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For the last two weeks I have seldom stirred out of bed except for meals, reading-matter, or to visit the toilet and cough up chartreuse slime.
‘We Didn’t Start the Flame War’ superversive 2009
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Given his history of arduous travel, it's not surprising, perhaps, to learn that Mr. Foster's reading-matter on such journeys consists of other people's accounts of their extreme voyages -- the more horrific, the better.
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Presently the idea developed to establish something that would be of benefit to his neighbors, especially to those who did not have access to much reading-matter.
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"You told me you'd put the notice of my shoe-polish in with the reading-matter."
More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher
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The names of the students had proved interesting reading-matter, and the two girls had speculated as to the probable appearance of this one and that, and had even gone so far as to select the one whom they thought they would prefer among those mentioned.
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While this is as it should be, we believe that if parents would look well to the quality of reading-matter placed before their children better results would be obtained from the teachers 'efforts in this line.
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He stayed to witness the dedication of the Soldier's Library, founded by Mr. Fowle, who had seen the arrant want of reading-matter by our soldiers -- so few being illiterate.
The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams
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While this is as it should be, we believe that if parents would look well to the quality of reading-matter placed before their children better results would be obtained from the teachers 'efforts in this line.
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~THREE AND A QUARTER THOUSAND~ double-column octavo pages of reading-matter yearly, forming four large volumes.
The Nursery, No. 109, January, 1876, Vol. XIX. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers Various
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We have in preparation for coming numbers some admirable designs, illustrative of the choicest reading-matter in prose and verse.
The Nursery, No. 165. September, 1880, Vol. 28 A Monthly Magazine For Youngest Readers Various
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