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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 Stevenson, Robert Louis

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 Stevenson, Robert Louis

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 Smith, David Eugene

I made you one of the new bookmarkers out of red tissue paper.

From Anne of Green Gables by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

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 Boreham, Frank