Etymology
Origin of classbook
Example Sentences
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"Welch Rabbits," a cartoon in a Yale classbook, depicted Dr. Welch as a magician.
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"Pit's" classbook prophecies, both at William Penn Charter prep school and later at Princeton, were that he would wind up as Chief Justice of the U.S.
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Thirty-seven years earlier, his Annapolis classbook had taken a curiously prophetic bearing on the sailor who was to lead his nation out of the greatest naval disaster in its history.
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I think I have got more help as an author from going a-fishing than from any textbook or classbook I ever looked into.
From Our Friend John Burroughs by Barrus, Clara
Sometimes, also, Mr. Middleton came in with his book or paper, and occasionally, from force of habit, he would take a classbook and hear a recitation.
From Ishmael Or, In the Depths by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
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