book-shop

Too poor to afford a new book, go to a used book-shop where the wisdom of the ages is available at a discount price.

This government has set its face against reading 2010

Cathedral, and every book-shop, ordinary, and smoking-house in the churchyard poured out its stream of cavaliers and their followers, who mingling together in a dense tumultuous body, struggled, sword in hand, towards the spot.

Master Humphrey's Clock 2007

Cathedral, and every book-shop, ordinary, and smoking-house in the churchyard poured out its stream of cavaliers and their followers, who mingling together in a dense tumultuous body, struggled, sword in hand, towards the spot.

Master Humphrey's Clock 2007

There is a Saturnine philosopher, standing at the door of his book-shop, who, I fancy, has a pooh-pooh expression as the triumph passes.

Roundabout Papers 2006

He goes to the post-office, and the human race run on his errands; to the book-shop, and the human race read and write of all that happens, for him; to the court-house, and nations repair his wrongs.

Nature 2006

‘And one with a book-shop to boot,’ she said, glancing around the stacks and the assorted displays, running one hand along the polished wood shelves.

Temptation Douglas Kennedy 2006

‘And one with a book-shop to boot,’ she said, glancing around the stacks and the assorted displays, running one hand along the polished wood shelves.

Temptation Douglas Kennedy 2006

But he found respite from these troublesome humours in his work, in his lifelong study of natural science, in the society of those he loved, and in his daily walks, which now would carry him far into the country with some congenial friend, and now keep him dangling about the town from one old book-shop to another, and scraping romantic acquaintance with every dog that passed.

Memories and Portraits 2005

A pair of little, active brothers — Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building — had been debauched to play the part of publishers.

Memories and Portraits 2005

He bought half a dozen of them at a religious book-shop and till after midnight he read them and admired.

Babbit 2004