Indeed a point of gallantry was involved in my doing so, inasmuch as I had not left France alone, but had come from the prisons of St. Pelagie with my distinguished and unfortunate friend Madame Roland (in two volumes which I bought for two francs each, at the book-stall in the Place de la Concorde, Paris, at the corner of the Rue Royale). ❋ Unknown (2007)
Elated with success and piqued by the growing interest of the problem, they have left no book-stall unsearched, no chest in a garret unopened, no file of old yellow accounts to decompose in damp and worms, so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy ❋ Unknown (2006)
He stood at the appointed book-stall amid a crowd of Sunday travellers, in a Harris tweed suit exhaling, as it were, the emotion of his thumping heart. ❋ Unknown (2004)
There, having tipped the guard to secure emptiness, she left her bag in a corner seat and took up her stand by the book-stall, where Jon must pass with his ticket. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Peace, which he bought at a second-hand book-stall for five cents. ❋ Unknown (2004)
So it came to pass that one day, whilst wandering listlessly about the streets of the old town, I came to a small book-stall, and stopping, commenced turning over the books; I took up at least ❋ Unknown (2004)
He read the names of the novels on the bookstall, and bought one at last, to avoid being regarded with suspicion by the book-stall clerk. ❋ Unknown (2004)
As I returned to the inn from the train I took refuge from a shower in one of the rows or covered streets, to which, as I have already said, one ascends by flights of steps; stopping at a book-stall I took up a book which chanced to be a Welsh one. ❋ Unknown (2004)
One evening in early autumn, as he stood before the book-stall at the end of Goodge Street, a familiar voice accosted him. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I remember once, in passing a book-stall, to have caught these words from a page of some satiric author: “By this time I became convinced that the London newspapers spoke truth at least twice a week, viz., on Tuesday and Saturday, and might safely be depended upon for — the list of bankrupts.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
I paused at a book-stall and made two small purchases, and wandered on until I came to a meat market. ❋ King, Laurie R. (1999)
Flashman's memory may be playing him false when he speaks of a railway book-stall; it was more probably a railway library. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1971)
She was at least able to resist the temptation of asking the boy at the book-stall where she bought ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)
If any one feels an interest in the process of exhaustion, by which such treasures were reduced to rarity, he may easily witness it in the _débris_ of a circulating library; and perhaps he will find the phenomenon in still more distinct operation at any book-stall where lie heaps of school-books, odd volumes of novels, and a choice of Watts's Hymns and Pilgrim's Progresses. ❋ John Hill Burton (N/A)
Raynal's Philosophical History of the East and West Indies, without which no book-stall is to be considered complete, and which seem to be possessed of a supernatural power of resistance to the elements, since, month after month, in fair weather or foul, they are to be seen at their posts dry or dripping. ❋ John Hill Burton (N/A)
I suppose that is the reason why the small, old-fashioned book, for which you need pay only sixpence at a book-stall, works miracles to this day, turning bitter waters into sweetness; while expensive sermons and treatises, newly issued, leave all things as they were before. ❋ A.E. Marty (N/A)
Invalides the names of a hundred battle-fields; muses on the proximity of the lofty and time-stained Cathedral, and the little book-stall, where poor students linger in the sun; detects a government spy in the loquacious son of Crispin who acts as porter at his lodgings; pulls the ❋ Various (N/A)
London book-stall, and stating that I would not take a hundred dollars for it. ❋ Various (N/A)
