books

• Every item of the books was accurate; every halfpenny of receipts accounted for. —  To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work
• I know there's a servants' hall like in English books, so I suppose they have a lot. —  Elsie Marley, Honey
• At the least, he who regards not the welfare of his books is an accessory before the fact of their destruction. —  The Book-Hunter at Home
• He glories in the fact that his books are his servants rather than his companions, and he affects to despise and laugh at the sentimental relation which others have established with their books. —  Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs
• In the course of the examination both Molinos and Petrucci acquitted themselves so well, that their books were again approved, and the answers which the Jesuits had written were censured as scandalous Petrucci's conduct on this occasion was so highly approved, that it not only raised the credit of the cause, but his own emolument; for he was soon after made bishop of Jesis, which was a new declaration made by the pope in their favour. —  Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs

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