All 50 Uses
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Chandra's Wars
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- We're on Granny Thela's cattle post outside Tiro.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- I hack and I hack and—I'm out of the bush, at the side of the road leading to Tiro.†
Chpt 1.1
- They run toward Tiro.†
Chpt 1.1
- "Tiro," I scream.†
Chpt 1.1
- We have to get to Tiro.†
Chpt 1.1
- It's the one about Tiro.†
Chpt 1.1
- I see the road to Tiro.†
Chpt 1.2
- Mama and Papa had moved down from Tiro and settled us into the worker houses at the diamond mine.†
Chpt 1.2
- I'm on the road to Tiro.†
Chpt 1.2
- But it's always about Tiro.†
Chpt 1.3
- Tiro and Mama and my little brother and sister.†
Chpt 1.3
- If I recall rightly, you have people in Tiro.†
Chpt 1.3
- "In your dream, you have to get to Tiro," he says slowly.†
Chpt 1.3
- Maybe you need a visit to Tiro.†
Chpt 1.3
- I'll never go back to Tiro.†
Chpt 1.3
- "Things happened in Tiro," I whisper.†
Chpt 1.3
- Before she went to Tiro, she said to me, 'Rose, no matter what happens, I can die happy.†
Chpt 1.4
- I wish she'd never gone back to Tiro.†
Chpt 1.4
- Oh, how Mama hated Tiro.†
Chpt 1.4
- I got on the next flatbed truck to Tiro.†
Chpt 1.4
- With the help of the Tiro health clinic, I got her home.†
Chpt 1.4
- You didn't have to go to Tiro.†
Chpt 1.4
- If you don't get to Tiro, something terrible's going to happen.†
Chpt 1.5
- Let's go over that dream again: You have to get to Tiro.†
Chpt 1.5
- Not till you get yourself to Tiro.†
Chpt 1.5
- "I'm never going to Tiro again," I say.†
Chpt 1.5
- They're from Tiro, for heaven's sake, not Bonang.†
Chpt 1.5
- Are you going to Tiro?†
Chpt 1.5
- Go to Tiro.†
Chpt 1.5
- Get to Tiro.†
Chpt 1.5
- And Mfuala National Park is the most important tourist destination in the country—ten thousand square miles of dense bush, forest, and floodplain that starts forty miles north of Tiro and ends at the Mfuala mountain range that separates us from Ngala.†
Chpt 1.6
- I remember Mrs. Tafa reassuring Mama that even if Mandiki crossed the mountains, he'd have the whole of Mfuala Park to travel through, and another forty miles of cattle posts, before he'd get to our relatives in Tiro.†
Chpt 1.6
- I'm talking to Lily, my older sister who stayed in Tiro when the rest of us came south.†
Chpt 1.7
- Mrs. Tafa's called Tiro and left a message about my dream.†
Chpt 1.7
- She can't stand me, but she'll do anything to get you to Tiro.†
Chpt 1.7
- If you don't go to Tiro, how will you feel when the priest puts them in the ground?†
Chpt 1.7
- I pour out my heart, letting him know about everything: Mama, Tiro, Granny's call, and what Esther said.†
Chpt 1.7
- She'd have been on the next bus to Tiro.†
Chpt 1.7
- They've never been outside Bonang, except as babies, and the only relative from Tiro they've met is Auntie Lizbet, who came down a year ago for our baby sister's funeral; they remember her "funny shoe," meaning her club foot, and that's about it.†
Chpt 1.8
- On the mini-map, Tiro is only a quarter inch from Mfualatown.†
Chpt 1.8
- Officially, he's supposed to leave Mfualatown at dawn, pass through Tiro by breakfast, and get here by noon, returning through Tiro by supper, and to the park by dusk.†
Chpt 1.8
- Officially, he's supposed to leave Mfualatown at dawn, pass through Tiro by breakfast, and get here by noon, returning through Tiro by supper, and to the park by dusk.†
Chpt 1.8
- And since he stops everywhere to let folks hop on and off the flatbed, we're lucky if he drives through Bonang by midafternoon and gets to Tiro by midnight.†
Chpt 1.8
- Maybe my dream—Tiro, the loss of loved ones—came from the shock of finding Mama at the ruin.†
Chpt 1.8
- Going back to Tiro, seeing my relatives, I'll have the chance to face down that horror: to bury the past in the present.†
Chpt 1.8
- We can't have you showing up in Tiro empty-handed, can we?†
Chpt 1.8
- She's also programmed the number of the general dealer in Tiro, so you can check for truck delays the day you return.†
Chpt 1.8
- The truck to Tiro rounds the corner.†
Chpt 1.8
- The ride to Tiro with Mr. Palme is different.†
Chpt 2.9
- We pull into Shawshe, the last rest stop before Tiro.†
Chpt 2.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(tyro) someone new to a field or activity
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)