Sentence examples for Consignment of books from inspiring English sources

Since my student days in Canterbury in the late 1980s, Russell Hoban's novel Riddley Walker had been "revealed" to me a number of times, and one morning at the beginning of January the librarian telephoned to say a new consignment of books had arrived for me.

The background emotional atmosphere of a literary festival swings between the euphoria that follows a successful event and the suppressed panic of a thousand disasters in waiting: an author stuck in traffic, a missing consignment of books; an ailing sound system; a furious punter; and that most grave of prospects, a wine drought in the green room.

One of the few test printings of the poster was found in a consignment of secondhand books bought at auction by Barter Books in Alnwick, Northumberland, which then created the first reproductions.

A few days before it was to appear, a store in Auxerre re ceived a consignment of the book and the owner would have innocently placed it on sale except that he was not sure of the price (27.50 francs or $4.95).

Another quality consignment of delicious Scandipop.

Earlier orders include an official consignment of military vehicles.

The Hales sent the first consignment of aoogs and now are ready to send a second consignment.

The original book covers a lot of international themes as well as themes related to being Muslim and being a part of the large consignment of Indians packed off to infiltrate different parts of the world.

A consignment of artefacts was impounded in Newark, New Jersey.

Ms Diep's Roller arrived two months after the first consignment of Porsches landed in Vietnam.

Although each individual consignment of data is tiny, they add up.