Sentence examples for Parcel of books from inspiring English sources

It occurs when Truffaut receives a parcel of books, which he eagerly cuts open and tosses them one by one on to the table in front of him.

Why was I thrilled when Truffaut, as the director in his La Nuit américaine, eagerly tears open a parcel of books on the cinema, one of which is a symposium on Godard containing my 1965 essay on Une Femme mariée?

On the eve of World War I, one collection of "Library Jokes and Jottings" favored the first hypothesis, imagining a day in the life of a late-20th-century household as follows: "There was a knock at the front door, and the young people slid up the moving stairway, anticipating the parcel of books delivered each morning by the public library aeroplane service.

Periodically parcels of books descend by pulley from on high, as part of an elaborate — overly elaborate — installation by Ann Hamilton.

Before leaving Kiev, my family and I had spent months packing and shipping parcels of books we owned to a relative in New York, to be kept there until our arrival.

The letter, dated 9 July and recently seen by the Guardian, was a response to a parcel of children's books sent by Pardi to the pontiff in June.

Afterwards, when Polly returns to her mother's home, she and Tom remain friends; they write to each other and invent stories together and, every so often, he sends her parcels of battered, transformative books.

Consider his book's title, which refers to an unincorporated parcel of the Mojave.

We learnt this week that for a modest sum it will become possible to book a corner on a space rocket for a little parcel of one's own.

There is almost certainly another book of material based on the extensive photojournalism that was part and parcel of the first half of Jane's career, from the Greenham Common evictions to the Iranian embassy siege of 1980.

3. A commonplace book of verses, stories, characters, letters, etc. etc. : with some particular memoirs of a certain parcel of people, 1740-.