Use book in a sentence
Sentences starting with book
- Book after book which he casually mentioned, as showing the drift of the age, and profoundly affecting modern thought, she knew only by name. [4]
- Book morals often get no further than the intellect, if they even get that far on their spectral and shadowy pilgrimage: but when they travel from a Children's Theatre they do not stop permanently at that halfway house, but go on home. [5]
Sentences ending with book
- What is that you have, Soter's book? [9]
- I am sure you are safe from being harmed by any such book. [6]
- But day before yesterday I concluded to go out of the Galaxy on the strength of it, so I have turned it into the last Memoranda I shall ever write, and published it as a "specimen chapter" of my forthcoming book. [5]
- I am at work again--on a book. [5]
- You know the word 'Raca' of the Book? [11]
- I hope he will not be long ere he publishes another book. [14]
- This makes the whole a very gratifying result, and perhaps explains the absence of some names on your book. [6]
- I know not whether you have seen the notice in the Leader; I read it just after concluding the book. [14]
- She was definite when she claimed both the language and the ideas of the book. [5]
- It was only when he learned the dead man's name, and his parentage, that he looked up quickly from his note book. [9]
Short sentences using book
- A Book of Travels. [5]
- To return to the book. [9]
- The Boy brought the book. [6]
- I have found the book. [5]
- I have kissed the Book. [11]
- Pierre's fingers closed the book. [11]
- Prithee, send for that book. [5]
- Memorandum book bearing no name. [5]
- That book brought me here. [11]
- This other book is French. [11]
Sentences containing book two or more times
- He probably thought very well of the book, an opinion shared by Bliss, but it is unlikely that either of them realized that it was to become a permanent classic, and the best selling book of travel for at least fifty years. [5]
- I am going to take the book down, or up,--for it is not a little one,--and write out the title, which, I dare say, you remember, and very likely you have the book. [6]
- I felt that some day I could get the book back under my control if I so desired, while the chances of the book making an immediate phenomenal sale were not great. [11]
- The book that served as a desk lay on her knee, the paper on the book. [10]
- Aunt Polly--Tom's Aunt Polly, she is--and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before. [5]
- Co. or anywhere outside of our own house; we have no subscription machinery, and a book in the trade is a book thrown away, as far as money-profit goes. [5]
- I smoked eight or ten cigars and as many pipes a day for five months; finished the book, and did not smoke again until a year had gone by and another book had to be begun. [5]
- The true merit of a great book must be learned from the book itself. [6]
- We do not object to criticism; and we do not expect that the critic will read the book before writing a notice of it: We do not even expect the reviewer of the book will say that he has not read it. [5]
- There would be no sort of use in it, since only one book in a hundred millions outlives the present copyright term--no sort of use except that the writer of that one book have his rights--which is something. [5]
More example sentences with the word book in them
- Why, he'll read your wrinkles as easy as a book, and not only tell you fifty or sixty things that's going to happen to you, but fifty or sixty thousand that ain't. [5]
- If you enter your name on the Visitor's Book at Government House you will receive an invitation to the next ball that takes place there, if nothing can be proven against you. [5]
- And after the young woman had told with great simplicity and earnestness of the struggle to support herself and lead an honest and self-respecting existence, it seemed to Honora that at last she had opened the book of life at the proper page. [9]
- Because I lent you that book, and you come to meeting, people think I'm converting you. [9]
- You remember, do you not, that the hero of that book sacrifices himself for the lady who adores him, but whom he has ceased to adore? [9]
- I have disturbed you in grave studies no doubt; what is the book you are rolling up, fair Zoe? [10]
- Submit to what you cannot avert; just as I never complain when, if I make a mistake in reading, she snatches the book from my hand, or flings it at my feet. [10]
- Of his practice you can form an opinion from his book called "Letters to a Young Physician. [3]
- To your sorrow you are aware that frequently, much too frequently, when a book gets to be five or ten years old its annual sale shrinks to two or three hundred copies, and after an added ten or twenty years ceases to sell. [5]
- I told him you and I used the Autocrat as a courting book and marked it all through, and that you keep it in the sacred green box with the love letters, and it pleased him. [5]
- John imagines that yonder big thistle is some whiskered villain, of whom he has read in a fairy book, and he advances on him with "Die, ruffian! [4]
- Again that day, yes, twice again, she stole back to the old chapel, and in her former seat read from the same book, or indulged the same quiet train of thought. [12]
- It takes seven years to complete a book by this method, but still it is a good method: gives the public a rest. [5]
- He published, some years ago, a little volume giving an account of a trip through the Great West, and a very entertaining book it was. [4]
- Mark Twain that year was working pretty steadily on 'The Yankee at King Arthur's Court', a book which he had begun two years before. [5]
- One author per year produces a book which can outlive the forty-two-year limit; that's all. [5]
- And I tell ye there are things in that Book that not one among ye can read, with all your learning! [5]
- That--in her belief--she wrote the book under the inspiration of the Deity, but furnished the language herself. [5]
- Meanwhile I had written to Miss Bronte to tell her the delight with which her book filled me; and seem to have sermonised her, to judge from her reply. [14]
- M. Howells had written that he would be glad to help out in the reading of the proofs of Huck Finn, which book Webster by this time had in hand. [5]
- Also Herdegen had written out many verses of Homer's great song from a precious written book, and had learned to master them well from the teaching of the doctor of Feltre. [10]
- This book is written of a time when feeling ran high. [9]
- Suppose he could write one book that should touch the heart of the world. [4]
- One resolves to write a book, as he might to take a journey or to practice on the piano, and the thing is done. [4]
- Nor can I write a book for its moral. [14]
- In explanation I would say that 'The Lane that Had no Turning' was written after the present book was finished. [11]
- And how much would it avail you, if you could, by the use of John Brown, Helper's Book, and the like, break up the Republican organization? [7]
- My new book would issue in March, and they would tax the sale in both countries. [5]
- The modest fellow would have liked fame thrust upon him for some worthy achievement; it might be for a book, or for the skillful management of some great newspaper, or for some daring expedition like that of Lt. Strain or Dr. Kane. [5]
- His high moral worth is certainly worth some attention; moreover, my vows, I have no doubt, are recorded in the book of life, and must I give these all up? [5]
- All over the world One Pastor for the whole of them: to wit, her book, Science and Health. [5]
- One has to work, however, in one's own way, after one's own idiosyncrasies, and here is the book that represents one of my own idiosyncrasies in its most primitive form. [11]
- A very few words may be a convenience to the reader who takes up the book and wishes to know what he is likely to find in it. [6]
- They could exchange words and looks, they could arrange private interviews, they would be stooping together over the same book, her hair touching his cheek, her breath mingling with his, all the magnetic attractions drawing them together with strange, invisible effluences. [6]
- This is a wonderful book, Galloir,' he went on. [11]
- And my experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out. [6]
- Publishers were ready with plans for collecting the letters in book form. [5]
- It is curious, with his tendency to optimism and general expansion of futures, that he says nothing of the possible sales of the new book, or of his expectations in that line. [5]
- The book fell with a loud noise to the floor. [6]
- That book had wisely been gotten out of the way, for it contained things which would be very awkward here. [5]
- When a book will sell by subscription, it will sell two or three times as many copies as it would in the trade; and the profit is bulkier because the retail price is greater..... You didn't ask me for a subscription-publisher. [5]
- This much I will say to soothe away my own compunctions, that the book will only make the bid for popularity or consideration with near a score of others, and not separately, and that my responsibility is thus modified. [11]
- The author from whom Montaigne took his facts is the elder Pliny, who, in his Natural History, Book X, Chapter 83, says, "Other animals become sated with veneral pleasures; man hardly knows any satiety. [5]
- I read the whole book twice through and some of the chapters several times, and the reason that that was as far as I got with it was that I lent it to another admirer of yours and he is admiring it yet. [5]
- There are men who might read that book and be a great deal better for it. [9]
- Some kind friend, who could challenge a nearer interest than the curious strangers into whose hands the book might fall, at last claimed it, and I was glad that it should be henceforth sealed to common eyes. [6]
- On coming home, while his valets were still taking off his things, he picked up a book and began to read. [2]
- A little book which we bought tells us all we care to know about it. [6]
- The subject from which the book just mentioned derived its title lay near to his heart. [4]
- But the paths wherein ye go to battle must be the old paths; your sword shall be your staff by day, and the Book your lantern by night. [11]
- And Janet remembered when the little red book that contained the songs had arrived at Headquarters from the west and had been distributed by thousands among the strikers. [9]
- The time came when she had learned to listen for his step, when her eyes glistened at meeting him, when the words he uttered were treasured as from something more than a common mortal, and the book he had touched was like a saintly relic. [6]
- Clemens said that when he took the Jumping Frog book to Carlton, in 1867, the latter, pointing to his stock, said, rather scornfully: "Books? [5]
- Many readers remember what old Rogers, the poet, said: "When I hear a new book talked about or have it pressed upon me, I read an old one. [6]
- But here is what I wrote: "I am a bit of a fool over this book. [11]
- Do you know what book that was? [5]
- A Scientist out West has visited a bookseller--with intent to find fault with me--and has brought away the information that the price at which Mrs. Eddy sells Science and Health is not an unusually high one for the size and make of the book. [5]
- And yet there were some reviews of a different sort, half a dozen in all, and half of them from Western journals, which took the book seriously, saw its pathos, its artistic merit, its failure of construction through inexperience. [4]
- The final chapters were not sent to the printer until the middle of May, and in a letter to Mr. Rogers he commented: "A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it. [5]
- We's doin' blame' well, en we better let blame' well alone, as de good book says. [5]
- And I listened well, and then came up here and made a splendid contract for a Quaker City book of 5 or 600 large pages, with illustrations, the manuscript to be placed in the publishers' hands by the middle of July. [5]
- The book sold well, and the eccentric personage was voted a novelty. [6]
- His book is well written and is exceedingly entertaining, and so it just barely escaped being quite valuable also. [5]
- Ali maght as well wrahte a book. [8]
- We get so we would rather Gladys would fall out of the book and break her neck than do it again. [5]
- Day after tomorrow we leave for the hills beyond Elmira, N. Y. for the summer, when I shall hope to write a book of some sort or other to beat the people with. [5]
- At this point we have an episode: Beside the shore of the brook sat a young man, about eighteen or twenty, who seemed to be reading some favorite book, and who had a remarkably noble countenance--eyes which betrayed more than a common mind. [5]
- A book which we could master and possess in an evening we can have read to us in a month in the club, without the least intellectual effort. [4]
- And by the way, if I am interfering with any engagement--" "My book is not so full as all that. [9]
- Is there any way to tell a good book from a bad one? [4]
- Plainly the book was written under the mental desolations of the Third Degree, and I feel sure that none but the membership of that Degree can discover meanings in it. [5]
- One gentleman, who was very familiar with American literature, said he had never seen it mentioned in any book. [5]
- When little Gordon was two years old, 'he was playing horse on the bed, where I had left my "little book. [5]
- When little Gordon was two years old, "he was playing horse on the bed, where I had left my 'little book. [5]
- As the patient was to sit up in the evening, he appointed to visit her in her room at a certain hour, and rambling out with his book, did not return until the hour arrived. [12]
- And the book was the "Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. [9]
- Then the quarto was published, and Ben Jonson awoke out of his long indifference and sang a song of praise and put it in the front of the book. [5]
- The book, however, was not begun immediately. [5]
- And yet Philip was not allowed to be unduly elated by the attention of his fellow-craftsmen, for he soon found that a man's consequence in this circle, as well as with the great public, depended largely upon the amount of the sale of his book. [4]
- On the table was lying a little leather book, stamped with gold,--her prayerbook. [9]
- General Grant, hard-pressed, was induced by the editors to prepare one or more articles, and, finding that he could write them, became interested in the idea of a book. [5]
- Before the book was half finished those three were taking things almost entirely into their own hands and working the whole tale as a private venture of their own--a tale which they had nothing at all to do with, by rights. [5]
- I supposed he was going to bring you to book about old Lindau, somehow. [8]
- After the book was finished it was discovered that Susy had a dim model of Soldier Boy in her arms; I had forgotten all about that toy. [5]
- I said there was divorce, and she replied I'd done it with my eyes open, and had signed our names in the book of the hotel as Mr. and Mrs. Carnac Grier and divorce would not be possible. [11]
- The book, however, was distinguished in a special way: it contains Mark Twain's first utterance in print on the subject of copyright, a matter in which he never again lost interest. [5]
- Here a fire was crackling on the hearth, refreshments were laid out, and the major in command rose from his book to greet me. [9]
- Julie said this was charming "There is something so enchanting in the smile of melancholy," she said to Boris, repeating word for word a passage she had copied from a book. [2]
- The old man was beside himself: moved the chair on which he was sitting noisily backward and forward, made efforts to control himself and not become vehement, but almost always did become vehement, scolded, and sometimes flung the exercise book away. [2]
- Art to him was an unknown book, but he had the instinct, and he was quick to feel. [11]
- Now, Selamlik Pasha was an Egyptian, and is it not written in the Book of Egypt that no man without the most dangerous reason may refuse backsheesh? [11]
- In a book was a record of all the ascents which have ever been made, beginning with Nos. [5]
- I didn't know Warner had a book out. [5]
- The reader is warned that this first love-story will, in a few chapters, come to an end: and not to a happy end--otherwise there would be no book. [9]
- What a fellow wants in a book is to know where he is. [9]
- Paulette Dubois, the wanton woman, had just left his doorway secretly, yet there he was, instantly after, calmly reading a pious book! [11]
- All, except the very last one, were in the same hand, and they seemed to have formed a single book before they were torn asunder. [10]
- It was a very large book. [9]
- He was a very great soldier and wrote a book for beginners in the Latin. [5]
- It is the very book for you to publish; there is a fortune in it, and I can put you in communication with the author. [5]
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