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  • Last night there was no exodus, so tonight before the sundown I took away my garlic and other things.   (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)
  • 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)
  • After the war there was a minor exodus of peculiars to America.†   (source)
  • They darted along the storefronts—most left wide open during the mass exodus—and turned into the first skinny alley between shops.†   (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)
  • Plain and simple, that was the source of our exodus: I had to keep moving.†   (source)
  • I sat on a cold boulder and wondered if my presence had sparked some mass exodus.†   (source)
  • About noon the exodus from camp began.†   (source)
  • She had become part of the exodus without entirely registering the enormity and strangeness of it.†   (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)
  • The great visitor exodus came as a relief to Nila.†   (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)
  • Why was no one trying to give heart to people and stop this mass exodus?†   (source)
  • Soon half the class was gone, and the exodus continued.†   (source)
  • Sinita grabbed her towel and soap dish from her night table and joined the exodus.†   (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)
  • It was like this mass exodus.†   (source)
  • The white exodus was on.†   (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)
  • The Irish coven continued the exodus.†   (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 artillery captain broke first, and after that the exodus started.†   (source)
  • There'll be an exodus just before dusk.†   (source)
  • But the exodus was not moving fast enough.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Clutching the pinlegs, David nodded and hurried out, joining the rapid exodus of Agents and Mystics.†   (source)
  • Well, if there's going to be a mass exodus ….†   (source)
  • Natalie turned and joined the exodus moving north.†   (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)
  • I had worked them into a frenzy in the days preceding our exodus from the island.†   (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)
  • We were convinced that if the exodus had been managed by the government many more would have died of hunger and illness.   (source)
  • Inside Dr. Afzal's van my father was talking to the media, giving a running commentary on the exodus from the valley.   (source)
  • Carry us, marry us, ferry us, bury us: those are our four ways to exodus, for now.†   (source)
  • For another, he was not certain if Julie would even want to read it, given his sudden exodus.†   (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)
  • He was looking for an exodus and he was looking for Michal, but neither was coming fast.†   (source)
  • The white exodus was even more frantic now.†   (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)
  • After that, the exodus of the remaining civilian population from the city in ever smaller groups took another eight days.†   (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)
  • LANDS LEFT BEHIND The exodus of immigrants has been bittersweet for the countries they leave as well.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Dozens of kids had minor cuts and bruises from the mass exodus, scores were hyperventilating or hysterical, and even more were in shock.†   (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)
  • The car swung a U-turn and joined the northward exodus from Georgetown, as all around the sirens wailed.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • …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) her mentality had been capable of coercing food and shelter from, and married her, held her very hand doubtless while she made the laborious cross on the register before she even…†   (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)
  • There was an earlier exodus this year of people who were anybody to the watering places and Europe.†   (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)
  • A great exodus of freighters was taking place that day.†   (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)
  • 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 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…†   (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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  • It was the Exodus album.†   (source)
  • 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†   (source)
  • Book Five EXODUS …And ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The stories about the Exodus hadn't been formalized into scripture yet.†   (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)
  • The first night I read through Genesis, the second night I read through Exodus.†   (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)
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  • In Exodus Twenty, Verse Thirteen, we have one of the Ten Commandments: Thou shalt not kill.†   (source)
  • EXODUS Awall of thick, smoky air engulfed Roran as he entered the Seven Sheaves, Morn's tavern.†   (source)
  • She remembered the appropriate passage from the Book of Exodus.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 37 -- Exodus.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • EXODUS Then the people started leaving.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • CHAPTER SIXTEEN THE EXODUS FROM LONDON So you understand the roaring wave of fear that swept through the greatest city in the world just as Monday was dawning—the stream of flight rising swiftly to a torrent, lashing in a foaming tumult round the railway stations, banked up into a horrible struggle about the shipping in the Thames, and hurrying by every available channel northward and eastward.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • This is followed by ten or twelve enactments of the same kind, copied verbatim from the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy.†   (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)
  • 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)
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  • 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)
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