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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
And on the bookmarker, in pink silk, were embroidered the words: GOD IS LOVE.
From A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds by Frank Boreham
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 Knut Hamsun
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 Frank Boreham
We knelt down; with trembling hands I pulled out the book; it opened of itself where a bookmarker had been placed at the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel of St. John.
From Selected Polish Tales by Marie Busch
Dead leaves from the Bas Breau, echoes from Lavenue's and the Rue Racine, memories of a common past, let these be your bookmarkers as you read.
From The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson
Many years ago, when our grandmothers were girls, they devoted their spare moments to the making of bookmarkers; and on the marker, in colored silk, they embroidered the letters GOD IS LOVE.
From A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds by Frank Boreham
I very quietly said that I always had a stock of bookmarkers ready cut, with a proper place for them: my readers owe many of my anecdotes to this absurd practice.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith
Dead leaves from the Bas Breau, echoes from Lavenue’s and the Rue Racine, memories of a common past, let these be your bookmarkers as you read.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
I made you one of the new bookmarkers out of red tissue paper.
From Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
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