Bothwell's chief delight was derived from his own little inventions and contrivances, his shelvesin odd corners, his pegs and books, and ingenious little cupboards.
This was the only piece of furniture in the room, unless some shelves crowded with papers tied up in bundles, and a cupboard in the wall, likewise filled with papers, could be called furniture.
There was nothing for his eyes to rest upon but those bundles and bundles of dust-browned papers on the shelves before him.
Passing shelves piled-up with stores of old thread, she still went on, led by a curiosity stronger than her gathering fear.
High shelves around the walls of a long, shed-like room were crowded with retorts and phials.
The Lower Fifth class-room, newly scrubbed and reeking of naphthaline, with naked shelves and treble range of isolated desks, was unfamiliar, curiously disconcerting.
That book-shelves lined the rectangular portion of this strange study I divined, although that end of the place was dark as a catacomb.
The three lower shelveswere empty, but upon the fourth shelf squatted a silver Buddha.
I lighted a cigarette with such an air of nonchalance as I could summon to the operation, and began casually to inspect the varied articles of virtu loading the shelves and tables about me.
However they got it cheaper for that, and instantly set about brushing it up, fitting proper shelves for the business, and making the dwelling house habitable.
Eli said he was willing, but afraid they would drink and gamble their very shelves away.
It is a numerical arrangement of the cards in the order in which the books stand on the shelves i.
In the process of reclassification, it is necessary to remove the books from the shelves and the cards from the catalogue.
New books added to the library before going to their regular places in the stack are displayed on shelves back of the Reference Desk.
They are grouped on the reserve shelves according to courses of instruction and a list giving the name of the course and the number of the case where the books for that course are shelved is posted on the bulletin board.
They will be placed on the shelves in the order of their shelf marks, and should be returned to their places when not in actual use.
The current numbers of 1200 of these are placed on the shelves around the Periodical Room and in the adjoining stack.
These are useful because they show all books in a class whether or not they happen to be on the shelves at any one time.
Shelves on shelves of these wonder-things complete, and a whole great table laden with them in half-finished forms.
What Madame and the children had intended to have for supper I do not know, for there was nothing in the kitchen but the fire, the stove, the table, some shelves of dishes and an enormous bed.
She responded, first by much talk, much consultation with Solange, and finally by going to one of the shelves that held the pans and taking down some paper-covered books.
To harden the wood of the early-grown plants, or autumn or winter flowering, it is advisable to remove them to some cooler place, such as the shelves of the greenhouse.
The decayed leaves to be trimmed off, the surface of the soil to be stirred, and the pots to be placed on shelves near the glass.
To be placed on swing or other shelves as near to the glass as possible.
On the walls here and there single shelves of dark wood put up for books, and filled with them; a pretty lamp on the little leaf table, and a wide fireplace with bright brass andirons.
Then Diana began to learn French, and very soon was delighting herself in one or other of a fine collection of French classics which filled certainshelves in the library.
The shelves of the Cincinnati Free Library might hold Henry James's "Essays" in praise of the modern French literary school, but the circulation of the originals would certainly not have been countenanced by the directors.
He turned and pointed to the glass shelves around.
Gottlieb stood before me, framed by shelves of dried flowers and herbs, a small man with a large head, kind blue eyes.
Above are two shelves the whole length of the room for large pans and coppers.
Thick kitchen table, with sliding shelves and rows of drawers.
MM, M Iron shelves of open rails for the coppers, &c.
Continental shelves may also be due in part to a submergence of the outer margin of a continental plateau and to marine abrasion.
It was perhaps along the coastal shelves of a northern land connecting America and Europe by way of Greenland and Iceland that the migration took place, so that the same species came to live in Iowa and in Sweden.
On the shelves were carefully folded piles of bedclothes, and behind the chest a smooth roll of carpet powdered with dust.
There are plenty of blankets on the shelves at the far end--make your bed on a pile of carpet that is behind the cedar chest.
The hair trunks and the broken bureau gave up no guest, nor did the deepshelves reveal anything suspicious.
Michael himself had spent all the money he could, after satisfying the needs of his everyday life, on those tracts, pamphlets, and cheap books he hoarded in his hut on shelves made from wooden boxes and old fruit-cases.
The essential features are shelves or trays 4 feet wide arranged around the walls of the room, one above the other and separated about 8 inches apart, and a heating stove placed in the center of the room.
Because they are not wisely answered the shelves of every library show examples of the unwise expenditure of money.
They are especially injurious to books on the upper shelves of a high room.
The books provided by the circulating library, the reviews and magazines, the daily newspapers, are read whilst they are novelties, but the standard authors are left on their shelves unopened.
Close to it on my shelves stand four volumes which are the monument of another intellectual life devoted to the investigation of nature.
Langmaid felt an incongruity, but he was fascinated; and he had discovered on the rector's shelves evidences of the taste for classical authors that he himself possessed.
Back to the silent office where the shelves mocked them.
More significant, more vital elements of the truth are the rewards of a mind which searches and craves, especially in these days when the fruit of so many able minds lies on the shelves of library and bookshop.
It was fitted up as a library, with tall shelves reaching almost to the ceiling.
For Janet little guessed the thought that went into the choosing of these books, nor could she know of the hours spent by this lady pondering over library shelves or consulting eagerly with Brooks Insall.
Only there aren't any shelves filled with goods and bads.
Then all of a sudden, I saw that theshelves were full,--just plumb full of people.
And it was no easy task, reorganizing those awful shelves and making sure I wasn't throwing away things Dinky-Dunk might want later on.
I draped chintz curtains over the windows, and had Olie nail two shelves in a packing-box and then carry it into my boudoir behind the drop-curtain.
I made more book-shelves out of more old biscuit-boxes and my lord made a gun-rack for our fire-arms.
Nick's eyes were hungry for the printers' stalls where ballad-sheets were sold for a penny, and where the books were piled along the shelves until he wondered if all London were turned printer.
This linen-press was the pride of Mevrouw Joost's heart, for piled high on its shelves were rolls and rolls of linen, much of it made from the flax which grew upon their place.
On the sideboard, on the shelves above the beds, and over the mantel were fine pieces of rare old Delft china, which is a beautiful deep blue.
He replaced it carefully, and walked along the shelves looking at the familiar titles.
As he spoke he looked round upon the crowded shelves of his library, and, getting up, went to the corner where there was a shelf of rare editions and took down a volume.
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