Bookcase
['bʊkkeɪs] or ['bʊkkes]
Definition
(n.) A case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with glazed doors.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see a bookcase in your dreams, signifies that you will associate knowledge with your work and pleasure. Empty bookcases, imply that you will be put out because of lack of means or facility for work.
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Examples
- Caroline, who, mounted on a chair, had been rummaging the bookcase, returned with a book. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It contained a bookcase: I soon possessed myself of a volume, taking care that it should be one stored with pictures. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I therefore smoked a great number of those excellent cigarettes, and I dropped the ash all over the space in front of the suspected bookcase. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I observed that books were piled on the floor at all other points, but that one bookcase was left clear. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I poked it out, and it ran under the bookcase. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- A light bookcase contained duodecimo volumes of polite literature in calf, completing the furniture. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She now occupied herself at the bookcase for nearly an hour; taking down volume after volume, and renewing her acquaintance with each. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She is there, said Holmes, and he pointed to a high bookcase in the corner of the room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Opposite was a large bookcase, with a marble bust of Athene on the top. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- At the same instant the bookcase at which Holmes pointed swung round upon a hinge, and a woman rushed out into the room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Cupboards and bookcases lined the walls. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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