Sentence examples for tome not from inspiring English sources

This is far from the average, glossy coffee-table tome, not least because anyone interested may actually be able to carry it around in their handbag – or even read it in the bath.

Don't allow that seductive 99p deceive you – with Leo Hollis's Cities Are Good for You you're definitely getting seventeen pounds' worth of book; £17, and possibly somewhere approaching 17lbs as well, because this is a hefty tome, not quite lavishly tooled enough for the coffee table, but nor entirely a comfortable proposition when lying abed.

Hand-bound in crimson French silk, the petite tome — not to be confused with the more lascivious "Guide des jolies femmes de Paris" recently written by a speechwriter in President Nicolas Sarkozy's administration — is a love letter to all those forgotten members of the world's oldest profession.

His latest tome, "How Not to Get Fat," is $17 at amazon.com.

The walking route to the summit of Pico de Sao Tome is not clear and must be done with a guide.

But there were other reasons that the tome might not have been exactly what Mr. Obama, a best-selling author, was expecting.

Compiled by the Institute for Public Policy Research IPPRR) and running to almost 300 pages, this tome is not so much a think-tank study as a Magna Carta for social democracy in the 21st century.

The prolix 378 pages of this tome leave, not a stone unturned in the day to day doings of Mrs Christie; eighty-six years of bric-a-brac, people incidents houses, places, bills and interminable contract and copyright deals; and yet, oddly, the old lady herself has slipped away, vanished like Miss Marples.

Darwin's famous tome is not properly entitled, The Origin of Species.

Dr. Leary hopes this comic memoir and self-help tome will not only change the world, but also sell enough copies to pay for the university educations of his two teenage children.

While unmistakably Tolkien, written throughout the professor's career, finally meticulously assembled by son Christopher Tolkien and published in 2007, this tome may not win over pedestrian hobbit aficionados, but the threads of Norse myth and Tolkien's own mythos, woven through this work, prove astounding -- and achingly poetic.