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1  It was like something in a book.
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2  We have all his poetry at home in a book.
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3  There was a book in the library about Holland.
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4  A thick book, opened at the frontispiece, lay before him on the wooden rest.
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5  The class must be doing the themes or perhaps Father Arnall was reading out of the book.
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6  He laid his book on the counter and passed out, his well-shod feet sounding flatly on the floor.
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7  He had learnt what little he knew of the laws of Latin verse from a ragged book written by a Portuguese priest.
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8  He had tried to spell out the headline for himself though he knew already what it was for it was the last of the book.
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9  Stephen, scarlet with shame, opened a book quickly with one weak hand and bent down upon it, his face close to the page.
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10  A thing like that had been done before by somebody in history, by some great person whose head was in the books of history.
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11  When he had written this title and drawn an ornamental line underneath he fell into a daydream and began to draw diagrams on the cover of the book.
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12  The book which he used for these visits was an old neglected book written by saint Alphonsus Liguori, with fading characters and sere foxpapered leaves.
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13  From time to time also he balked them by a sudden effort of the will, as by lifting them suddenly in the middle of an unfinished sentence and closing the book.
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14  While he prayed he knelt on his red handkerchief and read above his breath from a thumb blackened prayer book wherein catchwords were printed at the foot of every page.
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15  were written at the foot of the page, and, having hidden the book, he went into his mother's bedroom and gazed at his face for a long time in the mirror of her dressing-table.
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16  Aristotle's entire system of philosophy rests upon his book of psychology and that, I think, rests on his statement that the same attribute cannot at the same time and in the same connexion belong to and not belong to the same subject.
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17  There, by reason of the great number of the damned, the prisoners are heaped together in their awful prison, the walls of which are said to be four thousand miles thick: and the damned are so utterly bound and helpless that, as a blessed saint, saint Anselm, writes in his book on similitudes, they are not even able to remove from the eye a worm that gnaws it.
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