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Example sentences for "books and"

  • Such marks were written inside the books and on their bindings.

  • Henry VI was a lover of books and a collector.

  • Books and pictures, random conversations overheard, or contact with human beings all served, in these days, to remind her of herself.

  • There was, then, outside of the world of books and letters, another world of light and gladness!

  • I will return to Halle, to my books and my quiet room; it is lonely, but there I am at peace; there the world and the voice of Eckhof cannot enter.

  • Our boys at that time really read a great deal of good literature on the subject, including Mrs. Custer's books and those by Grinnell and Lummis.

  • The library has its own division of labor in the work of education, and that division is the training of the people to the use and appreciation of books and literature.

  • According to the chronicle of the Tangut kingdom of Si-hia, Hami was the nursery of Buddhism in Si-hia, and provided this kingdom with Buddhist books and monks.

  • He found his chief interests in books and flowers, and in giving others pleasure.

  • I believe, on the contrary, that a boy may have worse companions than books and busts, employments less healthy than the study of anatomy, and amusements more pernicious than Shakespeare and Horace.

  • I hate to be thanked," snarled he, and plunged back again into his books and papers.

  • Very well," answered our guest; "meanwhile I shall put my books and papers in order.

  • As regards national characteristics in individuals, he had a rich accumulation of notes and observations, both in his pocket-books and in his mind.

  • When I sit down by myself in my study, having carefully locked the door on all of you, alone with my books and thoughts, I am in full possession of my integral life.

  • What else draws your thoughts from blue-books and beer-bills to waste them on a vagrant like me?

  • It 's pretty much the same in men and women and in books and everything, that it is in turkeys and chickens.

  • He is a retired college officer, a man of books and observation, and himself an author.

  • Marchis, Lecons sur la navigation aerienne (Paris, 1904), containing many references to books and periodicals on pp.

  • It is noticeable both in legal text-books and in the opinions of the courts of last resort.

  • Uniformity in books and methods a necessity.

  • Alcuin: Letter to Charlemagne as to Books and Learning.

  • Seeing her so pleasant and reasonable, I made a humble petition that Jill might be set free from some of her lessons to help me pack my books and ornaments.

  • I sent for Theresa, who brought with her my books and effects.

  • That poor man really deserves it, for to buy me books and have me taught he has remained in his shirt-sleeves.

  • As he went along he collected, with promises and flattery, all the idle boys who had taken a dislike to books and school.

  • If you are this moment free from the bother of books and school, you must acknowledge that you owe it to me, to my advice, and to my persuasions.

  • This sum does not include the purchase of books and instruments, with which I supplied myself, and which cost about £200, nor the freight of the collections to England, which was paid by Government.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    are more; books and; books bound; books printed; books published; books should; books were; cold climates; comme une; consisting chiefly; funeral oration; great height; inquire after; like eyes; looking glass; other subspecies; ran away; regular military; second base; should imagine; taking possession; tenth part; this time; usually considered; vent lengths; whose body