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Example sentences for "libraries"

Lexicographically close words:
libido; libra; librarian; librarians; librarianship; librarum; library; libras; libration; libratory
  1. Ecclesiastical archives and libraries of episcopal sees and grand seminaries that are claimed by the State are to be immediately transferred to the State.

  2. The confiscation of these archives and libraries by a pagan state is, to my mind, the most serious loss.

  3. Money can always be found again, but when impious vandals have destroyed or dispersed these libraries and archives, they can never be replaced.

  4. A list of the libraries referred to as containing the broadsides, and a chronological list of the proclamations precede the body of the text.

  5. There is no large collection of broadside proclamations in any one American library, although many of the larger public and historical libraries possess occasional issues, and these, so far as found, have been noted.

  6. As original broadsides, they are very rarely found in English depositories, but are scattered throughout the libraries and archives of America.

  7. In America we run practically all our libraries for ourselves, but it would seem to us preposterous to think of running our theatres.

  8. We run our libraries in the same way, and likewise our job of fire protection.

  9. Karl von Vierordt (died 1884) is well known by his "Manual of Physiology," still in demand as a reference book in the libraries of universities.

  10. The holiest men of the Christian centuries, equipped with the choicest mental forces, enlightened by the light of grace, have worked on its growth; toiling and praying, they filled libraries with their books.

  11. This was so that he would have part of the daytime to read in public libraries and to try experiments.

  12. There were only seventy-five or eighty of these sets of bird books made, but you can see them in the Boston Public Library, the Lenox and Astor libraries in New York city, and at several colleges and private homes.

  13. So he hired people to read to him, to go to libraries to look at old papers and letters, and to copy the notes he made on a queer machine.

  14. Free libraries have a special claim on every ratepayer who desires to see our country advance to the front, and keep pace with the world in art, science, and commerce, and augment the sum of human happiness.

  15. But the appetite for reading did not diminish in the least, and hence it happened that Free Libraries began to supersede Mechanics' Institutes.

  16. Two noble libraries were sold for forty shillings, for waste paper.

  17. Thus, in 1550 "the ancient libraries were by their appointment rifled.

  18. James went from libraries to academic disputations, thence to dinner, and from dinner to look on at comedies played by the students.

  19. Their plate they had given up to the King's service, and it was now melted into money which had long since been spent; in some places the very libraries were dissipated.

  20. To whom does our profession owe this already large collection of books, exceeded in numbers only by four or five of the most extensive medical libraries in the country, and lodged in a building so well adapted to its present needs?

  21. For libraries are the standing armies of civilization, and an army is but a mob without a general who can organize and marshal it so as to make it effective.

  22. From amongst others the notable and varied publications of the libraries Ollendorff, Larousse, Hachette et Cie, A.

  23. For information respecting incunabula herbals in American libraries I am indebted to Dr.

  24. No copy of this edition in any of the chief British libraries and no other record of it.

  25. If any copies of these editions are in private libraries I should be grateful to hear of them.

  26. Copies in American libraries are noted in the list.

  27. Sunday-school libraries are not often wholly composed of this class of works, but any one who takes the trouble to examine the books of such a library will be able to select the most pernicious ones by the external appearance.

  28. We have known young ladies still in their teens who had read whole libraries of the most exciting novels.

  29. The historian of the private libraries of New York makes us acquainted with a sect well known in the actually sporting world, but not heretofore familiar in the bibliological.

  30. The Private Libraries of New York, by James Wynne, M.

  31. Footnote 54: I am not aware that in the blue-books, or any other source of public information, there is any authenticated statement of the quantity of literature which the privileged libraries receive through the Copyright Act.

  32. Robespierre, draft of decree before, concerning the public libraries of Paris, 209.

  33. A volume, called The Private Libraries of New York, by James Wynne, M.

  34. Men who have had the opportunity of rummaging among old libraries in their boyhood are the most likely to cultivate pets of this kind.

  35. I suppose your monks have private libraries of their own," I said, "which contain accounts of travels, with historical and scientific works.

  36. Libraries were established and manuscripts accumulated; but at the time of the Turkish invasion a multitude of the most valuable documents were destroyed.

  37. The separate editions likewise of Drake's other voyages which are to be met with in public libraries are in small quarto, so that there would be no argument from analogy in favor of an edition in 12mo.

  38. Then both the kirk and the meeting-house got libraries attached to them, and Luckie Riddle found the libraries by far the most powerful opposition she had had to contend wi'.

  39. If there were libraries on a large scale in every district city, they would be valuable and much-needed helps.

  40. Projected upon this tremendous plan, the standard histories are not only libraries in size, but are enormously expensive in price.

  41. We had best reconcile ourselves to the inevitable, admit that we cannot be sincere because the police dare not allow it, and acquit the libraries of this one sin, that they killed in English literature a sincerity which was not there.

  42. Inquiries made of publishers show that they expect to sell to the circulating libraries seventy to seventy-five per cent.

  43. Not long ago it caused the Municipal Libraries of Doncaster and Dewsbury to banish Tom Jones and to pronounce Westward Ho!

  44. The libraries did not deprive of sustenance the authors of Limehouse Nights and Capel Sion, and in their new spirit did not interfere when Mr Galsworthy's heroine, in Beyond, made the best of one world and of two men.

  45. The libraries have not killed sincerity; they have done no more than trammel it.

  46. The book was banned by all libraries owing to its alleged hectic qualities, and in due course achieved a moderate measure of scandalous success.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "libraries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.