Back of the molasses jug, just visible, were the tattered pages of a coverless book.

You read, don't youI mean English?" She nodded, but cast a look of undisguised contempt upon the two worn, coverless novels he held out to her.

I surveyed them both critically, but the one nearest to me having the netting arranged for entrance, I selected it, and setting the lamp upon the dresser, extinguished it, groped to the bed in darkness, and lay down upon the coverless sheet.

He pulled out the tattered, coverless volume.