Examples
“I don't want what you call proofs -- though you'll want them badly if you mean to pursue your present line.”
Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House
“So Richard brought forward what he called the proofs of the very intimate relations which had subsisted between Alice and his father.”
“To give you an idea of what going over galleys or page proofs is like, here's the list of corrections I am sending my editor and her noble editorial assistant for the first five chapters of Chill:”
“You do believe in proofs even if not for Darwinism, do you not?”
“Print sellers hawking proofs from the annuals displayed their goods on London street corners; some sold freestanding portfolio supports to display prints in one's drawing room.”
“Gazette and The Athenaeum, one could purchase plain proofs of the book's illustrations without printed titles for two pounds, two shillings.”
“These were the earliest proofs from a given plate.”
“He had his proofs from the books, the books that had educated him beyond the Morse standard.”
“All that we call proofs are presumptions of different degrees of certainty.”
“Orleans to obtain proofs of her first husband's rascality, in order to be enabled to have her marriage with Daniel Clark made public, and while she was gone Clark became enamoured with a Miss Caton, and was engaged to marry her.”
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
waspiness, upraisers, strainers, sporangia, raspiness, prelatess, methanals, gaspiness, washings, uprisers, upraises, upraiser and 2373 more...
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the library
vellum, watermark, dustjacket, chapbook, bookplate, edition, inscribed, signed, haiku, ode, limerick, sonnet and 70 more...
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bookish
grimoire, bildungsroman, roman a clef, chapbook, picaresque, codicology, epistolary, colophon, manuscript, memoir, incunabulum, bibliomaniac and 47 more...
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