Sentence examples for piles of pages from inspiring English sources

As my husband said recently, addressing this family syndrome: "Am I really going to read 'Middlesex' again?" It's a sick relationship we have with these piles of pages between covers.

That's why you've never read "Fountain City," just as you've never read John Updike's "Willow," Junot Díaz's "Dark America" or Jennifer Egan's "Inland Souls" — all abandoned by their authors after years of toil and piles of pages.

"They just plopped the pile of pages in front of me," Mr. Beach recalled.

When we can't see the pile of pages growing on the left and shrinking on the right, the book is, apparently, less fixed for us.

Then when I write I take rip out the notebook pages and arrange them on the floor of my office, one pile of pages for each paragraph.

A compact pile of pages could be opened instantly to any point in the text, eliminating the cumbersome unrolling and rerolling, and facilitating the binding of many more leaves in a single book.

Even Egyptian hieroglyphics were commonly organised in vertical columns.The immediate ancestor of today's book is the codex, a pile of pages stitched together, which replaced rolled-up scrolls around the 4th century AD.

First, I took out my papers prepared in Moscow, and Margaret opened her ever-present purse to get quite a pile of pages that contained notes for the conversation.

He never should have kept that damning pile of pages so long, but somehow, as long as the original manuscript of the novel existed, he could tell himself that he had really only borrowed it from the dead author.

The 2510 also omits a single feature I consider key for this class of product: an automatic document feeder that lets you toss in a pile of pages, press a button and return when the fax or copy is done.

When you read on paper you can sense with your fingers a pile of pages on the left growing and shrinking on the right.