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Example sentences for "public library"

  • We found here a public library, and a botanical garden.

  • The city is lighted by both electricity and gas, issues five daily newspapers, has a very complete astronomical observatory, a public library, five railroad stations, and some very elegant public buildings.

  • Everyone realizes this who has ever tried to find a public library in a strange place.

  • The good that a public library may do, the influence that it may exert, and the position that it may assume in a community, depend very largely on the ability and tact with which it is administered and the resources at its disposal.

  • One of the first questions to be met in arranging a code of rules for the government of a public library relates to the age at which young persons shall be admitted to its privileges.

  • There are an academy of sciences, with a library of one hundred and twenty thousand volumes, a polytechnic school, a medical school, a conservatory of music, a public library of four hundred thousand volumes and two observatories.

  • The chief aid in book selection for the average small public library is the A.

  • In addition to the United States Documents referred to above there are a number of State Documents which will prove especially helpful as reference sources in a public library.

  • Of course, the problem is quite different in an academic library from what it is in a public library.

  • The endowment was accordingly offered to the Municipal Building Committee of the city in 1893, to be devoted to the construction of a public library in a new City Hall, at that time planned for Bryant Park.

  • As the donations were not confined to advocates the library was considered a kind of public library, and it has continued to retain this character.

  • The Mercantile is the popular library of the city; in no sense a public library, however, for the student or stranger must advance a pretty liberal entrance-fee before he can avail himself of its benefits.

  • Strange as it may seem, the Apprentices' is the nearest approach to a public library on a large scale that the city can boast.

  • I had visited every bookshop in Dublin, in the hope of finding a copy of the pirated (octavo) edition printed there; and but for having seen a copy in a public library, should have come to the conclusion that the book never existed.

  • Here are four more gems which appeared in the catalogue of a public library: 'Aristophanes: The Clouds of the Greek Text.

  • Subsequently he found a manuscript note in a book on the shelves of a public library referring to this very copy, which, the writer of the note stated, had been given him by the poet Pope.

  • It was the first of the many places in the United States named in honour of Benjamin Franklin (who later contributed books for the public library).

  • It has a public library and is the seat of the Fremont College, Commercial Institute and School of Pharmacy (1875), a private institution.

  • Books could occasionally be borrowed from a public library, but whether from one of those in the city of Rome, I cannot say.

  • Western Australia has a public library at Perth, which was established in 1887, and the small town institutes are assisted as in the other colonies.

  • The city is the meeting-place of a Chatauqua Assembly, and has a public library.

  • The largest of them is the Royal Library, which was founded by the "Great Elector" Frederick William, and opened as a public library in a wing of the electoral palace in 1661.

  • Magdeburg, we see an ancient foundation take up the obligations of a public library.

  • There is a public library in that town but she never uses it: and there is no home library to give her any aid.

  • There is a public library in the nearest town and she goes there every week in winter.

  • But if she does need more books than her own house supplies, there is a public library a quarter of a mile away.

  • Each city has a public library, and in Champaign are the Burnham Athenaeum, the Burnham hospital, the Garwood home for old ladies, and several parks, all gifts of former citizens.

  • There are a government high school, a German Lutheran mission, and a public library endowed by a former maharaja of Hatwa.

  • The government contends that because plaintiffs are bringing a facial challenge, they must show that under no circumstances is it possible for a public library to comply with CIPA's conditions without violating the First Amendment.

  • While plaintiffs argue that a public library's use of such filters is subject to strict scrutiny, the government maintains that the applicable standard is rational basis review.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    accomplish anything; geological time; never should; public accounts; public business; public character; public disputation; public enemy; public exhibition; public expense; public functionaries; public house; public improvements; public inspection; public liberty; public library; public meeting; public ministry; public moneys; public ownership; public property; public reception; public square; public work; public works; pure thought