Sentence examples for rest a book from inspiring English sources

But now, with no lap to rest a book on, books became unwieldy.

And I hate it when people rest a book face down, so the spine ends up looking cracked like leather, words suffocated by a stained coffee table.

Mishra wrote a negative review in the LRB of Ferguson's Civilisation: The West and the Rest, a book that argues that the 500-year era of western ascendency is coming to a close and attempts to explain its rise in the first place with reference to six "functional complexes": property rights, competition, science, medicine, the consumer society and work ethic.

On her coffee table rests a book by Bono, while at her bedside are works by the radical American founding father Thomas Paine and Victorian novelist Charles Dickens.

Keep only the things that are essential for sleep and resting: a book, moisturizer, a photo, a glass of water.

But just like one needs to rest after a healthy bout of vigorous exercise, one needs to sometimes "rest" with a book that's fun and absorbing while not necessarily being much more than that.

In the middle of the bookcase behind his desk, above his empty chair, just where Kim's head would have rested, a single book looms out, cover first.

In "Higher," Bascomb's account of the race at the end of the nineteen-twenties to build the tallest building in the world, we get one wonderful origin myth and eureka moment: an engineer sees his wife resting a heavy book on the family birdcage and realizes that a lightweight girded structure can carry an immensely heavy load.

She died in the thirties, her own small reputation resting on a book about wolfhounds.

A few larger works — including "Coffin (Flag Box)," a padlocked wooden box resting on a book labelled "The Birth of a Nation" and emitting unhappy sounds of scratching, dragging, and bumping — reveal a more complex and rewarding side to the artist's wit.

In any case, the more literal words of the renowned physician Sir William Osler should alleviate any confusion: "The cold should not be treated with contempt, but followed by bed rest, a good book to read, no food".