773 Verbs to Use for the Word book

She read many books from the Sunday school library.

One day he writes a book.

I took up a book, but whilst my eye ran over the page, I understood but little what I read, and could not relish even that.

She opened the book she had been reading when her cousin entered and took from it a newspaper clipping.

" "Bring the book here," called Trendon.

It was in this shop that I inquired whether there was published a book on piracy in Cornwall.

A fourth boy buys seeds, plants them, and raises a tiny garden which keeps him in beans for a whole season, The fifth boy buys a book which starts him on the career of an educated man: he becomes an inventor and a man of means.

The room which had been her father's and the library which held his books.

" There was a moment's silence; then Thurston rose from his chair, and closing his book flung it down with a bang upon the table.

"It's Sunday, you know," says the Colonel to the Prince, laying open his book, "and we were just going to have church.

" Tim Murnane, Sporting Editor Boston Globe:"You have given to the world a book of inestimable value, a classic in American history; a book that should be highly prized in every home library in the country.

Boys, I know, pay little attention to the conventionalities, and are seldom found consulting books on etiquette; but those who have been well brought up, and accustomed at home to an air of refinement, are quick to detect ill-breeding and bad manners in those older than themselves, and who "ought to know better."

We send school-books and machinery to China; she sends us tea, matting, and bamboo.

I've got a book in my trunk this minute on military tactics.

For some time I tried to read; but at last finding it impossible I carried my book down to the kitchen where a large fire was burning, and sat there.

" It is an appropriate time to produce a book on English schools for little children, now that Nursery Schools have been specially selected for notice and encouragement by an enlightened Minister for Education.

" "Have you ever kept books before?

Their expectations were raised by exaggerated reports of his having married money; and by a curious pertinacity of pride he still declined, even when he had to sell his books, to accept advances from his publisher.

Smith (who had forgetfully left his pocket-book on the piano, last night.)

Thereupon I picked up my book, and crept to the door to listen.

Suddenly he checked, cast back, and threw the book wide open.

Once, indeed, in a friend's house I saw my book upon the table, but I suspect that it had been dusted and laid out for my coming.

Of the English annotations, which in all the editions, from 1644, accompany the book, the author is unknown.

'She's a young artist, and I lent her some books of old prints she wanted.

He was trained by her to love books and study, to which, however, he seems to have had a natural and inherited inclination.

773 Verbs to Use for the Word  book