This teaching proved very irksome to her, for it delayed the completion of her book, and she often meditated an escape, thinking how this might be accomplished while the nuns played at ball in the autumn afternoon.
And it was part of her temperament to leave nothing undone; she also liked a landmark, and the finishing of her book would be a landmark.
One day, passing about the room, I saw on her book-shelves, arranged with order and precision, nine little butter plates in the form of pansies.
Sally R---- sent me up her book of autographs with a request that I would add mine.
The girl's eyes had wandered again to the pages of her book.
But the passing glow had faded from her young cheeks, and her eyes wandered again to her book.
She took up her book, and leaning her head on her hand, once more became absorbed in its pages.
No, father," answered Rosey, with an effort to follow him out of the pages of her book.
As she sat there, so inattentively turning the pages of her book, the foreboding sense of some approaching drama flooded the room.
Mrs. Brandon turned the pages of her book, her ears straining for the sound of Falk's return.
The following extracts refer to the first appearance of her book, "Woman in the Nineteenth Century.
In due time Mrs. Stowe began to receive answers to the letters she had forwarded with copies of her book to prominent men in England, and these were without exception flattering and encouraging.
In looking over the first semi-annual statement presented by her publishers we find Mrs. Stowe charged, a few days before the date of publication of her book, with "one copy U.
She also found it necessary to do so in order to secure the English right to her book, which she had failed to do on "Uncle Tom's Cabin.
He had written a critical essay on her book, with prose translations of some of the lyrics, and wished to close the article with an apercu of her literary aims and intentions.
She was selfishly engrossed in her book, and sat in her room all day, with hair pinned tightly back and wild and lucent eyes.
And he too remembered very well those two words which she had told him she would write in her book.
But he was not again alone with Lily Dale, nor did he learn whether she had in truth written those two words in her book.
She had not heard his knock at the door as she had been thinking of the two words in her book.
That Shelley admired Miss Janetta's poetry, and pushed the fortunes of her book to the utmost of his ability, is certain.
The wonder is that, after making this admission in the text, the lady told a different story in the frontispiece of her book.
Minora wrote a long description of them for a chapter of her bookwhich is headed Noel,--I saw that much, because she left it open on the table while she went to talk to Miss Jones.
Minora has seen so much of the babies that, after vainly trying to get out of their way for several days, she thought it better to resign herself, and make the best of it by regarding them as copy, and using them to fill a chapter in her book.
It is a pretty custom," she said with a sigh; and pensively inscribed it in her book.
Seeing an infant among a number of persons who were strangers to me, as those present will testify, I declared that it must be the child mentioned in her book, from the striking resemblance it bears to Father Phelan, whom I well know.
I declare my personal knowledge of many facts stated in her book, and my full belief in the truth of her story, which, shocking as it is, cannot appear incredible to those persons acquainted with Canada.
Montreal last summer, and has no claim to be regarded as direct evidence for or against the authenticity of her book.
But as she picked up her book again, she soothed her conscience with the righteous resolve--"I will go to service this afternoon.
She went back to her book, and Anne poured the hot corn into a big bowl and salted it.
Oh, Judy," she said, still seeing the visions conjured up by her book.
Oh," said Anne, and picked up her book, luxuriating in the prospect of a whole morning in which to read.
While she waited for it to come to boiling point, she sat down on her little stool by the fire, and took up her book again.
I will just wait till the kettle begins to sing," thought Mona; and became absorbed in her book again.
She was too much occupied in glancing at the pictures in her book, and reading a sentence here and there.
I never thought, I never allowed myself to think, that she was so dead to spiritual things as her book forces me to believe.
Hester spoke brokenly with awe and reverence of her book, as of some mighty presence, some constraining power outside herself.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "her book" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
