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  • After the war there was a minor exodus of peculiars to America.   (source)
  • She had become part of the exodus without entirely registering the enormity and strangeness of it.   (source)
  • There was an exodus to small towns and rural areas, whose inhabitants fought off the refugees as long as they could, with banned firearms or clubs and pitchforks.   (source)
  • They darted along the storefronts—most left wide open during the mass exodus—and turned into the first skinny alley between shops.   (source)
  • Packed up their camper on the afternoon of the sixth day with everything they could fit and hit the road, joining a mass exodus to somewhere else, because anywhere else seemed safer for some reason.   (source)
  • Since my father and Hershel were the most likely ones to be taken, they decided to join the exodus and head back to Narewka.   (source)
  • Her grandfather droned on and on about the plagues and the exodus from Egypt.   (source)
  • They face north, toward a new land, a neverending exodus.   (source)
  • A mass exodus of women and children, along with the Varden's elders, streamed out of Tronjheim.   (source)
  • I couldn't have these insane gods killing loads of innocent people just because I was in their midst; and if we tried to join the exodus, we'd only get stuck or crushed in a stampede.   (source)
  • But whether these would-be emigrants didn't bribe Boarderland's border officials generously enough, or Redd had anticipated an exodus among the cowards of the population and made an agreement with King Arch, no one was able to leave.   (source)
  • On the third evening, I tried to observe this exodus but six of them turned me back from the edge and gently but persistently brought me back to my hut.   (source)
  • After that, the exodus of the remaining civilian population from the city in ever smaller groups took another eight days.   (source)
  • Now, planning her exodus, Dede tried to imagine Lio's surprise at hearing Dede had joined her sisters.   (source)
  • Still, it was a time of exodus, and many families from our neighborhood packed their things and left the country for either Pakistan or Iran, with hopes of resettling somewhere in the West.   (source)
  • About noon the exodus from camp began.   (source)
  • I have only the haziest recollection of waving at my mother and sister in a rising cloud of diesel exhaust and mosquitoes as they began their slow, permanent exodus from the Congo.   (source)
  • The Irish coven continued the exodus.   (source)
  • Soon half the class was gone, and the exodus continued.   (source)
  • She had been part of the exodus that ended with the founding of Macondo, dragged along by her family in order to separate her from the man who had raped her at fourteen and had continued to love her until she was twenty-two, but who never made up his mind to make the situation public because he was a man apart.   (source)
  • What people in an exodus fear most immediately is that those in positions of authority will long since have fled, leaving us in charge of our own chaos.   (source)
  • The exodus of whites has changed California's political equation as well, turning the birthplace of the Reagan Revolution into one of the nation's most solidly Democratic states.   (source)
  • We had to await the exodus of the fifty-six blocks that preceded us.   (source)
  • And they were the first sight encountered by Brewster Place's third generation of children, who drifted into the block and precipitated the exodus of the remaining Mediterranean.   (source)
  • The white exodus was even more frantic now.   (source)
  • The exodus was soon under way, the army crossing the narrow bridge at King's Bridge and heading north along the west bank of the little Bronx River.   (source)
  • The artillery captain broke first, and after that the exodus started.   (source)
  • For another, he was not certain if Julie would even want to read it, given his sudden exodus.   (source)
  • There'll be an exodus just before dusk.   (source)
  • For the Chancellor, nothing could justify setting fire to the Eden Tree, the sapling that had been carried onto Phoenix right before the Exodus.   (source)
    exodus = an event in this novel that is named for the common noun which means "the departure of a lot of people"
  • Lourdes remembers her own exodus, the watercolor landscape she wrapped in brown paper, her wedding veil and riding crops and the sack of birdseed.   (source)
    exodus = departure by a lot of people
  • "Well, if there's going to be a mass exodus ....," he said, and got up gracefully, flinging his scarf around his neck.   (source)
  • Most of the parking lot has emptied out by this point; for as slow as the traffic moves into this place in the morning, the afternoon exodus takes no time at all.   (source)
  • The car swung a U-turn and joined the northward exodus from Georgetown, as all around the sirens wailed.   (source)
  • EXODUS (chapter title): Then the people started leaving.   (source)
  • The only explanation which I could think of for this mass exodus was that I had somehow disturbed the wolves so seriously they had felt impelled to abandon their den.   (source)
  • On the second day there was another great feast and more dancing, and on the third morning the exodus began.   (source)
  • Somewhere, long ago, he had seen a century-old newsreel of such an exodus.   (source)
  • For instance, the burning bush, the exodus from Egypt, the youths in the fiery furnace, Jonah and the whale are presented as parallels to the immaculate conception and the resurrection of Christ.   (source)
  • I had worked them into a frenzy in the days preceding our exodus from the island.   (source)
  • All that prevented a wholesale exodus was India's whispered message: "Captain Butler says not to run."   (source)
  • There wouldn't any new Moses arise to lead an exodus, because amidst the new pyramids there wouldn't any new Moses be bred.   (source)
  • ...did not, possibly could not, recount but which she seemed to exude gradually and by a process of terrific and incredulous excretion like the sweat of fear or anguish: how he had found her, dragged her out of whatever two dimensional backwater (the very name of which, town or village, she either had never known or the shock of her exodus from it had driven the name forever from her mind and memory)...   (source)
  • Last night there was no exodus, so tonight before the sundown I took away my garlic and other things.   (source)
  • The room had been fumigated with H2CO, Hans Castorp said—just as thoroughly as if it had not been a case of a fraudulent departure, but a departure of a very different sort, not an exodus, but an exitus.   (source)
  • CHAPTER SIXTEEN — THE EXODUS FROM LONDON   (source)
  • A great exodus of freighters was taking place that day.   (source)
  • There was an earlier exodus this year of people who were anybody to the watering places and Europe.   (source)
  • It became known that after this orgy Nastasia Philipovna had entirely disappeared, and that she had since been traced to Moscow; so that the exodus of the Rogojin band was found consistent with this report.   (source)
  • Nearly all the labourers on Flintcomb-Ash farm intended flight, and early in the morning there was a general exodus in the direction of the town, which lay at a distance of from ten to a dozen miles over hilly country.   (source)
  • But, what was more interesting to us, he had detailed record of the period of the change to the present state of things, and told us a great deal about it, and especially of that exodus of the people from the town to the country, and the gradual recovery by the town-bred people on one side, and the country-bred people on the other, of those arts of life which they had each lost; which loss, as he told us, had at one time gone so far that not only was it impossible to find a carpenter or a smith in a village or small country town   (source)
  • The exodus of immigrants has been bittersweet for the countries they leave as well.   (source)
  • Inside Dr. Afzal's van my father was talking to the media, giving a running commentary on the exodus from the valley.   (source)
  • EXODUS (chapter title)   (source)
  • We were convinced that if the exodus had been managed by the government many more would have died of hunger and illness.   (source)
  • The legend was that the sapling had miraculously survived the burning of North America and had been carried onto Phoenix right before the Exodus.   (source)
    exodus = an event in this novel that is named for the common noun which means "the departure of a lot of people"
  • Sinita grabbed her towel and soap dish from her night table and joined the exodus.   (source)
    exodus = departure by a lot of people
  • The great visitor exodus came as a relief to Nila.   (source)
  • Plain and simple, that was the source of our exodus: I had to keep moving.   (source)
  • Why was no one trying to give heart to people and stop this mass exodus?   (source)
  • I sat on a cold boulder and wondered if my presence had sparked some mass exodus.   (source)
  • Carry us, marry us, ferry us, bury us: those are our four ways to exodus, for now.   (source)
  • Jamie was trembling, alone in the space left by the exodus.   (source)
  • With each exodus, the odds of Cassie not being in this group increased.   (source)
  • Clutching the pinlegs, David nodded and hurried out, joining the rapid exodus of Agents and Mystics.   (source)
  • He was looking for an exodus and he was looking for Michal, but neither was coming fast.   (source)
  • But the exodus was not moving fast enough.   (source)
  • Natalie turned and joined the exodus moving north.   (source)
  • Our histories only say that his homeland was far to the south, beyond the Beors, and that his exodus was the result of war and famine.   (source)
  • It was like this mass exodus.   (source)
  • It was truly a high-class list, except that it was determined by feelings of friendship, for those favored were not only the oldest friends of Jose Arcadio Buendia's house since before they undertook the exodus and the founding of Macondo, but also their sons and grandsons, who were the constant companions of Aureliano and Arcadio since infancy, and their daughters, who were the only ones who visited the house to embroider with Rebeca and Amaranta.   (source)
  • And as the last few cars pass, a mass exodus of young men and women in dark clothing hurl themselves from the moving cars, some dropping and rolling, others stumbling a few steps before regaining their balance.   (source)
  • The white exodus was on.   (source)
  • Margaret Draper, who joined the exodus with a family of five, had continued to publish the Loyalist newspaper the Massachusetts Gazette and Boston Newsletter, after her husband's death in 1774.   (source)
  • When the crowd realised that the sheriff was departing, a general exodus began.   (source)
  • But when shells began falling in the streets for the first time, they fled to the cellars, and that night the exodus of women, children and old people from the city began.   (source)
  • This trail and crossing were unknown except to Indians before the Mormon exodus.   (source)
  • Early next morning there was an exodus from the village of the better element among the visitors.   (source)
  • He mounted the steps from the garden in haste, eager that some prey should not elude him, and forced his way through the crowd in the hall and past the two jesuits who stood watching the exodus and bowing and shaking hands with the visitors.   (source)
  • It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that put in the shade all former Exoduses of nations and crusades.†   (source)
  • Others, clearly thankful for a reason to leave, joined me in the exodus.   (source)
  • In what order of precedence, with what attendant ceremony was the exodus from the house of bondage to the wilderness of inhabitation effected?   (source)
  • An unsatisfactory equation between an exodus and return in time through reversible space and an exodus and return in space through irreversible time.   (source)
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  • That The Idaho should show The Ten Commandments so close to Easter was another example of what my grandmother called the poor "seasonal" taste of nearly everyone in the entertainment business: that we should see the Exodus of the Chosen People on the eve of our Lord's Passion and Resurrection was outrageous—"ALL THAT OLD-TESTAMENT HARSHNESS WHEN WE SHOULD BE THINKING ABOUT JESUS!" as Owen put it.   (source)
    exodus = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
  • The first night I read through Genesis, the second night I read through Exodus.   (source)
  • It was the Exodus album.   (source)
    exodus = name of an album
  • Sethe is an escaped slave, and her children were all born in slave-owning Kentucky; their escape to Ohio is like the Israelites' escape from Egypt in Exodus.   (source)
    exodus = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
  • EXODUS 13:19-22 Orleanna Price SANDERLING ISLAND, GEORGIA A S LONG AS I KEPT MOVING, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water.   (source)
  • The Moses above them had horns for the same reason thousands of Christian images of Moses had horns—a mistranslation of the book of Exodus.   (source)
  • Exodus 6:12: "But Moses said to the Lord, If the Israelites will not listen to me, why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with faltering lips?'"   (source)
  • The stories about the Exodus hadn't been formalized into scripture yet.   (source)
  • CHAPTER 37 — Exodus.   (source)
  • In Exodus Twenty, Verse Thirteen, we have one of the Ten Commandments: Thou shalt not kill.   (source)
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  • Washington remained at Cambridge where he attended Sunday services conducted by the chaplain of Knox's artillery regiment, the Reverend Abiel Leonard of Connecticut, who chose for his text Exodus 14:25: "And they took off their chariot wheels, that they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians."   (source)
  • Haiti's story, the religious say, is pulled straight from the Book of Exodus.   (source)
  • She remembered the appropriate passage from the Book of Exodus.   (source)
  • (Beginning to chant) Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, First Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, Second Kings— DRUMMOND Your Honor, this completes the testimony.   (source)
  • That was our hoping time, our little Exodus.   (source)
    exodus = departure (but also referencing the story of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt as told in the book of Exodus from the Christian and Hebrew bibles)
  • After launching it he went on at once to quote a text from Exodus relating to the plague of Egypt, and said: "The first time this scourge appears in history, it was wielded to strike down the enemies of God."   (source)
    exodus = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
  • His motion picture scripts include A Man to Remember, Kitty Foyle, A Guy Named Joe, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, The Brave One (Academy Award, 1957), Spartacus, Exodus and Lonely Are the Brave.   (source)
    exodus = film (1960)
  • Tillie had blown it with her curling iron, and, upstairs, one woman hobbled and the other just as slow from weight and uncertainty approached with candles and so recalled to me a second time it was the night of Exodus.   (source)
    exodus = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
  • I like Revelations, and the book of Daniel, and Genesis and Samuel, and a little bit of Exodus, and some parts of Kings and Chronicles, and Job and Jonah.   (source)
    exodus = book of the Bible
  • Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls you Immensity; the Psalms call you Wisdom and Truth; John calls you Light; the Books of Kings call you Lord; Exodus calls you Providence; Leviticus, Sanctity; Esdras, Justice; the creation calls you God; man calls you Father; but Solomon calls you Compassion, and that is the most beautiful of all your names.   (source)
    exodus = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
  • This is followed by ten or twelve enactments of the same kind, copied verbatim from the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy.   (source)
  • Book Five EXODUS ...And ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.   (source)
  • The Pharaoh died, says Exodus, and the children of Israel sighed by reason of their bondage.   (source)
  • "Right there in Exodus," Claudie said, moving up like a second cannon to reinforce Lena.   (source)
  • Did America shift under my feet, or did it stand still while I stomped along my road toward whatever I'm chasing, following a column of smoke through my own Exodus?   (source)
  • Exodus 1:1 Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.   (source)
  • Again, it is every where said, "The Lord spake unto Moses," as in all other occasions of Government; so also in the ordering of the Ceremonies of Religion, contained in the 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31 Chapters of Exodus, and throughout Leviticus: to Aaron seldome.   (source)
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