The French consume densely intellectual tomes with the fervour that we read Jackie Collins. |
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As part of the American experiment, public libraries brought the wisdom of the ancient and modern tomes to the common man. |
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Bookcases filled with tomes of indecipherable writing lined the walls of the library. |
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There are excellent tomes on Museums and on Museology, books on arts and crafts, on forests, natural history and so on. |
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The bald title suggests a cookery book or perhaps one of those popular science tomes based on a wacky premise. |
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Before she started publishing her guidebooks, the words in most botanical tomes were laid on with a trowel, leaving no room for illustrations. |
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Growling irritably to himself, he quickly scanned through a few pages of the history tomes and documents but they proved to be dry streams. |
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Tables were piled with textbooks for homeschoolers, tomes denouncing evolution, booklets waxing nostalgic for the antebellum South. |
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Frequently, Lovecraft made reference to ancient, mouldering tomes that contained secrets man was not meant to know. |
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And the main advantage is that a prospective reader can browse through endless tomes by unknown authors in their own home. |
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Gone are the pompous, moralistic tomes full of Victorian values and happy endings. |
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A splatter of blood streaked itself across several of the tomes and was only interrupted once where one book did not have any on it. |
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His apartment is filled with expensively bound tomes and corny Victorian paintings of stags at bay. |
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I opened up the jiffy bag and inside were four pink hard back tomes with some strange alien language on the cover. |
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But vernacular confessors' manuals were published almost as often as these weightier Latin tomes. |
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Now and then these old tomes are overpriced, but on occasion you can find fantastic books for giveaway prices. |
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Putting on an air of self-assurance, she marched into the room, clutching a neat stack of tomes in her other hand. |
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Heavy tomes covered much of the walls but he only ran a hand over a few of the calfskin covers. |
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In my wandering through second hand book stores, I have come across some unusual tomes. |
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Most of its members were in the library, consulting tomes and magazines for the debate the next day. |
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If you believe a public library is a majestic bastion of encyclopedic tomes, then you have not been inside one for a very long time. |
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You had to scan the microfiche or even thumb through dusty tomes at the local library or tax assessor's office. |
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He was quite gracious and signed books leaving weird little messages in each of our tomes. |
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He struggled under the weight of the heavy tomes, his twiggy arms flailing pitifully. |
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Perhaps there is a shying away from the detailed academic tomes which have become the norm in biographies, towards something more friendly to the average reader. |
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Yet politicians place an immense value on these bulky unread tomes. |
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I doubt if he's read a book since he left Oxford, other than legal tomes. |
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I browsed and noted the Tanzanian shilling prices being demanded for learned academic tomes on Law, History, Commerce and Science, all of them published in Britain. |
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There are also spindle-backed chairs, bookcases with leather bound tomes and a wallchart with coloured bars of sticky paper showing optimistic staff rotas. |
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Inside was a large brown bookshelf, jam-packed with mysterious tomes that discussed numerology, tarot, astrology, and other assorted occult subjects. |
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Nonetheless there are some readable and useful tomes that fans of men running around in shorts on a big field will find valuable. |
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It's much better than other reference tomes you might buy, and free. |
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For adherents of some disciplines, using the resources allotted to them by academia to produce arcane, unread tomes may be fine, but this isn't doing feminism any good. |
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Normally, when Christine and I do any serious bird watching, it is with the Core Team and their plethora of optical aids and identification tomes. |
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As opposed to English common law, which consists of massive tomes of case law, codes in small books are easy to export and for judges to apply. |
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The handsome stone tomes were shown in the ground floor of the Fridericianum, which once housed the libraries of the landgraves of Hesse-Kassel. |
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This made it difficult for multiple students to study one title, but helped ensure the safety of the tomes. |
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McWilliams's self-help best sellers preach a message of personal responsibility, which is a refreshing switch from the miasma of tomes hyping inner children and codependency. |
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Police found various items, such as tomes and pieces of paper with sorcerous words written on them, as well as talisman and herbs used in witchcraft. |
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