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  • Bookshelves stacked with leather-bound tomes covered the walls.†   (source)
  • We'd be done six months later, and the world would be graced with our mighty tome.†   (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)
  • I look at the guys next tome, and they strike me as too young and inexperienced to act.†   (source)
  • Then it occurred tome.†   (source)
  • I held out my hand and summoned the little blue tome we'd stolen from Paris: The Book of Overcoming Set.†   (source)
  • I looked at the two sets of double doors leading out of the room, one labeled TOMES the other STACKS.†   (source)
  • Can you imagine what this feels like tome ?†   (source)
  • He had an extensive library, divided between medical tomes and Islamic propaganda.†   (source)
  • Instead of poring over tomes about contract law, I was now absorbed by novels.†   (source)
  • He had looked up the symptom in The Home Medical Encyclopedia, an invaluable tome in twelve volumes which his wife had gotten a volume at a time by saving her checkout slips from the Shop 'n Save in South Paris.†   (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)
  • Looks old tome.†   (source)
  • From now on, this shall be our sacred tome.†   (source)
  • Although I never dared stay long, I was able to steal half hours reading Mum Olga's dusty tomes.†   (source)
  • I thought it was an excellent sign that it was one of those old leather-bound tomes.†   (source)
  • Lotus handed it tome, wished me good fortune, and swayed down the alley and around the corner.†   (source)
  • Later that night, while she's loading the dishwasher in her kitchen and her husband is upstairs in the third-floor study with his econometric tomes, she turns Cedric's two papers over in her head.†   (source)
  • The tome slammed against the wall and dropped with a loud thud to the floor.†   (source)
  • Rabbi Bloom began to scour his bookshelves, finally lighting on one dusty tome, which he skimmed through until he found a certain page.†   (source)
  • Reuven, you and your father were a blessing tome.†   (source)
  • From a shelf she carefully lifted a heavy tome and placed it gently on a table.†   (source)
  • It looks likely tome.†   (source)
  • And then it gradually became clear even tome that he did not intend to have it consecrated at all.†   (source)
  • Jace scooped up a stack of heavy-looking tomes from a nearby table.†   (source)
  • Books were everywhere: great piles of leather tomes stuffed onto shelves, stacked in precarious towers, or scattered in seemingly random arrangements on the floor.†   (source)
  • Jessica looked down at her books, especially the heavy trig tome.†   (source)
  • You look like a perfectly respectable girl tome.†   (source)
  • How many dozens of obscure Latin and Greek tomes did you read as the marsh ebbed to and fro, the insects buzzed around the marble mausoleums, and the moths ate your father's tweed hunting jackets?" he asked, after failing to salute.†   (source)
  • What would you have said tome?†   (source)
  • As a matter of fact, I recall that I had been hired in the first place largely on the basis of a trial blurb I had written for an already published McGraw-Hill tome, The Story of the Chrysler Building.†   (source)
  • For a long tome, he looked into Govinda's face.†   (source)
  • It is a heavy tome of over seven hundred pages,   (source)
  • Her brother ran a finger down the long shelf of cracked leather bindings and old dusty tomes.†   (source)
  • Lorren lay the request-ledger from Tomes on the table.†   (source)
  • He dropped the tome heavily on the first.†   (source)
  • The assassin slammed shut the tome, dust flying into the air.†   (source)
  • Ned closed Malleon's tome and bid him enter.†   (source)
  • The answer was found in dusty, forgotten tomes on alchemy, mysticism, magic, and philosophy.†   (source)
  • You'll have to stick with Tomes or come back later, after they've updated the books."†   (source)
  • "Why don't you run along to Tomes and play the good little fetch-and-carry girl?" he said coldly.†   (source)
  • You'll find all the necessary tomes used for most of the basic classes."†   (source)
  • People down in the Tomes complain when it takes us an hour to bring them what they want.†   (source)
  • Or maybe he slipped in past the desk in Tomes.†   (source)
  • The body and the person locked inside it belong tome.†   (source)
  • A Lannister pays his debts, he thought, and you're the only coin that's left tome.†   (source)
  • One could almost trace his studies by the rings left on faded tomes and forbidden grimoires.†   (source)
  • Should my brother die, Karhold should pass tome, but my uncles want my birthright for their own.†   (source)
  • Had Brandt ever referred tome using a feminine pronoun?†   (source)
  • Joffrey shoved the tome across the table.†   (source)
  • Max's eyes settled on one thick tome written by an imp named Calumny.†   (source)
  • She thrust a quill-copied tome at the Director.†   (source)
  • Sofia, who the moment before had been in the lobby, was seated at the Grand Duke's desk, leaning diligently over her tome.†   (source)
  • The first sentence was "This tome will endeavor to scrutinize, in quasi-inclusive breadth, the epistemology of ophthalmologically contrived appraisals of ocular systems and the subsequent and requisite exertions imperative for expugnation of injurious states," and as Violet read it out loud to her sister, both children felt the dread that comes when you begin a very boring and difficult book.†   (source)
  • Sophie tilted her head and scanned the list of titles: THE TEMPLAR REVELATION: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ THE WOMAN WITH THE ALABASTER JAR: Mary Magdalene and the Holy Grail THE GODDESS IN THE GOSPELS Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine "Here is perhaps the best-known tome," Teabing said, pulling a tattered hardcover from the stack and handing it to her.†   (source)
  • On the way to the door, Lord Petyr spied Grand Maester Malleon's massive tome on the table and paused to idly flip open the cover.†   (source)
  • From that night onward, the two men left the tomes of history on the bookshelves where they belonged and advanced their studies of America through the medium of film.†   (source)
  • Their only issue, an unnamed boy described in Malleon's tome as a large and lusty lad born with a full head of black hair, died in infancy.†   (source)
  • He was bent over the biggest book Arya had ever seen, a great thick tome with cracked yellow pages of crabbed script, hound between faded leather covers, but he closed it to listen to Harwin's report.†   (source)
  • The tome was over a century old.†   (source)
  • There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked s TACKS and the other TOMES.†   (source)
  • Moving stiffly, Fela got up from the desk, gathered up the book she'd been trying to read, and headed into Tomes.†   (source)
  • When I was in the Tomes.†   (source)
  • As possessors of this gift, many of you may remember the earlier days, and thus you may keep whatever tomes and lore survive the Fading.†   (source)
  • Putting down the red volume, he selected another book, this one a massive, wood-paneled tome nearly a foot thick.†   (source)
  • Lifting their hems off the floor, she and Farica wended their way in single file toward the back of the room, past hourglasses and scales, arcane tomes bound with black iron, dwarven astrolabes, and piles of phosphorescent crystal prisms that produced fitful blue flashes.†   (source)
  • Eragon thought of Tenga alone, in the ruined elf outpost of Edur Ithindra, hunched over his precious hoard of tomes, searching, always searching, for his elusive "answer."†   (source)
  • And of course there was even less chance of his coming on the fragmentary, anonymous, blood-soaked tome sometimes called Blood and Fire and sometimes The Death of Dragons, the only surviving copy of which was supposedly hidden away in a locked vault beneath the Citadel.†   (source)
  • With this sacred tome, the ancient Egyptians mummified their dead and prepared them for the afterlife.†   (source)
  • And so every day he repaired to the maester's chambers high atop Sea Dragon Tower, to frown over scrolls and parchments and great leather tomes and try to puzzle out a few more words.†   (source)
  • David tugged at Max's arm and the two hurried up the steps, winding up and around the Archives' perimeter until they stopped, breathless, at a remote stack of dusty tomes and ribbonbound papers.†   (source)
  • She insisted that she was the only one who might stop this terrible plan, and she wrote long into the night on a secret tome which she said was of the utmost importance.†   (source)
  • But you're not listening tome.†   (source)
  • During the daylight hours she would try to read, but the books that they had given her were deadly dull: ponderous old histories and geographies, annotated maps, a dry-as-dust study of the laws of Dome, The Seven-Pointed Star and Lives of , the High Septons, a huge tome about dragons that somehow made them about as interesting as newts.†   (source)
  • My library now includes tomes such as A History of Lead Mining in the Pennines, which is not a volume I ever expected to own.†   (source)
  • Arriving back . at his room, Cedric packs items into his bookbag like a survivalist bound for the woods-his black calculus loose-leaf notebook, with color-coded pages of notes and carefully filed quizzes and homework; Schaum's Outline Series, a college-level cram book; his Texas Instruments TI-82, with graphing function; a pack of fresh pencils in the bookbag's front pouch; and the glossy, hard-covered Calculus, a thick tome of 480 pages (most of them untrammeled at this point).†   (source)
  • No. "By signing your name in the Sanctuary Tome," continued YaYa, "you hereby pledge to care for Nick and to look after him to the best of your ability.†   (source)
  • Miss Boon was also there, snoring lightly in a bedside chair and half mumbling some sentence from the tome that was slipping from her fingers.†   (source)
  • For years, he has written scholarly tomes about education of the minorities, from analysis of how the children of Japanese Americans interned during WWII were schooled, to a complex assessment of how statutory changes at the turn of the century allowed immigrant minorities-in those days Jews, Italians, and Irish— access to education.†   (source)
  • When you have your answers, send tome.†   (source)
  • It took him half a dozen further cuts to hack the thick tome apart, and the boy was breathless by the time he was done.†   (source)
  • Grand Maester Pycelle was seated at his table, his head pillowed on the great leather-bound tome before him.†   (source)
  • He couldn't help scanning the desk, however, and his eyes came to rest on a particularly imposing tome.†   (source)
  • He's tome for the life."†   (source)
  • Her captain being an especially bookish man, she carried three—a collection of nautical poetry that went from bad to worse, a well-thumbed tome about the erotic adventures of a young slave girl in a Lysene pillow house, and the fourth and final volume of The Life of the Triarch Belicho, a famous Volantene patriot whose unbroken succession of conquests and triumphs ended rather abruptly when he was eaten by giants.†   (source)
  • One day as the guys pored over the musty tomes, which they came to consider their personal property during the reading period, Jasper stumbled on the section dealing with snakes.†   (source)
  • The kids dutifully reached into their desks, knocked the layers of dust off these neglected tomes, and spread them officially on their desks.†   (source)
  • Quite a tome, my dear, and what did I find?†   (source)
  • It looked damn like it tome.†   (source)
  • The news finally spread abroad that he had returned with tomes of masses and motets by Palestrina, Morales and Vittoria, as well as thirty-five plays by Tirso de Molina and Ruiz de Alarcon and Moreto.†   (source)
  • I, who had walked the streets of Rome in Genoa velvet and had seen the stars through Galileo's tube, spurned the friars, with their dusty tomes and their sunken, jealous eyes and their crabbed hairsplitting speech.†   (source)
  • "Muvver sended for oo," cried Fay, as Jane kissed her, "an' oo never tome."†   (source)
  • The man's face seemed tome to be refined and even pleasant.†   (source)
  • While rapidly making these comments my uncle kept opening and shutting the old tome.†   (source)
  • In many dark old tomes she met with chapters full of romance and poetry.†   (source)
  • …brought by a sage five hundred volumes; busy with affairs of state, he bade him go and condense it; in twenty years the sage returned and his history now was in no more than fifty volumes, but the King, too old then to read so many ponderous tomes, bade him go and shorten it once more; twenty years passed again and the sage, old and gray, brought a single book in which was the knowledge the King had sought; but the King lay on his death-bed, and he had no time to read even that; and…†   (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)
  • I really think I shall add some botanical tomes to my collection, just to become somewhat better informed about this part of life, this realm of knowledge.†   (source)
  • She knew something about real life, had in fact spent a couple of years as a clerk in a provincial branch office of a national bank, sitting on a swivel stool, a sleeve-protector on her right arm, and staring at massive tomes—and had ended up with a fever.†   (source)
  • The small, richly gilt French tomes of the last age, with the hundred volumes of Voltaire among them, went off in a brilliant shower of sparkles and little jets of flame; while the current literature of the same nation burned red and blue, and threw an infernal light over the visages of the spectators, converting them all to the aspect of party-colored fiends.†   (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)
  • I snuffed it off, and, very ill at ease under the influence of cold and lingering nausea, sat up and spread open the injured tome on my knee.†   (source)
  • A man tome is a man, wherever I find him.†   (source)
  • I reckon the reason all the Compson gave out before it got tome like Mother says, is that he drank itup.†   (source)
  • What have you got to say tome?†   (source)
  • Youaint talking tome.†   (source)
  • Understanding, he shifted his tomes to his left breast and saluted the second carriage.†   (source)
  • Denis Breen in skimpy frockcoat and blue canvas shoes shuffled out of Harrison's hugging two heavy tomes to his ribs.†   (source)
  • Denis Breen with his tomes, weary of having waited an hour in John Henry Menton's office, led his wife over O'Connell bridge, bound for the office of Messrs Collis and Ward.†   (source)
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