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Example sentences for "books"

Lexicographically close words:
bookman; bookmark; bookmen; bookplate; bookrack; bookseller; booksellers; bookselling; bookshelf; bookshelves
  1. They are also the most Readable and Entertaining Books published.

  2. We publish a large variety of Military Novels, with Illustrated Military covers, in colors, besides thousands of others, all of which are the best selling and most popular books in the world.

  3. Address all orders for any books you may want at all, no matter by whom published, or how small or how large your order may be, to the Cheapest Publishing and Bookselling House in the world, which is at T.

  4. COOK BOOKS Petersons' New Cook Book; or Useful Receipts for the Housewife and the uninitiated.

  5. The Books will also be found to be the Best and Latest Publications by the most Popular and Celebrated Writers in the World.

  6. Sometimes initials tell a story that trunks and hotel-books do not.

  7. One of the best books for boys of all ages, so attractively written and illustrated as to fascinate the reader into staying up until all hours to finish .

  8. Of all books recently published on practical electricity for the youthful electricians, it is doubtful if there is even one among them that is more suited to this field.

  9. There are no better books for boys than Francis Rolt-Wheeler's 'U.

  10. The most fascinating of all books for a boy must, therefore, be one dealing with the mystery of this ancient force and modern wonder.

  11. After removing her hat and putting her books away she begins to tell her mother of the wonderful things learned at school that day.

  12. She is dressed in a simple becoming gown of white, and she carries her school books with her.

  13. Printed books are used, but mostly for the very young, as information is usually transmitted impressionally.

  14. Then I went to the castle to examine the books and other objects which, however, are by no means valuable and which I have bought with the rest of the fief.

  15. He published several books marked by real learning, which secured him a place in the French Academy in 1844.

  16. I have spent the last few days in arranging my new library and putting the books in order.

  17. Like many timid boys, he liked books of adventure and to imagine himself heroic in situations of peril.

  18. Rivers was at his table in a room littered with books and newspapers.

  19. Take what books you want, and ask me about the politics of the day.

  20. It held a few books and was secured by long custom from men's tobacco smoke.

  21. He read no books as of old, but would have Leila read to him the war news until he fell asleep, when she quietly slipped away.

  22. The three Grey Pine people stood apart while books and clothes and little else were carried across the road and stored in the village houses.

  23. Tell them to get out my books and what they can, but to run no risks.

  24. Then with a glance at the paper, "Your uncle's books must be dusted; I quite forgot it; I will set Susan to work this morning.

  25. The Bible books ought to be read at different ages of a man's life.

  26. Brief talks with Rivers of books and politics filled the after-dinner hour, and when he left John fell with eagerness on the newspapers of the day.

  27. As he walks to school with his books under his left arm, his right hand roams over his person; and in the class-room the movements are repeated.

  28. Nevertheless, confusion remains, and in many text-books the unfortunate sacrifice of analytical accuracy to a premature desire for the schematic classification of disease has not tended to lessen it.

  29. He could talk glibly and superficially about books; he simulated considerable enthusiasm for the books which Andrew admired.

  30. The room was filled with books arranged after whimsical associations.

  31. He had amused himself for years in deciding what books should be "crowned," as he called it, and what not.

  32. So he bought one of those little hand-books which the founder of the Thomsonian system sold dirt-cheap at twenty dollars apiece, and which told how to cure or kill in every case.

  33. You allers beat everybody all holler in books and spellin'-matches, Andy.

  34. For the education one gets from books is sadly one-sided, unless it be balanced by a knowledge of the world.

  35. Blue Bonnet has the very finest kind of wholesome, honest, lively girlishness and cannot but make friends with every one who meets her through these books about her.

  36. I am going to write books and books before I come home to die.

  37. All these half-melancholy thoughts crowded through Molly's mind while Judy thrummed the guitar and Nance, busy soul, arranged the books on the new white book shelves.

  38. Then Katherine shot up and said she could prove that she weighed a pound more than her sister, and instead of putting her allowance into books that autumn, she had laid in a stock of clothes.

  39. I planned to get books for them and to arrange a reading room, but my dream was soon shattered upon discovering that this broader view possessed no charm.

  40. The books which Joe had scorned, the crystal clock and our Lares and Penates were in our Denver home, but on the ranch I missed them and most of all the old familiar faces.

  41. They positively trembled with excitement as they learned to read and laboriously spelled out the words in the simple books we gave them.

  42. With pumps going night and day, they made their way to the Cape of Good Hope; but off the island of Ascension the Roebuck went down, carrying with her many of Dampier's books and papers.

  43. Again Carpini tells us about that mythical character figuring in the travel books of this time--Prester John.

  44. At last they were ordered to appear at the Court of the great ruler with all their books and vestments.

  45. During this period he made a collection of all the travels and books of earth description--the first the world had ever known--and stored them in the Great Library of which he must have felt so justly proud.

  46. Books and charts were supplied, Ptolemy's geography was on board, as well as the Book of Marco Polo.

  47. One of the first books on Ski-running advises people to carry some 60 metres of red tape and to let this trail behind them when crossing dangerous ground.

  48. A great many books on the technique of Ski-ing followed each other fast and furiously--Zdarsky and Lilienfeld, Caulfeild and Lunn, Roget Hoeg and others all contributing to the controversy on technique.

  49. It is the only series of books published under the control of this great organization, whose sole object is the welfare and happiness of the boy himself.

  50. There should constantly be presented to him the books the boy likes best, yet always the books that will be best for the boy.

  51. In later lists, books of a more serious sort will be included.

  52. The Commission invites suggestions as to future books to be included in the Library.

  53. All the books chosen have been approved by them.

  54. It hasn’t been easy work for me to sell books every summer, but I’ve done it.

  55. He straightened things around in his room, put his books away and after a minute or two found Hal’s note.

  56. Yes, you despise the man books confined.

  57. Peter dug at his books all the harder.

  58. As far as the writer knows, this is the first time that a street railway corporation has voluntarily opened all its books for use in an appraisal which may be made public.

  59. The total of what remains is added to the voucher total and represents the cash expended for the benefit of the original property, as shown by the books and vouchers.

  60. The discount has been treated as an interest charge on the books of the company, and was being written off from year to year.

  61. No effort whatever was made to examine or audit the financial books of any company, or to secure from such books any data as to cost of property; the work was entirely limited to the listing of physical property.

  62. All traveling expenses (except hotel and subsistence) were paid, the State issuing mileage books to all employees, and receiving a complete check on the movements of every man through the mileage bureau.

  63. Prices were furnished by the leading manufacturers, and in many cases were secured from the books of the railroad company.

  64. Again, the books prescribe[13] that the hero shall appear in every act; yet Chārudatta does not appear in acts ii.

  65. For you must remember, Nature herself gives women wit; Men learn from books a little bit.

  66. She knew he would die if separated from her, and she said the books would kill him.

  67. Therese thrust books away from her with impatience.

  68. MASON Philadelphia Evening Bulletin: In spirit and color it reminds us of the very remarkable books of Mr. Conon Doyle.

  69. They talked of theatres in London, and the last plays which they had seen, the last books which they had read six years ago.

  70. His books had nothing to say on the subject, and, while the men knew by report of many abandoned mining properties, they had not heard of one bearing the name in question.

  71. The most recent books were sent to her, and the latest music found its way into the wilderness for her amusement.

  72. Annora, if the angels that write in men's books have no worse to set down in thine than what thou hast told me, I count they shall reckon their work full light.

  73. He's edicated too, an' knows books like a school teacher.

  74. The amount of matter in this book, which is in clear and neat, though small type, fully equals that in other books of twice the size and cost.

  75. Any of the above books will be sent, post-paid, by the publishers, on receipt of the price.

  76. Any one of you might have found out all this for himself, without books and without a teacher.

  77. Can you or any of your numerous correspondents suggest a remedy for the worm in old books and MSS.

  78. It is but little the English now know of the Hindoo organisation, and the little they do know is derived from books not tested nor acknowledged by such learned persons.

  79. So many of our Correspondents seem disposed to avail themselves of our plan of placing the booksellers in direct communication with them, that we find ourselves compelled to limit each list of books to two insertions.

  80. Of far greater merit were the four books of Augustine, De Consensu Quatuor Evangeliorum.

  81. The reading matter will consist of three books in each half of the courses for adults, and two books and WIDE AWAKE in each half of Young Folks' Course.

  82. She has books and papers, and best of all, her dear Master Jesus in this Home.

  83. One day when Susie was visiting her great-aunt, she found in one of her old books an excellent rule.

  84. Here is the weed of "Carelessness" popping up its naughty head to trouble Louise; it is so much easier to leave the books or the playthings just where they happen to drop; at least it seems easier at the time.

  85. I am anxious that the Pansies in their youth gather books about them which will not have to be cast aside as outgrown in a few months, but can be given honorable places on their library shelves when they are men and women.

  86. A list of the books adopted for the various courses also sent free.

  87. There will be new and interesting books for the members of the Pansy Society, and, as before, a generous space will be devoted to answers to correspondents in the P.

  88. Oh, yes, I see her," as a young lady turning over books at the farther end of the stall acknowledged his presence by a laughing nod.

  89. On the table by his side stood a single candle, and by its light Clode saw that the little cupboard among the books was open.

  90. Several books of all this detail were accumulated in trying to nail down several commercial varieties that would be propagated from this vast amount of material.


  91. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "books" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    account; bill; books; daybook; inventory; invoice; journal; ledger; log; manifest; menu; register; registry; statement


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    books and; books bound; books printed; books published; books should; books were