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The bookmarker said football results in December and Donald Trump's surprise US election win had cost it about £40m in the final quarter of 2016.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2017
This all happened many years ago; but quite recently some who were present declared that they never forgot the story of the bookmarker and the comfort that it brought.
From A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds by Boreham, Frank
But this—this mowing-machine of his—'twas a crawling nest of steel springs and hooks and apparatus, and hundreds of screws—Inger's sewing-machine was a bookmarker compared with this!
From Growth of the Soil by Hamsun, Knut
Among those pages he found Mrs. Jake's marriage 'lines,' a photograph of her husband in military uniform, some pressed flowers and--a perforated bookmarker!
From A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds by Boreham, Frank
I turned to the fifteenth chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians: showed the captain where to begin; and laid the bookmarker opposite the place.
From Wandering Heath by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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