Sentence examples for tattered book from inspiring English sources

Today was the day of her rage: she ranted and wept amid the ruins of her house, picking up a tattered book here, a record album there.

If you kicked the ground, you'd come up with scraps of clothing, a tattered book, a shoe.

He ran his fingers over a tattered book, "The Ecumenical Patriarchy in the Orthodox Church," now infused with a dank, charry scent that it will never lose.

Everyone in the train car continued to sit silently: a woman in a headscarf with a tired face; a girl holding a tattered book in her red, probably frostbitten hands; middle-aged men and women in sombre-colored, heavy coats.

But I am not the guy with the Labrador retriever and the tennis ball and the tattered book under his arm, who is wearing fleece and is kind of tan.

If you kicked the ground in some areas that had been flattened, a tattered book, a shred of clothing, the tip of a steel reinforcing rod were easily exposed.

Still, the enthusiasm it represents offers me hope that my niece will one day read those tattered books — and all the Spaceman Spiffs and Tracer Bullets and cardboard boxes they contain — to her grandchildren.

The poor are evident all around the fringes of the plaza, where an open-air barber works quickly near a rack of old used clothing and piles of tattered books for sale.

Kong's thatch-roofed home, no more than a large palate on stilts, consists only of a roof, four short walls and a plastic bag of tattered books which serve as decoration.

Our public schools are resegregating, and many of the 73percentt of black students and 78percentt of Hispanic students who still attend predominantly segregated schools continue to suffer with tattered books, missing supplies, crumbling school facilities and too many teachers with low expectations for them.

No other gift I have ever received has given me so much as that one, tattered, paperback book.