Sentence examples for tome of from inspiring English sources

The phrase 'tome of' is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe a large, impressive, or extensive book, usually one full of facts or stories. For example: "I was amazed to see the huge tome of knowledge he had collected on the subject."

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It would make for a tortuous tome of measurement politics.

This small tome of esoteric promise used to be stacked by the philosophy shelves.

It was also the revolutionary tome of choice for every western Marxist-Leninist hipster on university campuses.

Coincidentally, I then invested in a four-and-a-half-pound tome of recipes that I could prepare for him.

In front of me sit a pair of skull-capped gentlemen who share an oversized tome of the Talmud.

This comes from a fearsome tome of 1970s cooking that everyone in my family has: 1000 Freezer Recipes.

WINE LIST -- A tome of more than 80 still wines, including nine big Brunellos (lowest price $65).

Shortly thereafter we had the tome of Tone himself, whose knifing affected to come more in sorrow than in anger.

History books rarely cover it (one recent weighty tome of British political history since the second world war mentions it precisely once).

Time, perhaps, for philosophers to put away their copies of Kant and pull a dusty tome of Darwin off the bookshelf.

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