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  • I said one day as I returned an exercise-book I had been examining.

    The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

  • I took her exercise-book; out of her hand; as I turned over the leaves I addressed her: — “You have had lessons in English before?”

    The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

  • Anna quickly took out of a table-drawer a thin exercise-book, ten pages, no more, and held it out to Aratov.

    Dream tales and prose poems 2006

  • Mrs. Babbitt sat over by the piano, making a nightgown and gazing with respect while Babbitt wrote in the exercise-book, to the rhythmical wiggling and squeaking of the sewing-table.

    Babbit 2004

  • Ivan nodded towards the exercise-book lying on the table.

    The Brothers Karamazov 2003

  • They had named him after the hero of their Latin exercise-book, which overflowed with anecdotes of that versatile genius — anecdotes whose vagueness in detail was more than compensated by their sensational brilliance.

    A Tangled Tale 2003

  • He was looking at an exercise-book and slowly writing with a pen.

    The Brothers Karamazov 2003

  • He has an exercise-book under his pillow with the French words written out in

    The Brothers Karamazov 2003

  • He would droop over the exercise-book pensively, pulling at his beard.

    My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

  • Through all this I would be watching him, fascinated, the exercise-book lying forgotten in front of me.

    My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

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