exercise-books

Woods found a slate that might do for a blackboard, but it wasn't necessary since everything could be written in her different exercise-books.

William Trevor | An Idyll in Winter 2011

Games impedimenta — hockey-sticks, boxing-gloves, a burst football, a pair of sweaty shorts turned inside out — lay all over the floor, and on the table there was a litter of dirty dishes and dog-eared exercise-books.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

Games impedimenta — hockey-sticks, boxing-gloves, a burst football, a pair of sweaty shorts turned inside out — lay all over the floor, and on the table there was a litter of dirty dishes and dog-eared exercise-books.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

A rustle followed, and an opening of desks; behind the lifted lids which momentarily screened the heads bent down to search for exercise-books, I heard tittering and whispers.

The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

There was a plate of oranges on the top of a pile of shiny exercise-books: a box that looked as if it contained biscuits.

The Years 2004

She had told me to let her know the exact title of it, and that evening I had sent her a little telegram, writing on its envelope the name, Gilberte Swann, which I had so often, traced in my exercise-books.

Swann's Way 2003

There on the floor lay in a confused heap, books, exercise-books, inkstand, and other articles with the table-cloth on the top, while from beneath them a dark stream of ink was flowing all across the floor.

Heidi 2000

Games impedimentahockey-sticks, boxing-gloves. a burst football, a pair of sweaty shorts turned inside outlay all over the floor, and on the table there was a litter of dirty dishes and dog-eared exercise-books.

Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949

Slates are not so much used in our schools as they were years ago, exercise-books being cheaper now.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

At length her genius asserted itself, and she entered into her destiny; thenceforth flowers bloomed for her out of exercise-books, and she could touch the notes which were sun-bursts, and those which were mosses beneath them.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various