William Caxton, England's first printer of books, padded his own translation of Aesop, in 1484, with a sampling of Poggio's jokes, thus creating the earliest jestbook in English.
But if he had won his case, Irving's theories — which he puts across sniggeringly in anti-Semitic company but more soberly in big books, padded with forests of footnotes and references to obscure Nazi archives — would have been given a boost of legitimacy.
Dollar stores are a good place to find games, books, activity pads, puzzle books and even CDs/DVDs on the cheap.
Notebooks is also known as accounting books, registers, receipt books, letter pads, memorandum, diaries, binders, folders, file covers, forms, stationery, paper, covers.
Precisely because these scenes are so depressingly similar, the book feels padded as well as slight.
Levitt is not a natural writer; his book is padded and mind-numbingly repetitious.
For my iPhone 5, I tried out the $70 Little Pocket Book, which Pad and Quill's president, Brian Holmes, says is the company's most popular item.
The whole book is padded with repetitions, nonevents, paragraphs full of sawdust, marginal details, purplish flights of fancy and not-too-quotable quotes.
And the player still has no stopwatch, alarm clock, volume limiter, calendar, address book, note pad or external-hard-drive mode.
The book is padded out with unnecessary "comic" sections – not just the foreword but a "midword" of email exchanges with her editor and an afterword from God. Paradoxically, it's in those parts where she is most self-consciously being funny that the book is least interesting and original.
He does digress from time to time, which can make the book seem padded; it's most egregious in his discussion of the Supreme Court, which features yet more of those reverent, breathless passages about marble columns, mahogany benches and outsize personalities that mar so much coverage of that institution.
