Sentence examples for dustcover from inspiring English sources

Anthony Burgess, quoted on the dustcover of Foucault's Pendulum, stresses 'it's learning - real and bogus - its concern with books talking to books, its elements of self-mockery, its semiological obsession,' but this only scratches the surface of the novel.

The photograph he has chosen for the back of the dustcover is not of Campbell addressing his party conference but of Ming the athlete winning the 220 yards championship at White City in 1964.

Ms. Ahmed knows too that words are dust, but in them she found her 21st-century self, saved herself, as she writes in "Dustcover," "I let the words bear down and burn".

Secrest cites one in which a landlord's wife uses Modigliani's abandoned canvases as dustcovers.

Even before the first words are spoken, Hedda prowls around the crepuscular gloom like an infantile termagant throwing a moody; she kicks over chairs, yanks dustcovers off furniture, sweeps bouquets of flowers onto the floor.

Each chapter is illustrated with reproductions of the books' original dustcovers, and of pages from Woolf's notebooks, manuscripts or corrected typescripts.

Then, in the furniture workshop, they found the final pieces: plastic dustcovers, paint, and tape, which they stored in boxes labelled "Office Supplies".