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Example sentences for "bibliomaniacs"

Lexicographically close words:
bibliography; bibliolatry; bibliomania; bibliomaniac; bibliomaniacal; bibliophile; bibliophiles; bibliopolic; bibliothecam; bibliothecarum
  1. Dear as their pagan books were to the monkish collectors, it was upon their Bibles, their psalters, and their other religious books that these mediaeval bibliomaniacs expended their choicest art and their most loving care.

  2. The Duke of Roxburghe's sale in 1812 was a great event, forming, as it did, an epoch in the history of book collecting, and the widespread fervour of bibliomaniacs may be dated from that period.

  3. Thy name will live long among scholars in general, and in the bosoms of virtuous and learned bibliomaniacs thy memory shall ever be enshrined!

  4. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.

  5. I allude to William of Malmsbury, one of the most enthusiastic bibliomaniacs of his age.

  6. Indeed, the early bibliomaniacs usually flocked to these book marts to rummage over the stalls, and to collect their choice volumes.

  7. Having read this passage, I think my readers will admit that William of Malmsbury well deserves a place among the bibliomaniacs of the middle ages.

  8. In taking leave of Durham library, need I say that the bibliomaniacs who flourished there in the olden time, not only collected their books with so much industry, but knew well how to use them too.

  9. I now proceed to notice some of the English monastic libraries of the middle ages, and by early records and old manuscripts inquire into their extent, and revel for a time among the bibliomaniacs of the cloisters.

  10. Bibliomaniacs have not been remarkable for their memory or punctuality, and in the early times the borrower was often forgetful to return the volume within the specified time.

  11. The bibliomaniacs claim him for their scribe and poet, the defender of their faith, the high-priest of their craft.

  12. We read so much in the papers nowadays of the extravagant sums paid for rare books by our modern millionaire bibliomaniacs that one is apt to become somewhat panic-stricken upon experiencing the first symptoms of the bibliomania.


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