Sentence examples for book penny from inspiring English sources

It's like everything I've been dreaming of ever since envying that computer book Penny in Inspector Gadget used for pretty much everything except for taking a shit.

Those who created comic books, penny arcades and rock'n'roll have been seen as sinister figures bent on seducing children into becoming juvenile delinquents.

She matched Barnes & Noble's discounts on hardcover books penny for penny; she started a book club giving members discounts on purchases; and she took steps to make the store more attractive: down came the back wall and from the dust rose a cafe and outdoor garden.

Those endless summer days were filled with ice cream, comic books and penny candies, since my grandparents owned the corner ice cream parlor in town, a central meeting place for Woodbine's kids of all ages.

Fawkes subsequently appeared as "essentially an action hero" in children's books and penny dreadfuls such as The Boyhood Days of Guy Fawkes; or, The Conspirators of Old London, published in about 1905.

"Even as a child I would go to rummage sales or church bazaars and pick out books for pennies, for a quarter.

Silcoff's lament over the rise of "books for a penny on eBay or books by the pound from stores like Chicago's Market Fresh" overlooks the fact that decorators have long offered books by the yard.

A "penny book" is something of a misnomer.

You could buy a paper-cover book for a penny in Australia.

Last March, four months after it was listed, I bought the book for a penny, and Books Squared shipped it to my apartment in Toronto.

"All told," Mike Ward concedes, "we only make a few cents on a penny book sale like that".