Sentence example with the word 'bookstall'

bookstall

Definition n. a shop where books are sold

Last update: June 15, 2015


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Forty times, it is said, he read through the Metaphysics of Aristotle, till the words were imprinted on his memory; but their meaning was hopelessly obscure, until one day they found illumination from the little commentary by Farabi, which he bought at a bookstall for the small sum of three dirhems. So great was his joy at the discovery, thus made by help of a work from which he had expected only mystery, that he hastened to return thanks to God, and bestowed an alms upon the poor.   [Please select]

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You must go to Uttoxeter in my stead, and tend the bookstall in the market-place there.   [Please select]

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Browne was coming up the platform towards the bookstall, looking forlorn and sad.   [Please select]

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At last he began to pace up and down by the bookstall.   [Please select]

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I think this is most unfair to the boy at the bookstall.   [Please select]

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Ivery was at the bookstall buying an evening paper.   [Please select]

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'I was standing at a bookstall' Mr.   [Please select]

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"Had this old man no son," the people would say among themselves, "who might have taken his place at the bookstall, while the father kept his bed."   [Please select]

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On the very spot of ground, where the stranger now stood, some aged people remembered that old Michael Johnson had formerly kept his bookstall.   [Please select]

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