Books [noun]

They will carry out the dictum of Carlyle that the modern university is a university of books.

Peter Elmsly, a partner of the celebrated Paul Valliant, and himself an importer of books and no mean critic and linguist, died.

People have not only ceased to purchase those old-fashioned things called books, but even to read them!

This is what the writers of serious books pompously call "the secret history of the whole matter."

He simply devoured books, studying every detail of construction, and learning a great deal as to style and effect.

Yet he succeeded in getting many to take the agency and these received orders and sent for the books.

Good place to lop about, y' know; a decent place to sit, and a few books and cards and that sort of thing.

Important orders for new books are now in course of execution, the volumes being due early in this year's session.

The picture books and the cinemas have familiarised them with every aspect of modern life.

His books were read in our homes, often aloud to the family circle by paterfamilias, and moved us to laughter or tears.