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The story goes that Slytherin had built a hidden chamber in the castle, of which the other founders knew nothing.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998

You were part of the bridge between our founders and the current staff.†  (source) James Dashner, The Death Cure, 2011

On the walls, where one might have expected to find portraits of the firm's founders, there were portraits of Uga I, Uga II, and Uga III.†  (source) John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1994

But language founders in such seas.†  (source) Yann Martel, Life of Pi, 2001

Joe Flom and the founders of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz got multiple breaks.†  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, 2008

In it, the three men, the founders of the company, were arranged in a pyramid, each of them dressed in their best-known clothes, wearing expressions that spoke, cartoonishly, of their personalities.†  (source) Dave Eggers, The Circle, 2013

In her center, as in many of the great classical cities, the founders had erected an enduring tribute to the ancients—the Egyptian obelisk.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, 2009

I didn't realize how much Cara had already cleaved to the idea of being an Allegiant, loyal to the faction system, loyal to our founders.†  (source) Veronica Roth, Allegiant, 2013

The resistance founders warned us this time would come, told us where to go to survive, galvanized us while the rest of the world was falling apart.†  (source) Susan Ee, Angelfall, 2012

Three of the scheduled anointed speakers did not show, among them church founders Rev. Thomas McNair, my godfather, and Sister Virginia Ingram, both having pleaded illness or scheduling conflicts.†  (source) James McBride, The Color of Water, 1996

A central philosophical direction in the twentieth century is therefore ecophilosophy or ecosophy, as one of its founders the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess has called if.†  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

Zhang Shu was one of the founders of Chinese ballet, along with Chiu Ho and Chen Lueng, and was widely considered one of the most knowledgeable ballet experts in China.†  (source) Li Cunxin, Mao’s Last Dancer, 2003

She muscled her car through traffic while regaling them with stories about the crazy families of Atlanta—the old plantation owners, the founders of Coca-Cola, the sports stars, and the CNN news people.†  (source) Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena, 2012

The strategy foundered with the accident and associated publicity.

The night was really terrible; it would be a miracle if the craft did not founder.†  (source) Jules Verne, Around The World In Eighty Days

We saw your ship founder and allowed you to come to our island, though usually it is closed to mortals.  (source) Madeline Miller, Circe, 2018

The money ran out, another investment foundered, the loan came due, and Louie had to turn over his keys.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

The vegetables in lidded serving dishes, or on platters of faded Spode, were passed up and down, and such was the collective inattention or the polite desire to conceal a lack of appetite that most ended with roast potatoes and potato salad, Brussels sprouts and beetroot, and lettuce leaves foundering in gravy.†  (source) Ian McEwan, Atonement, 2001

As I hope For quiet days, fair issue, and long life, With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den, The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion Our worser genius can, shall never melt Mine honour into lust, to take away The edge of that day's celebration, When I shall think, or Phoebus' steeds are founder'd, Or Night kept chain'd below.†  (source) William Shakespeare, The Tempest, 1611

The air here was dark too, and the creepers dropped their ropes like the rigging of foundered ships.  (source) William Golding, Lord of the Flies, 1954

Her fingers bit into the flesh of my wrist; I twisted, stepping back from her, foundering in the face of the hatred, the rage rising like some dormant beast in her, looking out through her eyes.†  (source) Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire, 1976

Thought As I sit with others at a great feast, suddenly while the music is playing, To my mind, (whence it comes I know not,) spectral in mist of a wreck at sea, Of certain ships, how they sail from port with flying streamers and wafted kisses, and that is the last of them, Of the solemn and murky mystery about the fate of the President, Of the flower of the marine science of fifty generations founder'd off the Northeast coast and going down—of the steamship Arctic going down, Of the veil'd tableau-women gather'd together on deck, pale, heroic, waiting the moment that draws so close—O the moment!†  (source) Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855

...reading the names of vessels that had long ago foundered at sea or rotted at the wharves,  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850

Probably Derwent's most famous investment was the purchase of the foundering Top Mark Studios, which had not had a hit since their child star, Little Margery Morris, had died of a heroin overdose in 1934.†  (source) Stephen King, The Shining, 1977

In the months before the war began, my marriage to Richard was already foundering, though it might be said to have foundered from the beginning.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

They came out in large numbers in the aftermath of a shipwreck to stand on the beach and stare in awe at the latest foundering vessel; some brought binoculars and cameras.†  (source) David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars, 1995

The Carraways are something of a clan, and we have a tradition that we're descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather's brother, who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War, and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today.  (source) F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925

Our own founder, Jinnah, was a Shia, and Benazir Bhutto's mother was also a Shia from Iran.†  (source) Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala, 2013

He is considered the founder of the Zhou Dynasty, which overthrew the corrupt Shang Dynasty.†  (source) Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem, 2008

It blinked at me silently as I crossed the enormous cathedral-like room, which was a perfect re-creation of the office of the Tyrell Corporation's founder, Eldon Tyrell.†  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

In addition she was the daughter of Captain Norval Chase who will be long remembered by this town, and granddaughter of Benjamin Chase, founder of Chase Industries which put up the Button Factory and others.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

'Russell Pickett, the controversial CEO and founder of Pickett Engineering, wasn't home when a search warrant was served by the Indianapolis police Friday morning, and he hasn't been home since.†  (source) John Green, Turtles All the Way Down, 2017

Vince had become the famous founder of the meshnet that had saved untold lives, helping maintain order when everything else had failed.†  (source) Matthew Mather, Cyberstorm, 2013

The sword had once belonged to Godric Gryffindor, founder of Harry's House.†  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000

The geezer's wife, Eleanor Causwell, an original founder of the League, frowns.†  (source) Kathryn Stockett, The Help, 2009

I was not afraid the Aurora would founder, but the pirate ship.†  (source) Kenneth Oppel, Airborn, 2004

James Oglethorpe, the founder of Georgia, had been responsible for them, she said.†  (source) John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1994

He's the founder of the Institute, the reason we're all here.†  (source) Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society, 2007

We'd previously honored Marian Wright Edelman, the heroic civil rights lawyer and founder of the Children's Defense Fund.†  (source) Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy, 2014