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  • A few days later, Celaena turned the crisp yellow pages of a heavy tome, squirming in her seat.†  (source)
  • Opening the tome at random, he landed on the essay "Of the Education of Children."†  (source)
  • I look at the guys next tome, and they strike me as too young and inexperienced to act.†  (source)
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  • My favourite was a tome on the nudibranch, a kind of mollusc that sheds its shell after the larval stage.†  (source)
  • The Bulldog's chief delight at the Beje, after talking with Father, were the tomes of Jewish theology now housed in Tante Jans's big mahogany case.†  (source)
  • What would you have said tome?†  (source)
  • Pater Aquillus is a jurist, and his library is filled with everything from obscure law books to ancient Scholar tomes on mathematics.†  (source)
  • It was Owen who introduced me to Wall's History of Gravesend, although I didn't read the whole book until I was a senior at Gravesend Academy, where the tome was required as a part of a town history project; Owen read it before he was ten.†  (source)
  • He had an extensive library, divided between medical tomes and Islamic propaganda.†  (source)
  • Quite a tome, my dear, and what did I find?†  (source)
  • Although I never dared stay long, I was able to steal half hours reading Mum Olga's dusty tomes.†  (source)
  • Here, on the cushion, lay a folio tome, probably of the Chronicles of England, or other such substantial literature; even as, in our own days, we scatter gilded volumes on the centre table, to be turned over by the casual guest.†  (source)
  • Instead of poring over tomes about contract law, I was now absorbed by novels.†  (source)
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