"book" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Among these I found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: The Abbot, by Walter Scott, The Devout Communnicant and The Memoirs of Vidocq.
- There was a package of cigarettes on the side table, and a paper-covered book of one-act plays.
- The book the Honorable Freddie was reading was a small paper-covered book.
- Snubby undid his case and took out a paper-covered book.
- Aline took the paper-covered book.
- In her hands was a paper-covered book, with a coffee-stain across its cover and with as many dogs' ears as it had pages.
- He took a paper-covered book out of the pocket of his coat and opened it; then laid it down on the table and lit his pipe.
- A clock and a cheap brown teapot served as book-ends on a wardrobe to prop up a shabby collection - Carlyle's Heroes and Hero-Worship, lives of Napoleon and Cromwell, and numbers of little paper-covered books about what to do with Youth, Labour, Europe, God.
- Fergus had brought back three new books from his latest trip to Wilmington: a set of essays by Michel de Montaigne-those were in French, no good-a tattered copy of Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, and a very thin, paper-covered book by B. Franklin, The Means and Manner of Obtaining Virtue.
- There were books on tactics and military history, books on dynamics and ballistics and higher mathematics, mixed up with red paper-covered books filled with notes in a clear, rather ornamental hand.
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