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After learning some three hundred words, easily done in a week, I stumbled through some easy book-work and underlined every word that I wished to recollect. ...
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This was the first rotary press made for a good grade of book-work.
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Just as the second stage has, particularly for book-work, virtually superseded the first, so the third is destined to supersede the second.
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Most of these books relate to fine binding, fine printing, or fine illustration of books, or are intended to exemplify them, and by their means, by lectures, and exhibitions of fine book-work, this society has contributed much toward the diffusion of correct taste.
A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Ainsworth Rand Spofford
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Nothing is more paralysing to a student of archæology than continuous book-work.
The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology Arthur E. P. B. Weigall
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Another press, which is still employed to a small extent for book-work, is the flat-bed perfecting press.
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She never could swim a stroke herself, but was splendid in the book-work of the thing.
Tell England A Study in a Generation Ernest Raymond 1931
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But this book-work was the least of the influences acting upon him.
Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard, 1860-1933 1920
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Study, book-work, and solitary thinking and writing show us only one side of what we study.
Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Maud Howe Elliott 1915
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Of course we stuck by him, I and Dawson, who, with his wife. used to do the book-work and the managing.
The Sign of Four 1915
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