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Sentences starting with books

Books and libraries were scarce. [7]
Books are very well, but books do not cover the whole domain of esthetic human culture. [5]
Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man thinking; by men of talent, that is, who start wrong, who set out from accepted dogmas, not from their own sight of principle. [6]
Books brought the new current; and soon she had him moving almost unconsciously among old scenes, recalling old contests of ideas, and venturing on bold reproductions of past intellectual ideals. [11]
Books were much more precious than swords and silver-gilt bowls and second-best beds in those days, and when a departing person owned one he gave it a high place in his will. [5]
Books she had known from her earliest infancy: they had been piled around that bedroom over the roof. [9]
Books of travel, if they are expected to live, are peculiarly hard to write. [4]
Books are the go-betweens of humanity. [11]
Books are not buried with their owners, and the veriest book-miser that ever lived was probably doing far more for his successors than his more liberal neighbor who despised his learned or unlearned avarice. [3]
Books in handsome binding kept locked under plate-glass in showy dwarf bookcases are as important to stylish establishments as servants in livery; who sit with folded arms, are to stylish equipages. [6]

Sentences ending with books

A very interesting young man, the Deacon said, much given to the reading of pious books. [6]
I didn't know you'd written books. [9]
Don't I tell you it's in the books? [5]
Meanwhile he had written and published a number of books. [5]
There was another world opened to her--a world of books. [5]
They flood me with high-priced invitations to write for magazines and papers, and publishers besiege me to write books. [5]
He went out with a company from Hawkeye to the war, and was not wanting in courage, but he would have been a better soldier if he had been less engaged in contrivances for circumventing the enemy by strategy unknown to the books. [5]
The reader, too, will no doubt think it a very obvious manoeuvre, but some things are managed badly in life as well as in books. [9]
In this atmosphere, when we were prepared to take our ease, the talk was no longer of stocks, or railways, or schemes, but of books. [4]
A month later, when the benevolent physician lay in the death-throes of hydrophobia, he called his weeping friends about him, and said: "Beware of the books. [5]

Short sentences using books

I looked in the books. [4]
She has written several books. [5]
O my books, my books! [10]
Are all books lies? [5]
Would two books contain them? [5]
For books approved by her. [5]
S-said you liked books? [9]
Who review the books? [5]
What kind of books? [11]
It's heavy, lads--solid books. [2]

Sentences containing books two or more times

Brains and books were one thing, but the strong arm, the quick eye, and the deft lunge home with the sword or dagger were better; they were of a man's own skill, not the acquired skill of another's brains which books give. [11]
In the same way, our tables are full of books half-read and books we feel that we must read. [6]
What I wanted to say about books is this: that there are times in which every active mind feels itself above any and all human books. [6]
But you sell thousands of my moss-backed old books every year--the youngest of them being books that range from fifteen to twenty-seven years old, and the oldest reaching back to thirty-five and forty. [5]
Between these were rows of books,--attractive books in chased bindings, red and blue; books that appealed to be taken down and read. [9]
There are fifteen or twenty figures scattered here and there, with books, but they cannot keep their attention on their reading--they offer the books to others, but no one wishes to read, now. [5]
I read in one of your books that when Sydenham was asked by a student what books he should read, the great physician said, 'Read "Don Quixote. [6]
I doubt if on your side of town the, best books, the real fundamental and abstruse books, are so read and discussed, or the philosophy of life is so seriously considered, as in certain little circles of what you call the working-classes. [4]
A good deal older than Plato, you see, and much more experienced than my Lord Bacon and most of the world's teachers.--Old books, as you well know, are books of the world's youth, and new books are fruits of its age. [6]
There were few new books, and they were mostly novels; and it was borne in on him that not many of these annotated books belonged to the past three years. [11]

More example sentences with the word books in them

I don't want your book; my shelves are full of books now," though the reader may remember that it was Carlton himself who had given the frog story to the Saturday Press and had seen it become famous. [5]
Here is a young man writing to me from a Western college, and wants me to send him a list of the books which I think would be most useful to him. [6]
And how happy you ought to be with him!--a man who knows what is in books, and who has seen for himself, what is in men. [6]
What more have you heard concerning the first books of the Annales of Tacitus, said to have been discovered in the Corvey monastery? [10]
Moreover, certain men wrote some books at that time. [2]
She herself, in writing her books, was solicitous on this point. [14]
Go on and write; you can write good books yet, but you can never match this one. [5]
Suppose I did write eleven books, have you nothing to be grateful for? [5]
His ledger, take-it-altogether, would not show a balance on the right side; but perhaps the losses on his books will turn out to be credits in a world where accounts are kept on a different basis. [5]
A scholar who would not leave his garret and his books to take a place in a business house at a large salary. [5]
He said he would have me educated, and bought me books, and I tried to read them. [9]
Whoever upholds the word-monger who spouts forth books as the dolphin at my side does water, may do so. [10]
Old-fashioned bookcases lined with musty books filled the walls, except where a steel engraving of a legal light or a railroad map of the State was hung, and the Honourable Hilary sat in a Windsor chair at a mahogany table in the middle. [9]
There are minds with large ground floors, that can store an infinite amount of knowledge; some librarians, for instance, who know enough of books to help other people, without being able to make much other use of their knowledge, have intellects of this class. [6]
Besides being occupied with his estates and reading a great variety of books, Prince Andrew was at this time busy with a critical survey of our last two unfortunate campaigns, and with drawing up a proposal for a reform of the army rules and regulations. [2]
Mark Twain's contracts with Bliss for the publication of his books on the subscription plan had been made on a royalty basis, beginning with 5 per cent. [5]
In twenty-one years, with all my time at my free disposal I have written and completed only eleven books, whereas with half the labor that a journalist does I could have written sixty in that time. [5]
He roomed that winter with a rugged, self-educated Scotchman--a mechanic, but a man of books and philosophies, who left an impress on Mark Twain's mental life. [5]
I know you will like these books, ma'm, because I've read them myself and I know what they are. [5]
If the reader will call at the circulating library and mention my name, he will be furnished with books which will afford him the fullest information concerning Jaffa. [5]
And Nelson Langmaid, who had fallen into the habit of dropping into Hodder's rooms in the parish house on his way uptown for a chat about books, had been struck by the rector's friendship with the banker. [9]
In a little while we were speeding through the streets of Paris and delightfully recognizing certain names and places with which books had long ago made us familiar. [5]
Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber. [6]
For a little while every day, Mrs. Maturin read aloud, usually from books of poetry. [9]
The General's study, which was Hugh's now, was piled high with new and bulky books on cattle and cultivation of the soil. [9]
Seems to know what is going on, --reads books, old and new,--has many recent publications sent him, they tell me, but, what is more curious, keeps up with the everyday affairs of the world, too. [6]
You cannot think what a delight I feel in passing through its galleries, filled with old parchment-bound books. [4]
Four years at West Point, and plenty of books and schooling, will learn a man a good deal, I reckon, but it won't learn him the river. [5]
Both these books were written to present that side of life in Canada which is not wintry and forbidding. [11]
Usually the books were Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, the morals of which were not regarded as wholly exemplary. [5]
Above the books were rows of sketches--rows of sketches! [11]
In the parlour were many shelves filled with books. [5]
His own books were constantly pirated in Canada, and the rights of foreign authors were not respected in America. [5]
Yet if I were but allowed candles, or a lantern, or a torch, some books, paper, pencil, and tobacco, and the knowledge that I had not killed Juste Duvarney, I could abide the worst with some sort of calmness. [11]
Though twenty books were ascribed to me, I should own none. [14]
When the nuts were all gone, he stumbled upon some inviting books in a closet, among them one about the etiquette of the English court. [5]
In this cupboard were a few books, an old silver-handled pistol, and a packet. [11]
That is the way to find out what books he does n't want you to see, which of course are the ones you particularly wish to see. [6]
Chief among the waverers were those who had come to America with visions of a fortune, who had practised a repulsive thrift in order to acquire real estate, who carried in their pockets dog-eared bank books recording payments already made. [9]
The new residence was to afford me an opportunity to lead a lonely, quiet life with my mother and my books, which latter, however, were only to be used in moderation. [10]
One sweltering afternoon--it was the first day of July, 1830--he was at work over a set of tangled account books in his workroom, which looked westward over a stretch of vacant lots, when a conversation outside disturbed him. [5]
Shakespeare of Stratford was reared in a house which had no use for books, since its owners, his parents, were without education. [5]
The old Librarian was getting a miserly feeling about his books, as he called them. [6]
If the age was coarse in speech or specially affected in manner, the books followed the lead given by the demand; but, coarse or affected, they had the quality of art demanded by the best existing cultivation. [4]
So that Eliphalet was always polite to Ephum, and careful never to say anything in the darkey's presence against incompetent clerks or favorite customers, who, by the charity of the Colonel, remained on his books. [9]
The celebrated author was a little surprised, because in the books the young struggler had needed but one lift, apparently. [5]
Lying beside him was a leather bag, within which were odds and ends of food and some small books of legend and ritual. [11]
But philosophy--ah, there was a field where a man could always use knowledge got from books or sorted out of his own experiences! [11]
But, besides, there was a bookcase with an unusual number of books in it, and there was an open colonial writing-desk, claw-footed, brass-handled, and scutcheoned, with foreign periodicals--French and English--littering its leaf, and some pages of manuscript scattered among them. [8]
I have food, warmth, leisure, books, friends. [6]
A huge mahogany wardrobe occupied one corner; in another stood a pier glass, and in another, near the lounge, was a small bookcase filled with books. [9]
You are always wanting to know what he is looking for in his big books, so I plucked up courage to ask him, and now I know. [10]
It would be very difficult to find a really clever "situation" in Cooper's books, and still more difficult to find one of any kind which he has failed to render absurd by his handling of it. [5]
This is a very different Memphis from the one which the vanished and unremembered procession of foreign tourists used to put into their books long time ago. [5]
We gave them up without an effort at recovering them, and cursed the lying books that said horses would stay by their masters for protection and companionship in a distressful time like ours. [5]
On the way up town these adventurers bought books on engineering, and suits of India-rubber, which they supposed they would need in a new and probably damp country, and many other things which nobody ever needed anywhere. [5]
Mr. Engel picked up one of the books as it lay on the counter, and as he read the title his face betrayed a slight surprise. [9]
I would load up every important jail and saloon in America with de luxe editions of my books. [5]
He ain't painted up any exacter to the life in the books. [5]
I have had two religious books sent me by friends within a week or two. [6]
Even one or two purely Protestant books of missionary enterprise, found in a box in her dead mother's room, had had all the charms of poetry and adventure. [11]
A sale of twenty-five sets a day meant prosperity on paper, but unless capital could be raised from some other source to make and market those books through a period of months, perhaps even years, to come, it meant bankruptcy in reality. [5]
Considered among Mark Twain's books to-day, the collection of sketches does not seem especially important. [5]
After all the trouble, we could be certain of only one thing--the square-topped hill was the Acropolis, and the grand ruin that crowned it was the Parthenon, whose picture we knew in infancy in the school books. [5]
I would not trouble you, if I could find any person or books competent to enlighten me on some of these singular matters which have so excited me. [6]
Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. [5]
They are books to which it is impossible to place any period of termination. [5]
He understood how to unite work and pleasure; I, on the contrary, learned little on the wooden benches, for I rarely occupied them, and the dust of books certainly didn't spoil my lungs. [10]
Did he dare to turn and open those books which she had inspired,--the new philosophies, the historical criticisms which he had neglected and condemned, which he had flattered himself he could do without,--and read of the fruit of Knowledge? [9]
Pleasant it is to think that the retreating host of books is to give place to a still larger army of volumes, which have seen service under the eye of a great commander. [6]
Then he turned to the papers and parchments, to which the city clerk had just added several books and rolls. [10]
I assumed indifference to the matter, laying the packet down upon my couch, and saying to him, "You will convey my thanks to Mademoiselle Duvarney for these books, whose chief value lies in the honourable housing they have had. [11]
It led also to the composition of other books on the West, which were more or less mere pieces of book-making for the market. [4]
He went directly to the Baillieres, the principal and almost the only publishers of all the Homoeopathic books and journals in that city. [3]
They are obliged to study her books, and order their lives by them. [5]
Jest get him to shet up them books of his, and take hold of anybody's troubles, and you'll see how he 'll straighten 'em out. [6]
I was minded to seek her there, and went by the ante-chamber where the sick lady's writing-table and books stood, and which led to the sitting chamber. [10]
I dearly love to read books, and I never tire of reading yours; they always have a charm for me. [5]
Well, said I to myself, let us look at our three books that have undergone the last insult short of the trunkmaker's or the paper-mills, and see what they are. [6]
I was unable to meet this argument, and the result was that when I was away from her I too began to "thrash around" among the books in a vain search for a radical with a convincing and satisfying philosophy. [9]
I should like to make you a present of a few of the books we publish. [6]
He found himself, to his surprise, surveying with equanimity the pile of books in the corner which had led him to the conviction of the emptiness of the universe--but the universe was no longer empty! [9]
My grandfather took to his bed of a Saturday afternoon, and bade me go down to Mr. Aikman's, the bookseller, and fetch him the latest books and plays. [9]
Some one said to her in London, "You know, you and I, Miss Bronte, have both written naughty books! [14]
Do you want to go to doing different from what's in the books, and get things all muddled up? [5]
I am apt to forget how the hours pass when I have one of his books in my hand. [6]
I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. [5]
He directed him to account for it in his books as conscience-money, and he enjoyed the joke more than Conrad seemed to do when he was told where it came from. [8]
I was not tired, but I had no books on hand that needed finishing this year except one that was seven years old. [5]
I had little time or inclination for reading fiction; my days were busy ones, and my nights were spent with law books. [9]
John had got thus far in his studies, which were apparently arithmetic and geography, but were in reality the Arabian Nights, and other books of high and mighty adventure. [4]
First, he passed through the student stage, and became learned in the holy books. [5]
This was partly through his winning and gentle ways, but mainly through the amazing familiarity with my books which his conversation showed. [5]
St. Paul has three public libraries, and they contain, in the aggregate, some forty thousand books. [5]
I dragged through three chapters, losing flesh all the time, and then was honest enough to quit, and confess to myself that I haven't any romance literature appetite, as far as I can see, except for your books. [5]
Well, I have thought well of the books myself, but I think more of them now. [5]
Whatever may be thought of my books, they represent nothing except my own bent of mind, my own wilful expression of myself, and the setting forth of that which seized my imagination. [11]
You must have thought I asked you to tell me what sort of books I wanted--for I am apt to say things which I don't really mean, when I am absent minded. [5]
But the books, though few, were of a high quality; and because they were few they were read much, and their contents became an integral part of his intellectual equipment. [4]
Its banks, and those of the brook are respectably adorned with blooming oleanders, but the unutterable beauty of the spot will not throw a well-balanced man into convulsions, as the Syrian books of travel would lead one to suppose. [5]

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