However Adrian wants more than dusty old books at the auction.

You always had your nose in some dusty old book.

"And you want to give up all this excitement, just to go back to that, and your dusty books?"

He walked away whistling, the dusty old book tucked beneath his arm.

He ran a finger down the script in a thick and dusty book.

He flashed a smile as if to say, these dusty old books are the keys to history.

Through the ground-floor window of one house she saw a room lined with dusty books.

It's a much more interesting way to study history than plodding through some dusty old book.

"I'm sorry I wasn't there to help you, but some of us had better things to do all day than to flip through dusty old books."

Others will tell you it's a dusty book filled with Latin terms that no one can pronounce.