Then he went over to the table where his schoolbooks ought to have been.
The schoolbooks in England in Locke's day, as he tells us (p.
Another was the provision of free heat, and later on free schoolbooks and supplies.
I never tried to run away again; my grandmother never scolded me, but my shame as I put on the new shoes and took the new schoolbooks was punishment enough.
Moreover my fault was made worse by the fact that I had lost my schoolbooks which I was taking home for the study-hour in the morning.
In all my schoolbooks your face comes back to me as I open them in fancy.
Her tall strong figure did not bend in the wind, and the schoolbooks she carried in her hand broke the straight line of her figure only to heighten the priestess effect that her approaching presence produced.
Allow me to take a snapshot or two at some of the peculiar text matter printed in the American schoolbooks of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in order that I may more clearly emphasize the contrast between the new and the old.
The illustrations in the early schoolbooks were as bad or worse than the text matter.
This firm was organized and began publishing schoolbooks about 1878.
Frederick Ives of Philadelphia in 1881, but that the development of color work in schoolbooks has been within the last forty years.
The publication ofschoolbooks by the American house was begun in 1890.
The present educational enterprise of this company was started in May, 1904, and the first two schoolbooks of the present list were a school edition of The Man Without a Country, and the series known as the Wide Awake Readers.
Meriwether and Professor Johnson have rather thoroughly and with reasonably satisfactory completeness given us an account of the schoolbooks of colonial times and of the clumsy and slow process of manufacturing and distributing them.
It is not necessary for me to speak in such a presence as this of the contents of modernschoolbooks in order to point out how vastly superior in every respect they are to the contents of books of the earlier days.
This firm has been publishingschoolbooks since 1860.
This and books like it were used as schoolbooks in Egypt.
He was aware that neither Hilda nor her son could comprehend that to a bookman schoolbooks were not books, but merely an eyesore.
Edwin replied: "What are those schoolbooksdoing there on the sideboard?
Southern Reprint] The Confederate States, at the opening of the War, had within their limits no publisher of schoolbooks which had extensive sales.
Later Inventions] The introduction of color work in the schoolbooks intended for young children resulted from the invention of the three-color plates.
Other schoolbooks of that date show similar appropriations of English engravings; but even at that time there were a few wood engravers in America.
Books are seldom manufactured in places remote from the large cities and very few of the publishers of schoolbooks make the books which they sell.
To meet this demand, a few new schoolbooks were made and copyrighted under the laws of the Confederacy; but others were reprints of Northern books such as were in general use.
It is highly probable that this firm became for a short time the Western agent for some schoolbooks made in the East.
Nearly all of the schoolbooks used in the South were printed in the North.
He pounced on the cash and the larger pile and left the insignificant schoolbooks for Mr. Smith, who thereupon became the sole owner of McGuffey's Readers.
As usual when revisions of schoolbooks are made, the older edition was continued in publication so long as a distinct demand for it existed.
The children continued to go to school, and the demand for schoolbooks soon became urgent.
Relatively to the cost of other articles, schoolbookswere not nearly so cheap as they are now.
Is large type desirable for the schoolbooks of the youngest children, and may the type be made smaller, down to a certain limit, without harm, as the children grow older, or is there one ideal size for all ages?
But that very evening she did not at once open her schoolbooks when she and her father sat down finally in the living room, the supper dishes washed and put away and the kitchen swept.
Janice was out of it like a flash with her schoolbooks and lunch.
Alan watched his games from afar, with his schoolbooks on his lap, and Eric-Franz-Greg nearby playing trucks or reading or gnawing on a sucker.
She took her place among her schoolbooks with a smouldering sense of wrong and grief in her little breast, which did not get extinguished by an hour's bending over an open "History of England.
Jones began the preparation of a series of schoolbooks in the Cherokee language and alphabet for the benefit of those children who knew no English.
Marjorie brought home her schoolbooks on Thursday, and left them in the house while she went out to play.
There has been an immense improvement in our English schoolbooks since their compilers condescended to look into theschoolbooks of France.
It was not to be expected that he should find the schoolbooks of the old grammarians in any way adapted to his purpose.
Many lessons were in the schoolbooks of my day that are not in the schoolbooks to-day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "schoolbooks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
