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  • noun Plural form of tome.

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  • Certainly the grooviest of the tomes is the nearly six-pound, 800-page Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping, the product of a Harvard-based venture led by starchitect Rem Koolhaas — whose showmanship contains more than a whiff of quackery — that explores the relationship between shopping and “the urban condition.”

    Babes in Toyland 2006

  • Certainly the grooviest of the tomes is the nearly six-pound, 800-page Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping, the product of a Harvard-based venture led by starchitect Rem Koolhaas — whose showmanship contains more than a whiff of quackery — that explores the relationship between shopping and “the urban condition.”

    Babes in Toyland 2006

  • A TRIO of superbly honed and crafted pome tomes from a man who knows how to harness the pen and paper together and make it sing ring zing.

    ed markowski | three by… « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • Goodmail argues it is good, wholesome and, in fact, healthy for the Internet for them to make money forcing me to read twisted, evil tomes from the monstrous evil-doers at NAMBLA.

    Scripting News for 3/17/2006 « Scripting News Annex 2006

  • Goodmail argues it is good, wholesome and, in fact, healthy for the Internet for them to make money forcing me to read twisted, evil tomes from the monstrous evil-doers at NAMBLA.

    Scripting News for 3/17/2006 « Scripting News Annex 2006

  • Like almost all the similarly titled tomes produced by the German mandarins, Wundt's Logik (in two, later three 600-page volumes in four editions) molders away in research libraries.

    Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt Kim, Alan 2006

  • He advocated substituting theocracy for the Constitution, wrote, you know, thousand-word tomes explaining how this would work out during the 1960s, during the battles for desegregation, and influenced people like Jerry Falwell.

    Democracy Now! 2009

  • He advocated substituting theocracy for the Constitution, wrote, you know, thousand-word tomes explaining how this would work out during the 1960s, during the battles for desegregation, and influenced people like Jerry Falwell.

    Democracy Now! 2009

  • My parents had a couple of HUGE antique tomes definitely qualified as "tomes" about native Americans with those old "etching" style illustrations.

    The most unusual book in your house. Ann Althouse 2009

  • But for the sake of the question, here are a few of the "tomes" that are awaiting the opportunity to tell me a story:

    Archive 2008-10-01 Stephanie 2008

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