Sentence examples for down the shelf from inspiring English sources

Quiet Ned, a schoolteacher, has been "failed" by Dublin: "He no longer knew why he had come to the city, but it was not for the sake of the bed-sitting room in Rathmines, the oblong of dusty garden outside the window, the trams clanging up and down, the shelf full of second-hand books, or the occasional visit to the pictures".

Now that your bed is clean, ask parents if they can help you put your bed in different position, you can put the stuff on your shelves on it, then wipe down the shelf and items and place back.

Several old lags defied the relentless book-a-year pressure of the market to remain fresh and inventive a long way down the shelf.

Robinson made her first attempt at Moby-Dick at the age of nine - people mocked her for carting it around and she finished it to spite them - and then "read my way down the shelf in the library".

Looking at the cover for U.S.Avengers #1 it's easy to roll one's eyes and move on down the shelf.

But for now, neither of us can escape the reality that food, like everything else we buy, is designed to be cheap to make, to last forever and to taste better than the next product down the shelf.

She hid a Murphy bed behind a row of bookshelves, but instead of folding down, the shelves pivot like a piece of scenery, creating a sleeping alcove in the open loft.

To keep this area crumb-free, Hammersley completely cleans it seasonally, pulling everything out, wiping down the shelves and mopping the floors.

Dust and wipe down the shelves.

"Oh, that," he said, taking it down off the shelf.

Now, Jack Straw took the Morgan report down from the shelf.