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Example sentences for "circulating library"

  • It must be very pleasant to manage a circulating library--a small one like this, I mean.

  • And then he told them how he was going back to his business in the neighboring city, and he told them what it was, and how he had come to manage a circulating library.

  • But I do not think any one should begin in a circulating library to study a book that will take him a year to finish; for, from what you say, it will take this gentleman at least that time to finish Dormstock's book.

  • Then there is a circulating library in raised books to which the poor can belong free of charge, and others by paying the subscription required by the Committee.

  • To support a Circulating Library consisting of books in various systems of relief printing, to the advantages of which the indigent blind shall be admitted free of charge, and others by paying the subscription required by the Committee.

  • The mental and religious welfare of the blind is also sought; and a circulating library of books in relief type has been established, to which the indigent are admitted free of charge.

  • In the preface to Polly Honeycomb, which was acted at Drury Lane theatre in 1760, George Colman, the author, gives the titles of about two hundred novels whose names appeared in a circulating library at that time.

  • Polly gets her books from a circulating library in London, or purchases them from the bookseller, and she keeps up with the new books as they come out, but she does not mention any of the books in Colman's list.

  • Madam, a circulating library in a town is, as an evergreen tree, of diabolical knowledge .

  • Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge!

  • In my way hither, Mrs. Malaprop, I observed your niece's maid coming forth from a circulating library!

  • For a circulating library, on the other hand, composed chiefly of what the public most seek to read, half that average would perhaps express the full commercial value of the collection.

  • Such vile practices or defacements are not always traceable to the true offender, especially in a circulating library, where the hours are so busy as to prevent the librarian from looking through the volumes as they come in from the readers.

  • In a circulating library, a fixed rule limiting the time for which a book may be kept, is essential.

  • Besides all this other work, I find the ladies are much in favor of a Circulating Library in the church, so I am going to found my library soon.

  • In this devout conviction, devote we to the infernal gods the memory of the Athenian republic--the first keeper of a circulating library.

  • Conceive the interlarding of a funny Mrs Friday to eke out the matter, with a comical king of the Cannibal islands "to lighten the story"--according to circulating library demand!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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