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Example sentences for "bookmaking"

Lexicographically close words:
bookless; booklet; booklets; bookmaker; bookmakers; bookman; bookmark; bookmen; bookplate; bookrack
  1. Now Erasmus was a successful author, and he was also the best authority on paper, inks, bindings, and general bookmaking in Italy, Holland or Germany.

  2. All of the great bookmaking centers languished when they began to scamp.

  3. And think of the grief of the bookmaking host At the sound of the summons to go to the post-- For down to the start with her thorough-bred air As fit as a fiddle pranced Mulligan's mare!

  4. This work was to outstrip anything in bookmaking the world had ever seen, dealing with similar subjects.

  5. It took a year to get the work out, but it yet remains one of the finest things ever attempted in a bookmaking way on the subject of botany.

  6. Before going home he thought he would take a little look in on Leyden, at that time the bookmaking and literary center of the world.

  7. Only in Paris could the work of bookmaking be done that would fill Humboldt's ideals.

  8. At the present writing he is engaged in the poolroom and bookmaking line at Chicago and making a living, to say the least of it.

  9. In the first place, we should be all agreed that bookmaking is not literature.

  10. The business of bookmaking I have no doubt may thrive and will be continued upon a constantly extending scale from year to year.

  11. But the company was none the less pleased with it, and willingly declared that bookmaking was only a game for mugs.

  12. I put aside a thousand for working expenses, for I intended to give up backing horses and go in for bookmaking instead.

  13. The business of bookmaking was practised by too many people, and some were incompetent.

  14. In the sixth century the business of bookmaking had fallen into hopeless decay.

  15. Hence there is no dearth of wonderful examples of the beautiful bookmaking of this century in all the great libraries of the world.

  16. In general it may be said that the missals and office books, and the prayer books made for royal personages and the nobility at this time, are yet counted among the best examples of bookmaking the world has ever seen.

  17. Considerable dissension arose over the bookmaking facilities, when it was learned that the radioactive surface of the planet made it unnecessary to send scratches and results by wire.

  18. An investment with us is safer and brings better returns than bookmaking or any other form of speculation.

  19. Let the grand jury indict officials of the Western Union Telegraph Company for complicity in bookmaking and send them to jail.

  20. The history of bookmaking is studied from the period of the manuscript through the 15th century, and some work with American and other books has been done each year.

  21. There is hardly any practice so vicious in bookmaking as having the title-page pasted in.

  22. Papyrus paper among Greeks and Romans--Methods of bookmaking and publishing in Greece and Rome.

  23. In the first place we should be all agreed that bookmaking is not literature.

  24. The province of these worthy accessories in the world of fine bookmaking has not been free from invasion by sharks and charlatans, some of whom have succeeded for a time under the guise of honest and reciprocal motives.

  25. In this game of illusion the sound principles of bookmaking are forsaken.

  26. While the librarian's ideals of bookmaking are not the only ones, they are in harmony with the best, and there cannot be progress in bookmaking without approaching his ideals.

  27. The tradition of excellence in English bookmaking still held sway over the public, and, as their books sold, most producers saw no reason to disturb themselves.

  28. Surely, if bookmaking is one of the minor arts, then the private knowledge and enjoyment of its products is an element in the culture of the community.

  29. Leavitt, representing Alameda, and Weed, representing Shasta and Siskiyou, voted with the five San Francisco Senators against suppressing bookmaking and pool-selling.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bookmaking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.