Sentence examples for book of reference from inspiring English sources

By Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, July 27 , 1940P. 59 Gleanings from Tout Paris, a French book of reference which lists members of Paris Society and denotes the possessors of six types of transportation.

The appellants are the proprietors of a mercantile agency which publishes at intervals a copyrighted book of reference containing lists of merchants, manufacturers, and traders in the United States and the North American British possessions.

We doubt, however, whether Mr. Armistead was altogether wise in avoiding all books of reference, as he states himself to have done; a book of reference would have prevented the same mollusc from figuring as " Limnaeus peregra " and "Limnea" in consecutive paragraphs.

THIS work, which embodies the material used by the author as lecture notes at Coe College, Iowa, is intended not only as a text-book for undergraduates, but also as a book of reference which a research worker can read through in a few evenings and then put into immediate practice.

This volume will serve as a book of reference showing a panoramic view of the field and a preview of its future direction as well as a book of inspiration for those aiming to further advance its frontiers". Provided by publisher.

There were even such books of reference as the London Directory, the "Red" and "Blue" books, Whitaker's Almanac, the Army and Navy Lists, and it somehow gladdened my heart to see it, the Law List.

Probably the boldest claim was that of Alexander Aitchison, who said that his new Encyclopædia Perthensis (1796 1806) was intended to supersede the use of all other English books of reference.

The lawyer, with his books of reference before him, makes mistakes in the allegations of his writs and his bill of exceptions.

Then write a reference book of "Paradise Lost" references from popular books, films, and songs, citing the line from the modern piece and the original Milton to which it refers.

Not only is it an able companion for visitors, but it also works well off-site as a pocket-size book of eclectic reference.

Instead, the Book of Mormon references ways that God is obligated to behave lest he "cease to be God".