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- Let her footstep, as she comes and goes, in these pages, be like that other footstep to whose airy fall your own heart once beat time. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Yes, he continued, after some turning over of pages, he was paid last on May 20th. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Recently one of the writers had occasion to present to him a long typewritten document of upward of thirty pages for his approval. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Who knows but I may have filled all these weary long pages of paper for nothing? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- There are sixty-three pages, and some patient monk has spent months, aye, perhaps years, in making it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Many magazines print two colors for covers and inside pages, instead of full four-color printings. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Of the eight volumes already issued, each containing about 350 closely printed pages for half-a-crown, nearly 170,000 copies have been sold within a period of less than three years. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- There are many hundred pages here. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Issues of a magazine of thirty-two, forty-eight, or even more pages, are produced in this manner. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- As for any further particulars relating to the author, the reader will receive satisfaction from the first pages of the book. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Without a moment's hesitation I told him the truth, as unreservedly as I have told it in these pages. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Many readers may have wondered why that question has not figured in these pages. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Another heading was Argentine, another Costa Rica, and another San Paulo, each with pages of signs and figures after it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Reference has already been made to the callers upon Edison; and to give simply the names of persons of distinction would fill many pages of this record. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Shirley turned the closely-written pages and said nothing. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- As she turned the pages rich in dainty devices with very pardonable pride, her eye fell upon one verse that made her stop and think. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- An insistently expressed desire on the part of the public for a definitive biography of Edison was the reason for the following pages. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I am glad to be so when my pages are turned by so fair a hand. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation methods and addresses. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was only two hundred pages long and he doubted if two thousand people had ever read it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The letters, when once set up, are cast in plates of entire pages, so that they can be kept for use whenever they are wanted. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Do you know--I reckon I'm as much as four thousand pages behind hand. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And I hope to do, and mean to do, the same down to the last words of these pages, which I see now not so very far before me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A few words as to the domestic and personal side of Edison's life, to which many incidental references have already been made in these pages. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was a letter of two pages, and she immediately looked at the signature. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- If I wanted other authorities for Jarndyce and Jarndyce, I could rain them on these pages, to the shame of--a parsimonious public. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- From the first pages of history we find that the reaping hook or sickle is the earliest tool for harvesting grain of which we have record. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I cannot describe it, of course--it would require a good many pages to do that. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I have to thank these pages for awakening the finest sensibilities in my nature--nothing more. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The note-books contain hundreds of pages showing that a great many thousands of experiments were tried and passed upon. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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