Shelves

Examples

• The scene is the Vestry-room of St James's Church, with a number of leathery old registers on shelves, that might be bound in Lady Tippinses. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and not truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• There were a couple of shelves, with a few plates and cups and saucers; and a pair of stage shoes and a couple of foils hung beneath them. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• There were light boxes on shelves in the counting-house, and strings of mock beads hanging up. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This is a large oven containing shelves. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Seeds which remain on our shelves do not germinate, but those which are planted in the soil do; so it is with the yeast plants. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Around the room, on shelves, are hundreds of bottles each containing a small quantity of nickel hydrate made in as many different ways, each labelled correspondingly. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• If their house was shabby, it was exquisitely kept; if there were good books on the shelves there were also good dishes on the table. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He keeps them on shelves over his head, and will weigh them all. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Beth was there, laying the snowy piles smoothly on the shelves and exulting over the goodly array. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Rush-bottomed arm-chairs faced each other across the tiled hearth, and rows of Delft plates stood on shelves against the walls. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The book-shelves did not afford much resource. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• A table and some shelves were covered with manuscript papers and with worn pens and a medley of such tokens. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And your books too, turning his eyes round the room, mounting up, on their shelves, by hundreds! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Range the books upon the shelves, Wegg. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He returned with a large book, one of the logbooks which formed a line upon the shelves. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• At eighteen he read fluently and understood nearly all he read in the many and varied volumes on the shelves. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The remaining shelves of the first gallery are filled with current numbers (and some back numbers) of the numerous periodicals to which Edison subscribes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There were still flowers on the shelves,--all white, delicate and fragrant, with graceful, drooping leaves. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He had raised the candle at arm's length towards one of the dark shelves, and Mr Wegg had turned to look, when he broke off. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She had again addressed herself to the shelves, but her eyes now swept them inattentively, and he saw that she was preoccupied with a new idea. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• These have hanging upon them large sets of shelves, upon which the cores are placed for baking. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• These were arranged carefully on shelves and all labelled Poison, so that no one else would handle or disturb them. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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