Ottawa

Since I had some time left, I glanced through a genealogical chart: John the Old, William Louis, Ernest Casimir I, Henry Casimir I, right up to little Margriet Franciska (born in 1943 in Ottawa).

Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

I was going to keep on saying it until two seconds after I got a letter from Ottawa or Chungking or some place saying, ’Yes, you can enlist with us.’

John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

For helping me complete it, I am grateful to three officials of exemplary professionalism: Mr. Kazuhiko Oda, lately of the Japanese Embassy in Ottawa; Mr. Hiroshi Watanabe, of Oika Shipping Company; and, especially, Mr. Tomohiro Okamoto, of the Japanese Ministry of Transport, now retired.

Yann Martel -- Life of Pi

Groups like the "Sons of Canada" are petitioning Ottawa against us and the newspapers are printing outright lies.

Joy Kogawa -- Obasan

From Sir John Macdonald, and the Minister of Justice, in Ottawa.

Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace

Back in Ottawa I instructed so many who were being posted all over the world.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy

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The auburn-haired woman now beside him at the counter spoke English But then she had said she was "waiting for word from Ottawa."

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity

He was owed favors by his government, and a quiet team of bright people from Washington and Ottawa flew up to James Bay and I was acquitted.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum

Lincoln’s success in 1860 was due in no small part to his ability to bridge the gap, a performance 5 Later, in the debate at Ottawa, Illinois, Lincoln repeated a larger passage containing this statement, and added: "this is the true complexion of all I have said in regard to the institution of slavery and the black race.

Richard Hofstadter -- Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth

The red aborigines, Leaving natural breaths, sounds of rain and winds, calls as of birds and animals in the woods, syllabled to us for names, Okonee, Koosa, Ottawa, Monongahela, Sauk, Natchez, Chattahoochee, Kaqueta, Oronoco, Wabash, Miami, Saginaw, Chippewa, Oshkosh, Walla-Walla, Leaving such to the States they melt, they depart, charging the water and the land with names.

Walt Whitman -- Leaves of Grass

It was a cablegram from Ottawa.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity

I fled from Ottawa too …. that self-same night, aboard a Canadian Air Force transport plane.

Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf

I seem to remember your saying something about ’word from Ottawa.’

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity

Combine the talents that I know you have, and you could scale the heights in Washington as you would have in Ottawa.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy

The only thing I actually learned during this period was that, by comparison with the bureaucratic hierarchy in Ottawa, the scientific hierarchy was a brotherhood of anarchy.

Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf

However, I was not deliberately trying to be evasive; I was only trying to follow the operation order which had been laid down for me in Ottawa: Para.

Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf

Since I could not adhere strictly to my original orders, I did what I thought was the next best thing, and radioed Ottawa for new instructions.

Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf

No one in Ottawa could read a word of it; from which fact it was assumed that the report must be tremendously erudite.

Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf

Despite the discouraging reaction I had had to my first radiogram to Ottawa, I had no alternative but to seek new orders once again.

Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf

In fact I couldn’t remember where I had left it, or even if I had seen it since leaving Ottawa.

Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf

All my clothes are made by a woman in Ottawa.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity

If you thought about it at all, you had to assume that I’d come to Ottawa to gain a firmer grasp of European economics so as to do my job better.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy

The upshot was that a series of urgent messages were dispatched to me through the Canadian Consul in Chile, instructing me to report to Ottawa at once.

Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf

I’ll call you in Ottawa.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity

Just as I had an ulterior motive to go to you in Ottawa, whoever is doing this to you has a deeper reason than the capture of your husband’s impersonator.’

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy

It’s me\ Ottawa.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy

Marie had got to know Catherine Staples during her days with the Treasury Board in Ottawa when she and others in her section briefed the diplomatic corps prior to their overseas assignments.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy

Or sometimes it’s as dumb as a delegate from, say, Rome-whom you know is being paid by Agnelli-coming up and asking you how serious Ottawa is about the declaration laws.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity

The three-year commitment to Ottawa was extended for all the logical reasons: whenever she thought of leaving, she was promoted a grade, given a large office and an expanded staff.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity

I was beginning to feel exceedingly frustrated before the Peruvian finally agreed to take down the substance of my message to my Chief, and forward it by commercial means to Ottawa.

Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf

The die was cast one winter’s day when I received a summons from the Dominion Wildlife Service informing me that I had been hired at the munificent salary of one hundred and twenty dollars a month, and that I "would" report to Ottawa at once.

Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf

My own colleagues in Ottawa … dear, dear friends I’d worked with for years … were afraid to talk to me!

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum

My orientation course in Ottawa had taught me that one never questioned information emanating from another department; and if a field operation based on such information went awry, it was invariably the fault of the fellow in the field.

Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf

She has associates in Ottawa; they’ll stay in touch.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity

She had to reach Ottawa and find out why Peter’s death-his murder-was being handled so secretly, so obscenely.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity

And so she had left the Meurice, taken a cab to the rue Vaugirard, and placed the call to Ottawa.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity

The last was unfair-he would never reach her-but the small, feathered hope had to be there, if only to get her on a plane to Ottawa.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity

It’s the killing at the Ottawa airport.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity

If it isn’t Bourne-or if he’s turned-it could explain the call to Ottawa, the killing at the airport.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity

The man in Ottawa revealed himself by looking for Treadstone.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity

There’s a nagging suspicion in Ottawa that a section head at the Treasury Board was killed by American Intelligence.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity

His name was in the telephone logs in Ottawa; it had to be.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity

They reached me through Ottawa.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity

Their orders came from Ottawa.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity

’Mine, too, but not Ottawa’s.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy

She was an economist in Ottawa before her marriage.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy