Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A book of ruled or unruled writing-paper for accounts, memoranda, etc.
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Examples
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This is a blank-book for book reviews and reports on home reading.
The Short-story William Patterson Atkinson
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I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various
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It was unanimously adopted, and they all wrote their names under the text in a new blank-book which was handed over to Jim, who offered no objection to being made secretary.
The Story of the Big Front Door Mary Finley Leonard
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Full of the idea, she pinned together sheets of wrapping-paper into a bulky blank-book, on the outside of which she printed:
Ten American Girls From History Kate Dickinson Sweetser
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The ticket-seller, seated behind a small table, a blank-book, and piles of blank tickets, charged eleven
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy Various
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Turn it over in your mind in leisure moments, and, as thoughts flash upon you, jot them down in your blank-book.
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg
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Napoleon, drawing the badly scrawled blank-book from his pocket.
The Boy Life of Napoleon Afterwards Emperor of the French Eugenie Foa
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Mr. Lott retired on account of ill health, and the firm became Sanford & Hayward, which it has ever since remained, and which has steadily built up a large and profitable blank-book and lithographing business.
Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men Maurice [Unknown role] Joblin
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The young doctor went his rounds, with a small blank-book in his hand, writing down with a pencil the few and simple prescriptions that he gave.
The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens
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There really was so much to tell Bess that she began to keep a diary in a little blank-book she bought for that purpose.
Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret Annie Roe Carr
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