Just likecollege text books, book prices have been going up steadily for the past few decades, maybe not as much as college text books have (a whopping1041% price increasesince 1977!) but they have been going up. And if you’re a bookworm, buying a few books a month can put a serio...
Study [a trip schedule] as though it were a pack of Tarot cards in some tricky configuration —Sue Grafton Studying him like a culture —William Mcllvanney Surveyed [books] like a guard with his flashlight making the midnight rounds —Elizabeth Hardwick Being watched like a rabbit in a labora...
Face … strong, like Greek statuary —Sue Grafton Faces were like the faces of lions —The Holy Bible/Kings A face that looked as if it had been left out on the fire escape for over half a century —Rex Stout A face that resembled a diseased cauliflower —Miles Gibson A face that see...
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By way of example, the invention will be discussed below in the contexts of sale of a used paperback copy of Sue Grafton's book titled “A is for Alibi.” First, a seller identifies (“registers”) his book for sale with the marketeer as shown at step 20. The marketeer does not ...
ferner Anthony Grafton, Codex in Crisis: The Book Dematerializes, in: Ders., Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West, Cambridge/MA. 2009, S. 288–324. 52 Vgl. z. B. Andrew Prescott, The Imaging of Historical Documents, in: Greengrass/Hughes (Hrsg.), ...
My mouth [from smoking a cigarette] tasted like a cross between charred sticks and spoiled eggs —Sue Grafton My mouth was dry and tasty as a hen-coop floor —Harold Adams My mouth tasted like an old penny —Robert B. Parker My tongue felt like a slice of ham in my mouth, salty and...
Define adamantly. adamantly synonyms, adamantly pronunciation, adamantly translation, English dictionary definition of adamantly. adj. Not willing to change one's opinion, purpose, or principles; unyielding. n. 1. A stone once believed to be impenetrable
(She seemed volatile right now,) unstable, like a vial of nitroglycerin —Sue Grafton Unsteady like a pole balanced on the tip of one’s finger —Arthur Schopenhauer Wavering as the wind —John Heywood’s Proverbs Modernized from the Old English: “Waueryng as the wynde.” Wobbled like an...
My memory kicked in; one of those wonderful little mental jolts, like a quick electric shock when a plug’s gone bad —Sue Grafton My memory’s like a policeman, never there when you want it —Ronald Harwood This line is spoken by the main character in Harwood’s playThe Dresser. ...