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When not dancing the watchful Baron took her through the drawing-rooms and picture-galleries adjoining, which to-night were thrown open like the rest of the house; and there, ensconcing her in some curtained nook, he drew her attention to scrap-books, prints, and albums, and left her to amuse herself with turning them over till the dance in which she was practised should again be called.
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Everything was regal and impressive, the kind of background against which American tourists would take pictures of their European tours to later paste in scrap-books.
Black Friday Patterson, James 1986
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Everything was regal and impressive, the kind of background against which American tourists would take pictures of their European tours to later paste in scrap-books.
Black Friday Patterson, James 1986
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There upon a shelf was the row of formidable scrap-books and books of reference which many of our fellow-citizens would have been so glad to burn.
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Stack them neatly in a big cardboard box, so that we can send them to Aunt Lucy - she makes scrap-books of them for children in hospital.
The Rat-A-Tat Mystery Blyton, Enid 1966
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But as we children grew up, leaving home in turn, so her idiosyncrasies spread; her plant-pots and newspapers, muddles and scrap-books extended further throughout the house.
Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959
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Volumes of autographs, great scrap-books filled with prints, tickets, invitations, ballads, let us into the visible and invisible of the reign of Charles II.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various
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He had a fondness for newspaper clippings, and had trunks of them, sorted into bundles or pasted in scrap-books.
The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter
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William C--, the little fellow of four years old, whose mother died in India, and the father on his return sank in a London hospital, leaving little Willie friendless, was here with a lovely bunch of hot-house flowers ready to present to Miss Macpherson, and to receive from her one of the beautifully illustrated scrap-books made by little English children.
God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada Clara M. S. Lowe
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The President announced that he had been told of a little girl who had to lie on her back for a year on account of some spinal trouble, and who had almost nothing to amuse her, so if anyone had scrap-books or toys and would send them to her it would be helping.
The Story of the Big Front Door Mary Finley Leonard
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