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In a leather-bound Bible was seen this rhyme: "Evert Jonson His book God Give him Grase thair in to look not only to looke but to understand that Larning is better than Hous or Land When Land is Gon & Gold is spent then larning is most Axelant When I am dead & Rotton If this you see Remember me Though others is forgotton." Different portions of this script have been seen in many books.

Only fancy, that magnificent Cyclopaedia, leather-bound, and stamped, and gilt, and wide margined, and bearing the blazon of your house in magnificent colours, says that the twinkling of the stars is probably caused by heavenly bodies passing in front of them in their revolutions. 'And is it not so? That was what I learned when I was a girl.

"Shall I read to you, Mr. Garth?" she asked, taking down from a shelf near the rafters a big leather-bound book. It was a Bible, dust-covered and with rusty clasps, which had lain untouched for years. "Rotha," said Garth, "read to me where it tells of sins that are as scarlet being washed whiter nor wool." The girl found the place.

A dusky room, in spite of its rounded, outstanding sash-windows, two on either side the glass door; the air of it holding, in permanent solution, an odour of leather-bound volumes. A place, in short, which, though not inhospitable, imposed itself, its qualities and traditions, to an extent impossible for any save the most thick-skinned and thick-witted wholly to ignore or resist.

"You might tell her, you and Henry was going to take a leather-bound; that might have some effect. I remember once I sold three Famous People in a row in one street. There couldn't one o' them women endure to think of her next door neighbor having something she didn't have." "That's so, Lois," beamed Mrs. Daggett. "The most of folks is about like that.

I asked permission to see the register containing the entry of the mysterious interment; and after the administration of a shilling to the clerk a shilling at Dewsdale being equal to half a crown in London the vestry cupboard was opened by that functionary, and the book I required was produced from a goodly pile of such mouldy brown leather-bound volumes. The following is a copy of the entry:

He asked Julia what books she liked, and, surprised that she knew nothing of Browning, he sent her a great volume of his poetry, a leather-bound exquisite edition that Jim had taken some trouble to find.

Even the huge leather-bound books in the windows seemed to be the same as in the days when the future American diplomatist had been, if not a merry-hearted, then a most enthusiastic student, making eager acquaintance with "The Quarter."

As he spoke his hand reached out mechanically and drew the leather-bound box toward him. "Ah, it is in that box, then," said Holcombe, in a quiet, grave tone. "Now count it out, and be quick." "Are you drunk?" cried the other, fiercely. "Do you propose to turn highwayman and thief? What do you mean?"

She snatched it from him, and motioned him back imperiously towards the courtyard. After he had gone quite out of sight she walked quickly up the little street till she came to a low, leather-bound door which gave access to the church whose fine buttress bestowed such distinction on the otherwise rather sordid Rue Saint Ange.