It was not that Osmond had a taste for book-collecting: it was merely that he did not care to see his house depleted and bookcases empty.
Jimmie winked to Johnnie, and included Edwin in the fellowship of the wink, which meant that Tom was more comic than Tom thought, with his locked bookcases and his simple vanities of a collector.
He had removed not merely every scrap of a book belonging to himself, but also twobookcases which he happened to have paid for.
Let thy bookcases and shelves be thy gardens and pleasure grounds.
Still we must not push this idea of costly bookcases too far.
Moreover, thebookcases did not hold a single book, and the writing-table was bare.
Library though it still was, with its massive bookcasesfilled with rows upon rows of finely bound books, it had taken on a festal air.
These may reach the roof, if he has books to fill them, and it is only necessary to see that the back of the bookcases are slightly removed from contact with the walls.
The prison library was a long, narrow room, with bookcasesto the ceiling on one side and windows to the ceiling on the other.
Rachel could hardly tell when she stopped looking wistfully at the sectional bookcases and mission furniture of her acquaintances.
Those familiar with the Tabard Inn bookcases still to be found in outlying drug-shops know that the stock has not been "turned" for many a year.
He did, indeed, fit up the ancient drawing-room for the purposes of a library, thrusting in rows of bookcasesbeside long antique mirrors and mahogany window seats.
The construction is similar to that of the bookcases and cabinets already shown.
This method can be applied to other designs for bookcases and cabinets.
There are two bookcases in the room; one on the right as you enter the door, and the other opposite, near the window and sofa.
The wainscoting was of dark oak, and the sombre bookcases that lined the walls were of the same material.
Attached to the top of one of the bookcases was a huge pair of antlers[107] holding in their embrace a calabash from the southern seas.
There it has remained, through the years that have passed since his death, just as he left it, hanging by its curved handle from a shelf of one of the bookcases in the library.
It could have been made quite nice, and would have looked ever so much bigger with bookcases round.
Of course, she only meantbookcases on the straight-up walls.
This method is often used for the construction of light hanging bookcases and similar objects.
Pigeon holes or compartments in stationery cases, bookcases and writing bureaux are constructed in a similar manner, although the method of housing, or combined halving and housing, is to be preferred in some cases.
The deep bookcases made a ledge all round half-way up the wall, and the shallow bookcases went on above it to the ceiling.
Gray oak bookcases are built into the cream rough plaster walls which are otherwise almost hidden from view by a collection of all sorts of hunter's trophies, animal heads of all kinds.
Bookcases are built into the wall on both sides of this doorway.
There were many glazed bookcases of a garish design in ebony and gilt, and these were laden with a vast collection of works in almost every European language, reflecting perhaps the cosmopolitan character of the colonel's household.
She leant back against the bookcases under the window.
Aunt Jane had not even sent them the keys of the desk and bookcases in this suite of rooms.
The bookcases have still some of the volumes he loved; he liked the low ceiling and the big fireplace, and always wrote here--it was his library, really.
He wandered among the bookcases and soon forgot where he was, for he possessed the poet's enthusiasm for rare books.
There were bookcases ranging along the walls, window-seats, a reading-table and an ancient chimney-seat.
John pointed out the excellent supply of light literature that the bookcases contained.
There are two small bookcases filled with sombre volumes, and the busts of Molière and Shakespeare attempt to justify the appellation.
There were no chains in the library of the Escorial, erected in 1584, which showed for the first time bookcases placed against the walls.
Within recent years the use of wheeling metal bookcases has been greatly extended, and a large repository has been arranged for economical book storage underground.
Another good example of the old form may be seen, in the library of Merton College at Oxford, a long narrow room with bookcases standing between the windows at right angles to the walls.
One of the most interesting libraries is that of Trinity Hall, in which the original bookcases and benches are preserved, and many books are seen chained to the cases, as used formerly to be the practice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bookcases" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
