Essential Word Roots: Make a Run for It: Cur, Curs

After five minutes, however, all four of us concurred: Hutchison’s decision to leave Beck and Yasuko where they lay was the proper course of action. Into Thin Air

“My dear sir,” replied Mr. Collins, “I am particularly obliged to you for this friendly caution, and you may depend upon my not taking so material a step without her ladyship’s concurrence.” Pride and Prejudice

With a remote control in his hand, he watched all three concurrent news programs every night, raising the volume on any war coverage. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam

They tiptoed down a long corridor that curved to the left and then to the right. Chasing Vermeer

He set up the deception so that British scouts stopped his horseback couriers and grabbed the fake documents, thinking they were real. George Washington, Spymaster

Annabeth pulled out a gold coin that I recognized as a drachma, the currency of Mount Olympus. The Sea of Monsters

Shin did not know it, but to pass safely through the fence he needed a device that could shunt the flow of current from the fence to the ground. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

Courses in nutrition and health had been added to her curriculum, and more time was spent on exercise in the outdoor air. Son

To pass the time, he planned to hunt for jobs online, update his curriculum vitae and freshen up his social profile. Wall Street Journal

While she was watching, I signed my name in cursive. Life Is So Good

Lanning did not trouble to answer, nor to do more than bestow a single cursory glance at the top sheet upon Bogert’s desk. I, Robot

For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. The Secret History

It became hard for me to get through a school day without someone after me to join this or head up that—the debating society, the Junior High basketball team, or some other extracurricular activity. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

I calculated finally that my savings would be able to meet all the costs I might incur, and in addition, might stretch to the purchase of a new costume. The Remains of the Day

Next morning, however, all was the same, no marvel had occurred, no plan or even hope had come. The Golden Goblet

Rare events such as batting streaks that are the result of chance are not individually predictable, yet the pattern of their occurrence is probabilistically describable. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences

My neck was starting to itch, the telltale precursor to an outbreak of hives. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

Though the wound in her head had healed, she was subject to periods of troubled sleep, she had strange dreams which recurred night after night. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad

I couldn't decide if it were from watching some similar scene in the movies, from books I'd read, or from some recurrent but deeply buried dream. Invisible Man

His repetitions make his music feel like it’s moving inward, in recursive patterns that feel intricate and endless, like fractals. Washington Post