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  • Speaking simply and clearly, without resorting to the customary rhetorical devices, his full, rich voice touched the hearts of every listener with its simple plea for amity and justice between North and South.†   (source)
  • She moved into Amity Harbor Christmastime '44.†   (source)
  • The power has gone out and you have passed difficult nights at the Amity Harbor Hotel.†   (source)
  • "There's a fisherman who claims to have seen a German submarine just off Amity Harbor.†   (source)
  • His wife typed for Klaus Hartmann, who sold real estate in Amity Harbor.†   (source)
  • "In December of '44 you moved to Amity Harbor?"†   (source)
  • On winter evenings it roared in sheets against the pavements and made Amity Harbor invisible.†   (source)
  • I say to him go talk with Etta Heine, she is moved into Amity Harbor.†   (source)
  • Your seven acres is going to be swallowed up by the dime store in Amity Harbor.†   (source)
  • The year you sent the Miyamotos their equity and came to live in Amity Harbor?†   (source)
  • She remembered how Carl'd come home one afternoon with a posting he'd picked up in Amity Harbor.†   (source)
  • The jurors ate dinner at the Amity Harbor Hotel and talked of other matters.†   (source)
  • "So you moved to Amity Harbor," said Alvin Hooks.†   (source)
  • An old city that was transformed into empty land for the Amity to farm.†   (source)
  • Did you say there were Amity in an army?†   (source)
  • You got us out of the Amity compound with that shot.†   (source)
  • We can even exchange bracelets if you want, like the Amity girls used to.†   (source)
  • She wears a coat in Amity red, dusted with snowflakes.†   (source)
  • Everywhere plants and trees are suspended in water, the same way they were in the Amity greenhouses.†   (source)
  • "Amity keeps a number of secrets," Johanna says, and she sounds proud.†   (source)
  • The only flowers I've ever seen are wildflowers, or apple blossoms in the Amity orchards.†   (source)
  • There are people from every faction in it, even Amity and Erudite.†   (source)
  • I'll need some Amity peace serum, do you have access to that?"†   (source)
  • The truck is red and rusted, an Amity vehicle.†   (source)
  • The sheriff asked that as an act of goodwill these farmers turn in such dangerous items to his office in Amity Harbor.†   (source)
  • You heard about this death, an afternoon passed, and then you went down to the Amity Harbor docks with the intent of putting out to sea.†   (source)
  • The War Relocation Authority moved into musty offices at the old W. W. Beason Cannery dock, just outside Amity Harbor.†   (source)
  • At the Strawberry Festival in 1941 he'd watched while the mayor of Amity Harbor had crowned Hatsue Strawberry Prin— " cess.†   (source)
  • He lived in an apartment in Amity Harbor and kept to himself insofar as that was possible for a newspaperman on a small island.†   (source)
  • At ten o'clock Mr. Oshiro called again; armed men had posted themselves around Amity Harbor out of fear of a Japanese attack.†   (source)
  • The men from Amity Harbor couldn't argue with this or with the fixed upward tilt of his chin and jaw.†   (source)
  • Carl had named his boat after his wife, and, in '48, built a big frame house just west of Amity Harbor, including an apartment for his mother, Etta.†   (source)
  • His mother shook her head and claimed she was content to stick it out at South Beach; they could go to Amity Harbor in the morning if they wanted.†   (source)
  • In January fifteen islanders canceled their subscriptions, including the Walker Colemans of Skiff Point and the Herbert Langlies of Amity Harbor.†   (source)
  • To your apartment door in Amity Harbor?†   (source)
  • Other boats were pulling out, he saw, motoring past the buoys in Amity Harbor on their way to the salmon grounds.†   (source)
  • It projected that power would be restored to Amity Harbor by eight o'clock the following morning and requested patience on the part of citizens.†   (source)
  • Ray Ichikawa scored fifteen points for the Amity Harbor High School basketball team in its victory over Anacortes.†   (source)
  • He could see, nevertheless, that there were no lights anywhere in Amity Harbor; the power was out entirely.†   (source)
  • Amity Harbor, the island's only town, provided deep moorage for a fleet of purse seiners and one-man gill-netting boats.†   (source)
  • At the sheriffs office in Amity Harbor they found Art Moran hunched down at his desk beside an electric heater.†   (source)
  • From this vantage point he jealously inspected the yachts of the Seattlites who cruised past South Beach on their way to anchorages in Amity Harbor.†   (source)
  • 15 An army truck took Fujiko and her five daughters to the Amity Harbor ferry dock at seven o'clock on Monday morning, where a soldier gave them tags for their suitcases and coats.†   (source)
  • At three o'clock five school buses left Amity Harbor with their windshield wipers batting ice from the windshields and their headlights casting into the snowfall.†   (source)
  • Got himself all involved buying up the new fairgrounds, getting folks in Amity Harbor to donate lumber and whatnot for the dance pavilion at West Port Jensen.†   (source)
  • William Blair, he told his readers—son of Zachary and Edith Blair of Amity Harbor—graduated in the U.S. Naval Academy's first emergency class and shipped out for the European theater.†   (source)
  • Inside Amity Harbor's courthouse, opposite the courtroom's four tall windows, a table had been set up to accommodate the influx of newspapermen to the island.†   (source)
  • By Pearl Harbor Day there were eight hundred and forty-three people of Japanese descent living there, including twelve seniors at Amity Harbor High School who did not graduate that spring.†   (source)
  • I hope you will pass a relatively pleasant night at the Amity Harbor Hotel, but if you do not, then be brave about it and return tomorrow with your thoughts centered on the case at hand.†   (source)
  • Ed Soames had again turned the heat up; he did so because the foreman of the jury had reported that certain of the jurors had passed a cold night in the Amity Harbor Hotel.†   (source)
  • Behind the Amity Harbor Elementary School, a girl of seven bending over to pack a snowball was rammed from behind by a boy skidding down a hill on a piece of cardboard box.†   (source)
  • Younger fishermen like Dale Middleton were apt to spend considerable time each day—at the San Piedro Cafe or the Amity Harbor Restaurant—rooting for information.†   (source)
  • Ishmael stopped in at the Amity Harbor Restaurant and asked Elena Bridges to put two cheese sandwiches in a paper sack for him; he didn't have time to stay and eat.†   (source)
  • She'd turned the car around and driven over Mill Run into Amity Harbor, where she used the public telephone booth beside Petersen's to call her husband and tell him.†   (source)
  • Art Moran was standing with one foot up on a piling, talking to half a dozen fishermen, when Ishmael Chambers arrived that afternoon on the Amity Harbor docks.†   (source)
  • Another article reported that at the Japanese Community Center hall in Amity Harbor a reception had been held for Robert Sakamura, who'd been inducted into the army.†   (source)
  • Surrounded by a crescent of basketed strawberries, she received her crown with a bowed head from Amity Harbor's mayor, who wore a red sash from shoulder to waist and carried a decorated scepter.†   (source)
  • Early on the morning of March 29, 1942, fifteen transports of the U.S. War Relocation Authority took all of San Piedro's Japanese Americans to the ferry terminal in Amity Harbor.†   (source)
  • Gradually Anacortes, a town on the mainland, became home to the big boats with crews of four or more, the Amity Harbor fleet home to one-man gill-netters.†   (source)
  • On Saturday evening, March 28, the Amity Harbor High School senior ball—its theme this year was "Daffodil Daze"— went forward in the high school auditorium.†   (source)
  • He stood with his chest against her back and his hands in the rigging until the lights of Amity Harbor came up to the south, and then he went in and repositioned the Islander in order to take the channel head on.†   (source)
  • He wore a shoulder strap T-shirt, and this, coupled with the sharp-honed weapon at his belt, put Ishmael in mind of the pirates he'd read about in illustrated books his father had brought him from the Amity Harbor Public Library.†   (source)
  • Mr. Oshiro called again and told Hatsue's father that in Amity Harbor a fisherman named Otto Willets had put up a ladder in front of Shigeru Ichiyama's movie theater and unscrewed the lightbulbs in the marquee.†   (source)
  • In his overcoat and snow-flecked hat he picked up the telephone to call his mother; she lived alone five miles from town, and he wanted to see how she was faring in the storm and find out if the south end was in as bad a state as Amity Harbor just now.†   (source)
  • She sipped her tea, then changed the subject: the families up and down South Beach, she said, were thought of by folks in Amity Harbor as self-styled aristocrats and malcontents, seclusion seekers and eccentrics—Ishmael's family included.†   (source)
  • The gun's report echoed from the hills of Amity Harbor, and then Kabuo remembered what he had missed this year: the birch and alder going golden and red, the rust autumn hue of the vine maples, the russet colors of early October, the cider press, pumpkins, and baskets of young zucchini squash.†   (source)
  • Ishmael took Lundgren Road out of Amity Harbor because it made a steady ascent, without curves or coils, on a grade more reasonable than Mill Run's or Piersall's, and because it had not been listed on the power company door as blocked by fallen trees.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Thomas McKibben, in charge of medical supplies, requested that any islander with a station wagon available for use as an emergency ambulance should contact her at Amity Harbor 172-R; she was also registering emergency nurses and those with emergency first-aid training.†   (source)
  • He came into the kitchen, wrapped himself around his wife, and explained that unless the fishing was excellent he was coming home early the next morning, would be home, he hoped, by four a.m. Then he left for the Amity Harbor docks, and she never saw him again.†   (source)
  • He did not know how to conduct himself and the recklessness he felt about everything was as foreign to him as the sea foam breaking over the snowy boats and over the pilings of the Amity Harbor docks, now swamped and under water.†   (source)
  • When he saw her, as he sometimes did, in the aisles of Petersen's Grocery or on the street in Amity Harbor, he turned away from seeing her with just a little less hurry than she turned away from seeing him; they avoided one another rigorously.†   (source)
  • Normally they foraged around the salmon cannery, but now they sat on drag floats or buoy bags without stirring a feather, as if made of clay, or rode the tide in Amity Harbor, occasionally flaring overhead, riding the winds with their heads swiveling.†   (source)
  • 13 Hatsue Imada was standing in the foyer of the Amity Harbor Buddhist Chapel, buttoning her coat after services, when Georgia Yamashita's mother told the people gathered there the news about Pearl Harbor.†   (source)
  • It had seemed to the others that he would not budge, and they had prepared themselves, by five forty-five, for another long night at the Amity Harbor Hotel and for the necessity of taking the matter up with Alexander Van Ness at eight o'clock the next morning.†   (source)
  • By noon three inches had settled on the town, a snow so ethereal it could hardly be said to have settled at all; instead it swirled like some icy fog, like the breath of ghosts, up and down Amity Harbor's streets—powdery dust devils, frosted puffs of ivory cloud, spiraling tendrils of white smoke.†   (source)
  • He'd been calling the Reverend Gordon Groves of the Amity Harbor Lutheran Congregation to ask about the sermon topic for Sunday in order that he might paraphrase the reverend's answer in his "At Our Island Churches" column, a weekly feature in the San Piedro Review that ran beside the Ana-cortes ferry schedule.†   (source)
  • Main Street presented to the populace Petersen's Grocery, a post office, Fisk's Hardware Center, Larsen's Pharmacy, a dime-store-with-fountain owned by a woman in Seattle, a Puget Power office, a chandlery, Lottie Opsvig's apparel shop, Klaus Hartmann's real estate agency, the San Piedro Cafe, the Amity Harbor Restaurant, and a battered, run-down filling station owned and operated by the Torgerson brothers.†   (source)
  • They came to the house dressed in overcoats and checkered scarves, reeking of pomade and shaving soap, and sat down to snifters of blackberry cordial, after which Arthur declined to run for office, telling the gentlemen from Amity Harbor that he harbored no illusions, that he preferred to turn sentences and prune his mulberry hedges.†   (source)
  • They were loaded onto a ship while their white neighbors looked on, people who had risen early to stand in the cold and watch this exorcising of the Japanese from their midst—friends, some of them, but the merely curious, mainly, and fishermen who stood on the decks of their boats out in Amity Harbor.†   (source)
  • There were high seas between San Piedro and the mainland that were preventing the Anacortes ferry from running, so it was not possible to house the members of the jury anywhere but where they had been housed the previous evening—the cold, dark rooms of the Amity Harbor Hotel, where they would have to make the best of things, since circumstances were now beyond Judge Fielding's control and other accommodations were not available.†   (source)
  • Only the week before, the deceased, in rubber boots and a clean T-shirt—perhaps the T-shirt just now cut to pieces with a pair of angled surgical scissors—had carried his eldest, a boy of six, into Horace's office in Amity Harbor and pointed out a cut on the boy's foot, sliced open against the metal strut of an overturned wheelbarrow.†   (source)
  • I was given a yellow Amity shirt and black Candor pants earlier as a result of that particular edict.†   (source)
  • Everyone agrees that it is the result "of a spirit of amity, and the mutual deference and concession that our special political situation made indispensable."†   (source)
  • He reminded himself that he would sell his d'Anconia Copper stock, which had never rallied fully after its crash of last year, and he would purchase shares of the Inter-neighborly Amity and Development Corporation, as agreed with his friends, which would bring him a fortune.†   (source)
  • It had been followed by a small cocktail party in a private room of the bar built like a cellar on the roof of a skyscraper, an informal party given by him, James Taggart, for the directors of a recently formed company, The Interneighborly Amity and Development Corporation, of which Orren Boyle was president and a slender, graceful, overactive man from Chile was treasurer, a man whose name was Senor Mario Martinez, but whom Taggart was tempted, by some resemblance of spirit, to call…†   (source)
  • It says "that the legislative, executive, and judiciary powers ought to be kept as separate from, and independent of, each other as the nature of a free government will admit; or as is consistent with that chain of connection that binds the whole fabric of the constitution in one indissoluble bond of unity and amity," The New Hampshire constitution mixes the three departments in several ways.†   (source)
  • She is so careful in her movements, so precise—it reminds me of the Amity musicians plucking at banjo strings.†   (source)
  • "The Dauntless serum gives hallucinated realities, Candor's gives the truth, Amity's gives peace, Erudite's gives death—"†   (source)
  • Now, with the factions disbanded, it seems she has become something other than the mouthpiece of Amity or even the leader of the Allegiant.†   (source)
  • Instead, you will be sent outside the fence, beyond the Amity compound, and you will not be allowed to return.†   (source)
  • The Amity are charged with administering the Abnegation serum to anyone who goes out past the limit, just enough to make them forget the experience.†   (source)
  • If she had really craved safety from Erudite's growing corruption, she could have gone to Amity or Candor.†   (source)
  • Johanna suggests we take Amity trucks from the end of the railroad tracks out of the city, and she volunteers to supply them to us.†   (source)
  • Music fills the air, and the only sounds I recognize—from my limited experience with the Amity—are plucked guitar strings and drums.†   (source)
  • The crops that were once isolated to the areas around Amity headquarters have spread, and continue to spread through all the grassy spaces around the city.†   (source)
  • The first is Johanna Reyes, former spokesperson of Amity, identifiable by the scar that crosses her face and the hint of yellow peeking out from under her black jacket.†   (source)
  • I remember the thought I had, after Johanna told me about the Amity administering the memory serum to Dauntless patrols—that when you take a person's memories, you change who they are.†   (source)
  • Stephanie and Rose volunteer to monitor Evelyn's movements in the hours before the escape, and to report any unusual behavior to the Amity compound by two-way radio.†   (source)
  • Every part of the city shows up on the screen, the bridge near the Merciless Mart and the Pire and the main thoroughfare of the Abnegation sector, the Hub and the Ferris wheel and the Amity fields, now worked by all the factions.†   (source)
  • And he's right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but vain; the Amity, peaceful but passive; the Candor, honest but inconsiderate; the Abnegation, selfless but stifling.†   (source)
  • No fence or wall marks the divide between the Amity compound and the outer world, but I remember monitoring the Dauntless patrols from the control room, making sure they didn't go farther than the limit, which is marked by a series of signs with Xs on them.†   (source)
  • Sitting on a bed near the door are three girls in red shirts—Amity girls, I would guess—and on the left side of the room, an older woman lies on one of the beds, her spectacles dangling from one ear—possibly one of the Erudite.†   (source)
  • On his arrival he found amity instead of enmity awaiting him.†   (source)
  • With all the rest of the County, Gerald was on terms of amity and some intimacy.†   (source)
  • Now that the King and you are in amity, Clergy and laity may return to gaiety, Mirth and —sportfulness need not walk warily, Thomas.†   (source)
  • It drew maps with avenues a hundred yards wide and thought seriously of preserving the half-ruined Museum of Science and Industry more or less as it was, as a monument to the disaster, and naming it the Institute of International Amity.†   (source)
  • If not amity, at least neutrality must obtain.†   (source)
  • Then the amity of the dinner was destroyed by the nagging of the Swansons.†   (source)
  • They parted on a high plane of amity and Christian helpfulness.†   (source)
  • I also desire to live in amity with my professional brethren.†   (source)
  • I yet lingered half-an-hour longer, hoping to see some sign of amity: but she gave none.†   (source)
  • With you, at least, I would part in amity.†   (source)
  • Speak to him, therefore; but let thy words be strong in amity.†   (source)
  • This promise was graciously accorded, and they separated upon great terms of amity.†   (source)
  • Utterson was amazed; the dark influence of Hyde had been withdrawn, the doctor had returned to his old tasks and amities; a week ago, the prospect had smiled with every promise of a cheerful and an honoured age; and now in a moment, friendship, and peace of mind, and the whole tenor of his life were wrecked.†   (source)
  • Loud protestations of amity were exchanged by prominent citizens, and there went with them a genuine desire for a good understanding.†   (source)
  • Mayor, if I go to Congress you must appoint Arrowsmith in my place; he knows nothing about politics but he's incorruptible," then Pugh gave his promise, and amity abode in that land…… Nobody said anything at all about Mr. F. X. Jordan.†   (source)
  • Gentlemen, it strikes me that each year at this annual occasion when friend and foe get together and lay down the battle-ax and let the waves of good-fellowship waft them up the flowery slopes of amity, it behooves us, standing together eye to eye and shoulder to shoulder as fellow-citizens of the best city in the world, to consider where we are both as regards ourselves and the common weal.†   (source)
  • I much prefer the company of plow-boys and tin-peddlers, to the silken and perfumed amity which only celebrates its days of encounter by a frivolous display, by rides in a curricle,[302] and dinners at the best taverns.†   (source)
  • The good-natured fellow had found Mrs. Sedley only too willing to receive him, and greatly agitated by the arrival of the piano, which, as she conjectured, MUST have come from George, and was a signal of amity on his part.†   (source)
  • Here the savage advanced with confidence, his hand extended, his face smiling, and his whole bearing denoting amity and respect.†   (source)
  • He had found the couple hobnobbing together in all amity; the old gentleman's rigor was purely theoretic.†   (source)
  • "Amity!" repeated Marmaduke; "there was no malice in the act that injured thee, young man; there should be none in the feelings which it may engender."†   (source)
  • "I come in amity," the stranger said, like one too much accustomed to the sight of arms to be startled at the ludicrously belligerent attitude which Dr. Battius had seen fit to assume.†   (source)
  • But perceiving that his first advances toward amity were not met, he relapsed into his least favorable disposition toward Philip, and resolved never to appeal to him either about drawing or exercise again.†   (source)
  • Mabel waited some time to catch a signal of leave-taking or amity after her friend had landed, but none was given.†   (source)
  • Every line that could possibly be interpreted into a secret inclination for war, was carefully avoided; while, on the other hand, he studied those conceits that might be construed into amity.†   (source)
  • It did assist; for though he began with grave looks and short questions, he was soon led on to talk of them all in the usual way, and to take the child out of her arms with all the unceremoniousness of perfect amity.†   (source)
  • Ambassadors are the representatives of nations in a state of amity with the Union, and whatever concerns these personages concerns in some degree the whole Union.†   (source)
  • I had left this woman in bitterness and hate, and I came back to her now with no other emotion than a sort of ruth for her great sufferings, and a strong yearning to forget and forgive all injuries — to be reconciled and clasp hands in amity.†   (source)
  • When in full view of the Delawares he stopped, and made a gesture of amity, by throwing his arm upward toward heaven, and then letting it fall impressively on his breast.†   (source)
  • It spoke such perfect amity.†   (source)
  • When he began to urge his raft away from the platform his countenance lowered and his eye glowed, even while he affected a smile of amity and a gesture of courtesy at parting.†   (source)
  • The motion of the branch was such as she believed indicated amity; and, after a moment's hesitation, she broke off a twig, fastened it to a stick and, thrusting it through an opening, waved it in return, imitating as closely as possible the manner of the other.†   (source)
  • She was about to quit her post in the bushes and hasten to her uncle, in order to acquaint him of her suspicions, when she saw the branch of an alder thrust beyond the fringe of bushes on the other island, and waved towards her significantly, and as she fancied in token of amity.†   (source)
  • "Venerable venator," resumed the naturalist, clearing his throat, like one who was much in earnest, "let us discuss understandingly and in amity.†   (source)
  • There was but one safe and familiar trail to the Mohawk, and on that, at the proper hour, he doubted not that they should meet in amity, if not in renewed intercourse.†   (source)
  • The young hunter gazed at the fair speaker until his earnest look brought the blood to her temples; when, recollecting himself, he bent his head, dropping his eyes to the carpet, and replied: "In the morning, then, will I return, and see Judge Temple; and I will accept his offer of the sleigh in token of amity."†   (source)
  • He knows us as friends, and we fear no evil at his hands, and least of all to myself; for a generous mind is apt to render rivalry in a certain interest a sure ground of respect and amity, since admiration of the same woman proves a community of feeling and tastes.†   (source)
  • During the delivery of this pertinent opinion, Ishmael was content to be silent, though the look, with which he regarded the speaker, manifested any other feeling than that of amity.†   (source)
  • Ishmael seemed to press this proof with a singular mixture of sorrow and pride: sorrow, at the loss of a son, whom in their moments of amity he highly valued; and pride, at the courage and power he had manifested to his last and weakest breath.†   (source)
  • When this equivocal species of amity was established between the warrior of the prairies and the experienced old trapper, the latter proceeded to give his directions to Paul, concerning the arrangements of the contemplated halt.†   (source)
  • "I admonish and forewarn ye all," continued the startled Doctor, "that I am a peaceful citizen of the before named Confederacy, or to speak with greater accuracy, Union, a supporter of the Social Compact, and a lover of good order and amity;" then, perceiving that the danger was, at least, temporarily removed, he once more raised his voice to the hostile pitch,—"I charge ye all, therefore, to submit to the laws."†   (source)
  • Let us then consider how this affair may end; shall we again bring on the misery and din of war, or make a pact of amity between them?†   (source)
  • The whole being explained, many obliging things were said by the Miss Thorpes of their wish of being better acquainted with her; of being considered as already friends, through the friendship of their brothers, etc., which Catherine heard with pleasure, and answered with all the pretty expressions she could command; and, as the first proof of amity, she was soon invited to accept an arm of the eldest Miss Thorpe, and take a turn with her about the room.†   (source)
  • But when a prince declares himself gallantly in favour of one side, if the party with whom he allies himself conquers, although the victor may be powerful and may have him at his mercy, yet he is indebted to him, and there is established a bond of amity; and men are never so shameless as to become a monument of ingratitude by oppressing you.†   (source)
  • The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without anything more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of peace and amity towards other nations.†   (source)
  • They gave each other beautiful tokens of amity: Grandfather's offering was a lion-guard sewn in purple, Bellerophontes gave a cup of gold two-handled; it is in my house; I left it there, coming away to Troy.†   (source)
  • The kindness of Amity will comfort us for a while, though we can't stay there forever.   (source)
    amity = the group of people to whom it is most important to be friendly and live in peace
  • The Amity aren't supposed to argue.   (source)
    amity = people to whom it is most important to be friendly and live in peace
  • There may as well be amity and life
    'Tween snow and fire as treason and my love.   (source)
    amity = friendly relations
  • The first girl to choose decides on Amity, the same faction from which she came.†   (source)
  • They wear Amity clothes, like me, but also like me, it's obvious what faction they are really in.†   (source)
  • All the initiates except the Amity boy made it onto the roof, with varying levels of success.†   (source)
  • Those of us who aren't dressed like the Amity should go to the dormitories, then," Marcus says.†   (source)
  • The back of the truck is open, and a few other Amity sit among the stacks of crates.†   (source)
  • We hang on each other the way Amity girls do, glancing at the Dauntless and then giggling again.†   (source)
  • I always forget how considerate the Amity are until I see it for myself.†   (source)
  • When the last girl makes her choice—Amity—it's time to leave.†   (source)
  • Well, I'm not doing it," says an Amity boy behind me.†   (source)
  • I am in a bed in Amity headquarters, and the smell of sawdust is in the air.†   (source)
  • I stand between Caleb and Danielle Pohler, an Amity girl with rosy cheeks and a yellow dress.†   (source)
  • Marcus nods to the guard who let us through and drives over the worn path to Amity headquarters.†   (source)
  • You may be able to go on patrols beyond Amity's farms, but—"†   (source)
  • I've never seen the Amity armed before," the faction-less woman with the knife says.†   (source)
  • One of the Amity in the back of the truck stands.†   (source)
  • I would be shocked by the lack of security if we were not at Amity headquarters.†   (source)
  • Then we'll have to decide who goes and who continues on to Amity," he says.†   (source)
  • We stand in the Amity orchards, where the apples are ripe and dangle just inches above our heads.†   (source)
  • Only in Amity do people hug each other in greeting.†   (source)
  • So I take it Amity wasn't one of the factions you had an aptitude for," he says, grinning.†   (source)
  • These days, the only artists are in Amity.†   (source)
  • "The Amity will have trouble enforcing that policy," says Marcus.†   (source)
  • Of those, I am the only Abnegation transfer, and there are no Amity transfers.†   (source)
  • Pinpricks of light are the first sign that we are nearing Amity headquarters.†   (source)
  • The elevator is crowded, so my father volunteers to give a cluster of Amity our place.†   (source)
  • That's why there's a big group of them here, and a small group at Amity headquarters.†   (source)
  • I sleep in a long T-shirt one of the Amity lent me.†   (source)
  • Those who blamed aggression formed Amity.†   (source)
  • Clusters of Amity sit at the other tables, their clothes bright against their tanned skin.†   (source)
  • That didn't happen, which is why Amity is out.†   (source)
  • Every Amity in the room turns to the person next to him or her and starts talking.†   (source)
  • He has olive skin and wears a brown shirt—he is the only transfer from Amity.†   (source)
  • Our best option is to go to the Amity compound in the hope that they'll take us in.†   (source)
  • Her brother, Robert, chose Amity when I chose Dauntless, so he is somewhere in this compound.†   (source)
  • "Your hair is pretty short for an Amity," she says…. he did not cut his hair like the Abnegation.†   (source)
  • Never thought my fate would be in the hands of a bunch of Amity.†   (source)
  • The Amity wouldn't do something like that," I say.†   (source)
  • She carries the bowl toward the middle of the room, where the Amity meetings are held.†   (source)
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