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  • _ -- Can any of your readers refer me to a museum containing a specimen of an ancient _table-book_?

    Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850 Various

  • His small standing, and time, hath made him a proficient only in boldness, out of which, and his table-book, he is furnished for a preacher.

    Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

  • Calvert looked over at Mr. Morris and saw him tear from his table-book a leaf upon which he had been writing and, with a bow, offer it to the

    Calvert of Strathore Carter Goodloe

  • He kept a table-book, in which he had written the characters of all the eminent men of the nation: he studied fortification, and understood the mint well.

    The Illustrated London Reading Book Various

  • [Monmouth] to London as a guard, with orders to stab him if there were any disorders on the road, showed me several charms that were tied about him when he was taken, and his table-book, which was full of astrological figures that nobody could understand; but he told my uncle that they had been given to him some years before in

    Notes and Queries, Number 13, January 26, 1850 Various

  • In sonnet 122 he finds weighty excuse for having given away the table-book which his friend had given to him.

    The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909

  • In the table-book of Robert Sydney, second Earl of Leyicester, written when

    The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909

  • In sonnet 122 he finds weighty excuse for having given away the table-book which his friend had given to him.

    The Man Shakespeare Frank Harris 1893

  • She took the table-book obediently and sat down with it, while Phyllis made an effort to get over the shock of surprise given her by Hetty's clever exhibition, and proceeded to attend to Miss Davis's correction of her French exercise.

    Hetty Gray Nobody's Bairn Rosa Mulholland 1881

  • In the Literal Contract, an entry in a ledger or table-book had the effect of clothing the Convention with the Obligation, and the same result followed, in the case of the

    Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Henry Sumner Maine 1855

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