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Definition of Bookshelves
1. bookshelf [n] - See also: bookshelf
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bookshelves
Literary usage of Bookshelves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"... Along thy sprue«'st. bookshelves shine The works thou deemest most divine—
The " Art of Cookery," and mine, My Murray. Tours, Travels, Essays, too, ..."
2. Ecce Mundus: Industrial Ideals and the Book Beautifulby Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson by Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson (1902)
"... or at least having relegated them to an indefinite future, I took down at a
venture from my bookshelves a book of Ruskin's and opening at hazard read to ..."
3. Lyric Forms from France: Their History and Their Use by Helen Louise Cohen (1922)
"... BALLAD: BEFORE MY bookshelves Now that the swallow again we see, Now
daisy-burthened is every mead And burthened the air with bird-minstrelsy— What book ..."
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