Initial records of expenditure and income are kept in day books.

I went overto the desk and got the day book.

We enter the visits into it from our day book which is here somewhere.

Duncan arrived in the afternoon to start a day book of excavation notes.

I looked up from the desk where I was writing in the day book.

I didn't want to interfere so I went back along the passage to the front office and sat down to write in the day book.

It all became suddenly clear; the entry in the day book, everything.

He climbed into the tower to write the incident up in the day book.

Later that night he made careful entries in his day book.

A week later the dread words leaped out at me from the open day book.