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Example sentences for "library"

Lexicographically close words:
librarian; librarians; librarianship; libraries; librarum; libras; libration; libratory; libre; libres
  1. A gallery of pictures was for him what a well-stored library is to a literary student, who takes from the shelves the author best supplying the intellectual food needed.

  2. The view into this corner from the Market Place is very picturesque, but it was better before the adjoining public library was built, a few years ago.

  3. Little belief, either, can be given to the panelled room in Billesley Hall, said to have been a library in Shakespeare’s youth, in which he was allowed to study.

  4. Footnote 66: The catalogue of this library exists in the inventory of the Archduchess' possessions.

  5. V We know that Dürer stopped on at Venice into the year 1507, by a note which he made in a copy of Euclid, now in the library at Wolfenbüttel.

  6. Book of Hours' in the Vienna library is his work.

  7. Footnote 56: This drawing from Dürer's sketch-book is in the Court Library at Vienna (see pl.

  8. The block is in the Court Library at Vienna.

  9. In 1752 he was elected to the care of a public library in Edinburgh, and began in this same year his famous history of England.

  10. It is a library in itself, where every topic is treated, and where information can be gleaned which will enable a student, if he is so disposed, to consult other authorities, thus affording him an invaluable key to knowledge.

  11. It was not like the library at Althorpe--a collection for a nation to be proud of.

  12. Not a mortal in the crowded library this evening thought of looking at the books.

  13. The library was one of the finest rooms at Southminster.

  14. On certain mornings in the week--no need to specify them--I enter my library and give myself up to literary composition.

  15. To him in no small measure is due its acknowledged success as a working library which has won the praise of all practical librarians throughout the country.

  16. Jerome, '84, of Capri, Italy, and the musical library presented by Frederick and Frederick K.

  17. Bowker, the editor of The Library Journal, as the principal feature of the programme.

  18. The history of the University Library has been closely associated, as is only natural, with the growth of the Literary College, and it is proper to include a word about the Library in this place.

  19. Russell, and the classical library of Professor Elisha Jones, '59.

  20. Demmon, who was for thirty-seven years a member of the Library Committee.

  21. The expense incurred in establishing the branches, the purchases for the library and mineral collections, and the erection of the buildings practically exhausted it.

  22. The Library now occupies a large room at the south end of the second floor of the present Law Building.

  23. A large library and adjoining study is also situated on the first floor.

  24. My father urged that he should be allowed to receive Lord Edam's instructions concerning the documents, but the physicians would not disturb him, and we all gathered in the library to wait until he should awake of his own accord.

  25. Since I have been a member of Parliament I have never seen him in the library without a shilling shocker in his hands.

  26. As I was in the tent during so many summers, and almost constantly in my husband’s library in our winter quarters, I naturally learned something of what was transpiring.

  27. I became so accustomed to this quiet life in the library with my husband that I rarely went out.

  28. Still, though they had a band and a good library belonging to the regiment, the thought of being walled in with snow, and completely isolated for eight months of the year, made me shudder.

  29. A library without this work is deficient.

  30. Mr. Daly was reading in the library that afternoon, when Violet came running in as if in haste, a flush of excitement on her fair face.

  31. Vi was glad to find her grandpa alone in the library when she came down again.

  32. A dome is a dome, and, in regard to hieroglyphical figures, in the books in my library you have seen many pictures of those found on this continent.

  33. As you may imagine, Doctor, I have not had a large library from which to choose.

  34. Now, my dear, I am going down to the library to look at some papers connected with one of my cases, and shall probably be busy over them until the call to dinner.

  35. They had a chat together in the library at Woodburn.

  36. There was a very good library in the house, and we both like old books, so we enjoyed that.

  37. Camden has made a certain amend in putting Walt into the gay mosaic that adorns the portico of the new public library in Cooper Park.

  38. I shall continue to be pleasant to insurance agents, from sheer lack of manhood; and to keep library books out over the date and so incur a fine.

  39. One of those little green and gold volumes in the Oxford Library of Prose and Poetry.

  40. But I knew the only library where I would have any chance of finding Kenko would be the big pile at Fifth avenue and Forty-second street, and I could not bear the thought of having to read that book without smoking.

  41. The tiny library had been Laurie's pet scheme, and not only had his grandfather eagerly carried out the boy's own plans but he had proudly ordered the lad's name to be chiselled across the front of the building.

  42. It's on the chair in my room or else on the library table.

  43. Rolls of blue prints littered office and library table and cluttered the bureaus, chairs, and even the pockets of the elder men of each household.

  44. Finally I found myself obliged to yield to the evidence, and to affirm that I had really before my eyes the Fairy, the very same Fairy I had been dreaming of in the library a few evenings before.

  45. She came into the library with an armful of wood to make a little fire-- "une flambe," she said.

  46. In fact, some one had slipped into the library after her.

  47. I then decided, instead of going to my own, to return to the library and continue my examination of the manuscripts.

  48. But I took good care not to tell her that I had caught a cold from going to sleep in the library at night with the window open; for the good woman would have been as unsparing in her remonstrances to me as parliaments to kings.

  49. I have in my library a Mably and a Raynal, which he annotated with his own hand from beginning to end.

  50. McDonald had told me before he went to bed to make sure the last thing that the library fire was all right.

  51. I shall be at the other end of the hall just within the library door.

  52. Garth, however, when they had left, went to the library on the lower floor and telephoned headquarters.

  53. I'll get Alsop and his crew out of the library and where their precious skins will be safe.

  54. He must have seen you close the door when you went in the library to warn Alsop and the others, because from my hiding place I saw him get up, and, with no appearance of an injured man, sneak along the wall to the stairs.

  55. When I crept up to the library window I thought I saw you.

  56. Through the open door of a library Garth saw five men in evening clothes gathered about a table which was littered with papers.

  57. Yet he had seen no one pass the dim frame of the library doorway--nothing white.

  58. The king's library looks like business, for its volumes seemed to be for use rather than ornament.

  59. For weeks the young gentlemen on board the ship had been talking of Norway, and reading up all the books in the library relating to the country and its people.

  60. When I see a young gentleman use the library as freely as you do, I am always tolerably confident that he will attain a high rank.

  61. A Library of Travel and Adventure in Foreign Lands.

  62. A library which orders me to write and discuss forty pages of prose matter!

  63. I have put one of the shelves of my library in order, and am keeping for you the Lettres de Madame de Sevigne, in twelve volumes, and a small Shakespeare.

  64. I have just completed a lengthy report on the Library of Paris.

  65. Why go to a library school at all when, after all, you may accept the headship of a grammar-school on graduation, or even decide to travel for a hardware house?

  66. The mechanic, as formerly the scholar, must approach the library with a calculated expectation.

  67. It is our knowledge of them, a knowledge that this is a part of the province of library work, that makes for recent activity.

  68. At the close of the session the pupils, many of them, become patrons of the library 'for good.

  69. They are not commonly called for but they form a tie between the library and the scientific men and students over the state.

  70. No institution is without a library though not all are organized or well selected or large enough for the needs of the institution.

  71. No, it keeps us busy at the library to get material out fast enough, even though we had been previously informed by the teacher that the material would be wanted.

  72. No committee of the American Library Association has ever had the joy of working out a program of library extension from the great city systems to rural readers.

  73. With open mind and modest, may we attempt a statement of "library pedagogy" to parallel current educational practice?

  74. The ideal thing, of course, would be for the school itself to own a small library as a laboratory in which students could be tested for administrative ability under supervision.

  75. But, before any of these, right into the midst of our lonely backwoods life, came the traveling library, for it is characteristic of the traveling library that it is not dependent on modern conveniences for its appearance.

  76. I found the following incorrect and antiquated piece of information respecting this library in a flimsy work, published in 1850, entitled, A Graphic and Historical Sketch of the Antiquities of Totnes, by William Cotton, F.

  77. The library has been recently augmented by the incorporation with it of the books and documents (as well as the members) of the Mathematical Society of London (Spitalfields).

  78. There is a confirmation of the story of the Jews being in treaty for St. Paul's and the Oxford Library in a passage in Carte's Letters, i.

  79. I must, under the regime, direct a large number of inexperienced students in library research, in laboratory research, and in the art of giving demonstrations with apparatus and experiments to audiences.


  80. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "library" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anthology; aquarium; archives; armory; arsenal; atelier; attic; bank; basement; bay; bin; body; bookcase; box; cellar; chest; closet; collection; compilation; conservatory; copy; crate; crib; cupboard; data; depository; depot; dock; drawer; dump; edition; exchequer; fund; hold; holdings; hutch; impression; issue; library; locker; loft; lumberyard; magazine; menagerie; number; office; paradise; park; preserve; printing; rack; repertory; repository; reservation; reserve; reservoir; rick; sanctuary; series; shelf; stack; storage; store; storehouse; storeroom; studio; study; tank; treasure; treasury; vat; vault; volume; warehouse; workroom; zoo


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    library buildings; library economy; library school; library science; library work