Sentence examples for paw book from inspiring English sources

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That's a Monkey's Paw book.

It's hard to describe or quantify, but I know a Monkey's Paw book when I see one — a book-object that possesses a certain magnetism".

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But few of Fowler's books have prestige or traditional market value; the Monkey's Paw books are rarities, but almost none qualify as "rare books," or command rare-book prices.

At The Monkey's Paw used-book store in Toronto, a new tool for unloading unpopular stock: the book vending machine.

He also held in his paws a book of gum leaves".

I used to sit on the floor by my bookshelf and paw through books before I could actually read them.

But, when I was writing The Outlaw Varjak Paw, the second book, I did have to do a lot of research at that point, and I read a lot of books about cat behaviour, and body language, that research went into the second book much much more.

Some years ago, the movie writer and award-winning children's novelist SF Said was telling me about a stalled proposal to make a screen version of his book Varjak Paw, all about a kitten who survives on the mean city streets by using an occult form of feline martial arts.

At least the new psychologists have not explored this dream book nor pawed over the gentle, shrinking celibate who wrote it".

It was tucked into the back of Monkey's Paw, a small rare books shop in Toronto that displayed a collection including, when I browsed there last May, a 1965 shopping directory of India, a pictorial history of the carousel, a volume of "gesture poems" and a 1955 booklet of cake recipes made with the "new Kraft Oil Method".

The New Yorker, September 16, 1939 P. 17 A lady spent half an hour pawing through the books in a Womrath's store.

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