ulrich and adopted a punishing schedule of work and travel that took him through sixteen states. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

If a Pogrebin is allowed to tail a human for many hours, a sense of great futility will overcome its prey, who will eventually fall into a state of lethargy and despair. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When people are in a stagnant state, and are being brought out of it, there is no time for voting!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dingane, the half brother of Shaka, then ruled the most powerful African state that ever existed south of the Limpopo River. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

X, regarding him hostilely, stated that he didn’t want an Eisenhower jacket. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Although “debtor’s prison” is illegal in all states, many states use the threat of probation or parole revocation as a debt-collection tool. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

What began as an audacious federal program has spread to every state in the nation and nearly every city. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There really isn’t any use telling her now, in this state. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The justice system employed almost 2.4 million people in 2003—58 percent of them at the local level and 31 percent at the state level. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Leaving the mess hall with food was theft of state property, an offense right out of the book. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before long, they petitioned the state to change the prison’s name back to Sing Sing, and in 1983, the state did. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was sometimes necessary to kill people, for example; and it was so much less troubling for the assassin if he could do so in a state of grace. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Have state or federal officials offered you immunity or clemency if you changed your plea?” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The goal of the Lagos Conference of Independent States was to unite all African states, but it eventually disintegrated into bickering about which states to include or exclude. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few months after we arrived, a group of Delaware state troopers stopped a group of us on a dark highway one night after my older brother David, who was driving, made an illegal U-tum. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he learns I know almost nothing about Minnesota he tells me all about it—how it became a state just over seventy years ago and is now the twelfth largest in the United States. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

This was extraordinary, but we were too well versed in the devious ways of the state to celebrate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The universe could have started out in a very smooth and ordered state. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hounded him even after death — the state confiscated his ashes after his cremation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The proclamation also stated that the union leaders, with great patriotic spirit, had reduced their demands to two points: a reform of medical services and the building of latrines in the living quarters. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

"Up, up! We have matters of state to discuss." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Within East Asia, China’s head start in food production, technology, writing, and state formation had the consequence that Chinese innovations also contributed heavily to developments in neighboring regions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was, then, necessary to disturb the political balance of Italy and throw the Italian states into turmoil so that he could safely make himself the master of a part of them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was known that I had visited Ross, had taken notes on his life, and it was believed that I had been politically influenced by him, though in what way was not stated. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the rest areas in three states became as familiar as my home. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

One of Alfred’s cousins and contemporaries, Henry Stimson, would distinguish himself in public service with one stint as secretary of state and two as secretary of war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The next day, two of the New York newspapers gave it two inches in which they stated that Mrs. O’Leary of Williamsburg had been shot by a prowler in the hallway of her home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would deny the claims of murder and damage to innocent bystanders that the state alleged; either these claims were outright lies, or the incidents were the work of someone else. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My purpose was to capture a physical state or movement that carried a strong subjective impression, an accomplishment which seemed supremely worth struggling for. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never missed, and once he had heard you speak, he could name your state. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

That explained why the town was still in such a sorry state. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Most of the list came from the state eighth grade curriculum: barometer, decagon, perpendicular . Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

In the early 1800s in the southwestern and western states, there was a prohibition against playing musical instruments and dancing by certain religious organizations. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Right next to Belhaven be the downtown and the state capital. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She unfolded it, then pointed in triumph to the bottommost corner of the state. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It was something to pull me out of my limited mortal ways and thrust me into a state of exalted wonder. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I have no desire to see the poor girl in such an unpleasant state.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

For twenty years, over the entire life span of the revolutionary war and the experiment with republican government, Washington had stood at the helm of the ship of state. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Previous Maya states had been run by all-powerful monarchs who embodied the religion and monopolized trade. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

McCandless was hardly unique; there’s quite a few of these guys hanging around the state, so much alike that they’re almost a collective cliche. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His refrigerator was covered with magnets shaped like states, and he had an egg timer that looked like a chicken. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Because of her castle, she was able to escape the popular uprising and to wait until help arrived from Milan in order to regain her state. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Latecomers are directed to the adjacent streets, where they can watch the event on screens as it's televised live by the state. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

California would be the ninth state for Emily in her twelve and three-quarters years, all part of her parents’ quest to live once in each of the fifty states. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Dr. Strayer said that, in a few states, like California, talking on a phone was illegal while driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Ptolemy III Euergetes wished to borrow from Athens the original manuscripts or official state copies of the great ancient tragedies of Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a free woman of the state of Vermont, earning her own way in the world. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The same condition of hysteria exists all over this state. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The biggest swamp in Georgia was across the state. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s true what they say, it’s a trance state, giving birth or being there, you lose track of the rest of your life, you focus only on that one instant. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one point, city leaders started sending food and other supplies into the black districts, whose residents, after days of burnings, lootings, and shootings, were in a state of near starvation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

We know, of course, that each of our states is an individual and proud of it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition, the larger scale of state warfare made more captives available. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bram announced that certain parts of the state’s evidence would be conceded by the accused, and there was a buzz in the court. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One would therefore expect a system of massive objects to settle down eventually to a stationary state, because the energy in any movement would be carried away by the emission of gravitational waves. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Paul stated, “We said we would have a perpetual delegation right in front of the White House, so he wouldn’t forget.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Board of Education, civil rights activists used direct-action tactics in an effort to force reluctant Southern states to desegregate public facilities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Murray was not the only Crown witness who did little to advance the state’s case. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a social worker who lived in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, which is 160 miles from the state capital. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The Confederate states chose to secede from the United States rather than let the federal government, led by Lincoln, limit slavery. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He has seborrheic dermatitis, which means that his skin appears to be constantly in a state of rash. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But no one ever said anything too loudly, because everyone knew he needed to be on the field if their team had a chance of going to state. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

On other issues, his view of states’ rights was gummier. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He was still in a state of shock—relief so strong can also drain the blood. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The plaque below the turkey states a very important fact: Wild male turkeys leave the moms behind to care for the young while they go on with their lives. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Before being led away in irons to the state penitentiary, Burkhart turned and smiled wanly at Mollie. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Listen to this here. Mah New York Yankees have been sold to a sny-dee-kat for two million and eight hundred thousand dollahs. That there’s about enough to buy the whole state of Georgia.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bailey asks, in a state of mild disbelief. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He needed to find the one person left whose clarity never failed him, and unless he was out of the state, iMilkman was determined to find him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, the feature transmitted through heredity was not even corporeal: a manner of walking, say, or a way of staring into space, or even a state of mind. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Your book is about us living in all fifty states. We have a lot more to go before we’re done. If we stop now, you won’t be able to write your book.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I have never been outside the state of California in the nearly seventeen years that my atoms and molecules have been stuck together, walking around and calling themselves Finn. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then I stated my business, namely, that Papa wanted him to let me use Big Red and Satan and the covered wagon. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In his more public moments, Father Pinckney tried to hide his southern accent, but even through the Latin and the incense the state of Tennessee was advertised and glorified each time he spoke a word. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Strauss feels that emotionally I’m still in that adolescent state where being close to a woman, or thinking of sex, sets off anxiety, panic, even hallucinations. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

After several people died in skirmishes, nine workers among them, state militia arrived, armed with Winchester rifles and Gatling machine guns. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Nabis, Prince of the Spartans, withstood a siege by all of Greece and by one of Rome’s most victorious armies, and he defended his native city and his own state against them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

An official release by the state agency merely declared that the beetle had “put in its appearance” in the areas designated for the aerial attack upon it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

This state of excitement kept on for some little time; and at last we saw before us the Pass opening out on the eastern side. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

But today, civil rights is a dominating issue in every state, crowding the pages of the press and the daily conversation of white Americans. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He regarded himself as the father of the whole state; the people in it were his children; the misery of each one was his too. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

These men had seen combat, and were well informed about the state of the exile movement. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Listen to this publication calling him the third best running back in the state. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those farsighted people chose to merge their inefficient little chiefdoms into a larger state capable of blessing them with large-scale irrigation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

While the channeling of stimulus dollars to law enforcement may help some police officers keep their jobs at a time when state and local budgets are being slashed, there is a cost. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

By invoking a state of emergency, Hitler was able to suspend Germany's constitution. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

First he called out the state guard, ordering them to patrol Boston’s streets the next day. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“What is wrong with this picture,” he stated instead of asked. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The smartest kids from all over the state will be there,” said Jake. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He finally became worried about the state of his animals and he threw an oilcloth over his head and sent to Petra Cotes’s house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The supposition that there is an intermediate state between these two is a chimera. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I made friends with guys from places I had never heard of: Kentucky, Louisiana, North and South Dakota, and other states. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Webster is near Rochester, in the western part of the state. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed in the aging Smurf-blue Ford Taurus that was his state- provided car. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Every state has its slogan urging its citizens to be prepared to die if necessary for the state: Britain’s “For King and Country,” Spain’s “Por Dios y Espana,” and so on. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We are a state, now. Independence and all that.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that what was happening had to be impossible, and it made him wonder about his mental state. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Will you look at this ?” Yossarian was dumfounded by his state of rapturous contentment. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The state of Maryland had one of the highest graduation rates in the nation. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I praised the response as “magnificent” to the press, lauding our people for “defying unprecedented intimidation by the state.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the refs gave me a hard time as well, for reasons I can only assume had to do with me being only one of two non-white female fencing coaches in the state. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She stated it as a fact, not an apology. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had a scholarship to every school in this state until he got a taste for drugs—for robbing gas stations. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes my mother would break the silence and state what we were all thinking: "How will we make it through the winter?" she asked repeatedly to no one in particular. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I knew now that the club was nearing its end, and I rose and stated my gloomy conclusions, recommending that the club dissolve. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a victory for the civil rights movement, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that states cannot use trespass laws against individuals protesting state-mandated segregation policies. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, the West African state of Maradi had a central administration with over 130 titled offices. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

So he walked and walked for miles every day, lost in his dreams, or dwelling in a meditative state. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I saw this as a defensive maneuver, for if African states decided to support the PAC, a small and weak organization could suddenly become a large and potent one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The implication, implausible at first glance, was that Indians in their virgin-soil state were more vulnerable to European diseases than virgin-soil Europeans would have been. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then we drove a state van around the perimeter to Wallpost 18, where I climbed out, my arms laden with the pistols, belts, and holsters. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alexander had never seen him in such a state. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, I grew up and live in one of the most liberal states in the nation. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The white man in charge has never been identified or arrested by the state. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They finished the regular season with a record of eight wins and a tie and number-six ranking in the state. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the days went on, she became less anxious about Mr. Marsden’s state of mind, much preferring his coolness to the rosebud smiles and little pats she had endured before her illness. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

At that time, however, it was more important to us that Egypt was the only African state with an army, navy, and air force that could in any way compare with those of South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Sillingtons first settled in Clarion County, before there was a state road parallel to the lake, they owned all the land down to the water's edge. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“In what state would you find the Grand Canyon?” he asked. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Lake took a public stand against any sort of compromise, saying that the state should close its public schools rather than desegregate. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And then I start to wonder about this state I’m in. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And these subjective states, in turn, were automatically stored away somewhere in me. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

How could they not even question their state of grace? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flew from room to room in a state of nervous excitement that made her even more talkative than usual. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Congress is not in session, Jenny, and only Congress can declare war. Still, Mr. Lincoln has asked for seventy-five thousand volunteers—from the militia of all the states.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will never be able to take the SATs if I'm left in a permanent state of dumb. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

A lot of people in the state resented the fact that television reporters were flooding in and sending back reports about how ignorant, poor, and helpless everybody was in West Virginia. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was in a state of profound shock. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn't been seen yet, still half in the farthest tent and with Lincoln’s unobservant current state. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

HUNTER’S EYE When I was alone, and could hear Angelo’s footsteps no more, I fell into that state of extreme alertness I described earlier. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“There’s four teams left in the state of Texas, and the Permian Panthers are one of those four,” Gaines softly told his players moments before it was time to take to the field. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby favored Zsuzsa, but she stated afterward that she wasn’t aware of his growing affection. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Descriptions of the red car’s occupants, provided by witnesses who had noticed them loitering in the area where Otto Ziegler’s body was discovered, had been circulated through the Midwest and Western states. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tell how they will get there, and they discuss the state of the river. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was an immense, immediate success with the public, and in consequence, the state, which raked in millions in new revenue. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of merely lying in bed in a passive state, he became disoriented and angry and refused to take medicine. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Therefore, let a prince conquer and maintain the state, and his methods will always be judged honourable and praised by all. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Or compare the crack dealer’s odds to those of a death-row inmate in Texas, which executes more prisoners than any other state. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

While in this state of weary anticipation, she noticed that she was not breathing, that her heart had stopped completely. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It did not mean so much to have a father in the state legislature and a sister who was engaged to a champion skier. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The nineteen items in the trophy case vanished, returning to their original locations, and the rest of the house and the game’s playing field returned to the same state in which I’d found them. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

While an enormous hurdle had been cleared, the suffragists knew their work was not done: Before the amendment would become law, three-fourths of the states needed to ratify it. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In more than a dozen states, student performance on standardized tests accounts for 50 percent of a teacher’s rating. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to show this to the principal right now,” she states. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Absolute zero is the state where a container of gas has been drained of all of its energy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The firing squad, drawn up opposite the door, paid him the honors of a head of state. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When C.P. stated that the reason black students didn’t have good equipment in their schools was that they didn’t care for things properly, Howard Clement drove him to a black school. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I better not get a call from the state police.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

If something can be stated of one thing, then the opposite can be stated of its opposite: if war is an evil, then it follows that peace is a good. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

It looked like a shipping crate, not a proper coffin for a head of state. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The result was that an estimated four million people died of famine in 1933 in Ukraine alone—an area about the size of all the New England and mid-Atlantic states put together. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

"No. Murderers go to a big state place." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

They might or might not have counted themselves happy, though; happiness as they conceived it then was a thing attained, a grand state, involving a fiefdom to survey from the plump comfort of their dotage. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was like an archaeologist, in a state of constant discovery. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

In January 1989, I was visited by my four comrades from Polls-moor and we discussed the memorandum I was planning to send to the state president. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wondered what evidence the state had to prove my guilt. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The memorandum reiterated most of the points I had made in our secret committee meetings, but I wanted to make sure the state president heard them directly from me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pocket of blackness in the young state. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

After a couple of days of rest and some antibiotics, what indeed had turned out to be a nasty ear infection for Malia cleared up, returning our toddler to her normal bouncy state. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“But there’s just no money. We didn’t get as much from the state for the school year because test scores went down.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, black men have been admitted to state prison on drug charges at a rate that is more than thirteen times higher than that of white men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And on a national basis, I had either directly established, or I had helped to establish, most of the one hundred or more mosques in the fifty states. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some states, Department of Motor Vehicles offices in minority neighborhoods have been shut down as well, making it even more difficult to obtain appropriate ID. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Their civilization was initially centered in what is now northern Guatemala and in Tabasco, a state in present-day Mexico. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then my sister sealed them up in a piece of paper, and put them under some dried rose-leaves in an ornamental teapot on the top of a press in the state parlour. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke softly, without the twang that in some seemed to reverberate from one end of the state to the other. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

First I had to learn a full state curtsy. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment in February 1869, and it went to the states for ratification. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“What gets me is that the state paid them a lot of money to take care of us, but they wouldn’t give my mother a cent,” I added. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In my frantic state I was quite sure that not even Bear could protect me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

That amounted to about thirty agents for each state. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The resulting Zulu state was thereby enabled to conquer a fraction of a continent for nearly a century. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Last year, when Roli won the state science fair, we had a special dinner there. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Accusations about my mental state were the cherry on top of the I-framed-you-for-setting-someone-on-fire sundae. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

But the letter—which clearly states that she wanted to quit—reminds us that even dauntless women can have their moments of doubt. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

However, the laws of thermodynamics state that it is impossible to create such a machine. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The state had many road camps which moved from place to place. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Republicans and Democrats alike had tackled the problem at state and local levels, investing in healthy living, building more sidewalks and community gardens—a proof point that there was common political ground to be explored. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

After settling into her new home, Stanton focused on abolition, touring the state and trying to convince others to join the antislavery cause. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He thought that Johnson, a Democrat sympathetic to the South, didn't do enough to protect freed Blacks and stop violence and unrest in the defeated southern states. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

As the crowd surrounded us in the bakery parking lot, everyone munching on free day-old doughnuts, I relished my relaxed state. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

That weapon was unnecessary now, as both Jefferson and Madison understood, because the superior organization of the Republicans at the state level virtually assured their victory in the looming presidential election. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Yet the result only embittered the state against us even further. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my dreamlike state I hear Mas voice calling to me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although he had been on a state championship team, he never saw any of his old teammates, nor did he ever hear from them. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t believe he’s in a conversational state,” is all he said, but the lines of his face sagged. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The natural state of things is coldness, and houses are fragile havens, holdouts in a death landscape, unforgettably comfortable, simple though they are, just because of their warmth. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They said it was at the east edge of the state,” Liam insisted. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Of all the types of princes, the new prince cannot escape the reputation for cruelty, since new states are full of dangers. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The tall man was the Texas Attorney General, the chief law enforcement officer for the state. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z