storybook
[stawr-ee-boo k, stohr-]
Origin of storybook
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Examples from the Web for storybook
Contemporary Examples
It would be a storybook ending to one of the ugliest chapters in history of American sports ownership.
Once you drop the storybook image of a patriarch sitting on his throne above the clouds, room is made for a different story.
Their "storybook marriage" had chapters that included MS and cancer.
Nesconset, N.Y., in a suburban neighborhood called the Storybook Development.
Anthony Zuiker is 43 years old and has had the kind of storybook career that most aspiring TV writers dream about.
Historical Examples
I had to give an example, so I read a full page from a storybook.
Wasn't it just a storybook over which I had fallen adoze and adream?
The Turn of the ScrewHenry James
Things do happen like a storybook sometimes, don't they, Al?
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904Lucy Maud Montgomery
Wasnt it just a storybook over which I had fallen a-doze and a-dream?
The Two MagicsHenry James
"Oh, it's delightful to be living in a storybook," she thought gaily.
Anne Of AvonleaLucy Maud Montgomery
storybook
- a book containing stories, esp for children
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- unreal or fantastica storybook world
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