Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...staring disconsolately at the shelves, in vain straining my eyes for the wished-for book, a youth came along, mounted the step-ladder, and, removing some books on the top shelf, brought from behind them the very book I was looking for. The mystery was solved. Instead of some studious person having the book, it was an extremely selfish individual, who, in order to have the book when he desired it, had deprived many others from using it in the meanwhile. This is done through selfishness. Another cause of our being deprived of books is carelessness : a student finishing...
...reference cards should all have the alcove and shelf marks of the books. It is a little hard to be referred to two or three different cards for the want of four or five figures in the margin of the first...
...Then there are the books themselves, their condition, number, and bindings. And here let me warn you to beware of him who allows his books to stand upside down. One who will do this will do anything. What a shock it gives you, in looking along an otherwise orderly shelf, to come upon a book looking piteously at you with its title at the bottom and the publisher's name at the top. A man may turn me upside down, but not my books...
...speedily leave this soulless being and enter a room in which the book-case shows us a row or two of text-books in admirable condition, and a shelf of nicely bound standard works, such as Shakspere, Milton, Macaulay, and so forth. The books all stand exactly upright, each one is in its proper place, and not a speck of dust can be seen on any of them. On seeing such a book-case in a room, I immediately look to see if my boots have left any mud on the carpet, I feel uncomfortable about my umbrella, and wish...
...echo from the shelf I hear...