Of course, we ain't all bookworms and college professors.
Tammany Leaders Not Bookworms You hear a lot of talk about the Tammany district leaders bein' illiterate men.
Smith was very comical about a remedy of Lady Holland's for the bookworms in the library at Holland House, having the books washed with some mercurial preparation.
But the eccentricities and peculiarities of bookworms are left to us to notice, without our incurring the displeasure of any liberal-minded student or book-collector.
The illustrious progenitors ofbookworms were such personages as the venerable Bede, Alfred the Great, and Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury.
The old clerks or copyists of the convents were the primitive bookworms indubitably.
There are hundreds and thousands of such cases, but not many bookworms of the type I have mentioned.
Corrosive sublimate, being a deadly poison, will prevent the attack of bookworms or other insects, but for the same reason must only be used by responsible people, and paste in which it is used must be kept out of the way of domestic animals.
Alum is said to be a preventive, but I have known bookworms to eat their way through leather pasted on with paste containing alum, when, in recovering, the old wooden boards containing bookworms have been utilised in error.
Bookworms do not attack modern books very much; probably they dislike the alum put in the paste and the mill-boards made of old tarred rope.
In old books, especially such as come from Italy, it is often found that the ravages of the bookworms are almost entirely confined to the glue on the backs of the books, and it generally seems that the glue and paste attract them.
When on shaking the boards of an old book dust flies out, or when little heaps of dust are found on the shelf on which an old book has been standing, it may be considered likely that there are bookworms present.
Any book that is found to contain bookworms should be isolated and at once treated.
But I must not dwell longer on the monastic bibliophiles of Evesham, other libraries and bookworms call for some notice from my pen.
The Under Folk get in and open the books—at least, they send the Bookworms in to open them.
At least, that’s what the Bookworms do, and I don’t see why you should be different.
A Roman grammarian who probably lived at the beginning of the fifth century.
Johnson's poem may be found in Hales's Longer English Poems.
He delighted in boasting of its eminent graduates and would have left to it his house at Lichfield had not wiser friends induced him to bequeath it to some poor relatives.
Note that Petrarch "may be said to have rediscovered Greek, which for some six centuries had been lost to the western world.
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