Sentence examples similar to a consignment of books from inspiring English sources
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.
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.
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).
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.
A consignment of artefacts was impounded in Newark, New Jersey.
The box was part of a consignment of Korean Air parts being shipped by Condor Air Transport of Stratford.
They're to steal a consignment of gold being carried by a Swiss cargo plane.
A consignment of canned mint juleps to the Mikado might even do the whole trick.
On Thursday, a consignment of Russian Yankhont anti-ship cruise missiles arrived in Syria.
He ransacks a room, steals a consignment of cocaine, paints their hair and faces as they sleep.
It came in on a consignment of logs from the US, where it had been killing elms since the 1930s.
