Sentence examples for commonplace book from inspiring English sources

Drexel 4257, also known by an inscription on its first page, "John Gamble, his booke, amen 1659" is a music manuscript commonplace book.

It is a sort of digital commonplace book.

[It] became my constant companion: part diary, part appointment book, part commonplace book.

(In Thomas Jefferson's literary commonplace book, Milton appears more than any other poet).

They should jot down these sentences in their journals or in a commonplace book.

There has always been something of the commonplace book in blogs and tweets.

Come to think of it, maybe what I really need is … an actual commonplace book?

In 1962 Auden published a volume of criticism, The Dyer's Hand, and in 1970 a commonplace book, A Certain World.

One seemingly commonplace book on display, with no author or plot, may be the most moving item.

All of this may seem to come out of an environmental commonplace book, offering a familiar mainstream vision.

In 1999 our reviewer, Thomas Mallon, called this "part memoir, part commonplace book, part tour de force".