Sentence examples for broken books from inspiring English sources

Beneath a Murano-glass chandelier hanging from a falling ceiling, an office desk, stacked with broken books, has skidded into a corner.

As for the eponymous cemetery, it was there, among the crumbling, up-ended tombstones like the spines of broken books, that the Jewish conspiracy bent on world domination as described in the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion was supposedly hatched.

Worn, marked-up, stained, or broken books are in low demand and, if you're selling books to a store, will make the buyer look askance at your other books.

"If you do them and you get them wrong, you've got a broken book.

"Ever since I've been doing this, there have been people who break books," Hindman said.

Artists' books have the opposite impulse: to break books out of their standard form and propel them toward the sculptural.

Since dispersed pieces of manuscripts stand a better chance than complete books of surviving fires, floods, and war, breaking books actually prolongs their survival.

There also is not much pressure to break books into smaller pieces, in the way that people want to buy songs, not albums.

There is another, more practical reason to break books: medieval manuscripts are often worth far less than the sum of their parts.

Yet it is perfectly legal to break books no matter how complete or rare they are, and it does still happen, particularly in the online, after-auction market.

Category theory was employed in this manner by Eilenberg & Steenrod (1952), in an influential book on the foundations of algebraic topology, and by Cartan & Eilenberg (1956), in a ground breaking book on homological algebra.