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  • A few days later, Celaena turned the crisp yellow pages of a heavy tome, squirming in her seat.†  (source)
  • We'd be done six months later, and the world would be graced with our mighty tome.†  (source)
  • My favourite was a tome on the nudibranch, a kind of mollusc that sheds its shell after the larval stage.†  (source)
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  • What would you have said tome?†  (source)
  • He had an extensive library, divided between medical tomes and Islamic propaganda.†  (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)
  • 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)
  • And he says to me, I swear it, it's true, he actually says tome...This endless conversation, the tone plaintive but oddly cheerful, flew around and around in a circle.†  (source)
  • Pater Aquillus is a jurist, and his library is filled with everything from obscure law books to ancient Scholar tomes on mathematics.†  (source)
  • Nilda wasted hours of their study time caught between the leaves of tome-sized photo albums, showing Papi each stage of Milagros's development as if the girl were an exotic bug.†  (source)
  • 'And just look at these books!' said Hermione excitedly, running a finger along the spines of the large leather-bound tomes.†  (source)
  • Looks old tome.†  (source)
  • Consider the whole machinery of the civil law made necessary by these processes; the libraries of ponderous tomes, the courts and juries to interpret them, the lawyers studying to circumvent them, the pettifogging and chicanery, the hatreds and lies!†  (source)
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