commonplace book

Historical Examples of commonplace book

• Every one has his and her own way of keeping a commonplace-book.

  The Private Library

  Arthur L. Humphreys

• I have a commonplace-book for facts, and another for poetry.

  Concord Days

  A. Bronson Alcott

• She has evidently just taken up this study; her exercises show the same thoroughness she exhibited in her German commonplace-book.

  The Story of a Life

  J. Breckenridge Ellis

• Mr. Monroe took up his commonplace-book, and made memorandums of my statements respecting the mines.

  Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers

  Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

• Distrust the gentleman in the plush terminations; he, too, is a penny-a-liner, and keeps a commonplace-book in the pantry.

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 65, No. 400, February, 1849

  Various