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  • I have sat at the desk in her office, bashing the phones and answering emails, and studying the book-lined walls that were her extraordinary research base, proof of the substance that underpinned everything she ever said or did.

    Claire Rayner: A sane voice that helped people make sense of the knotty complications of their sexual lives Jay Rayner 2010

  • But we were somewhat more open to experimentation in the kitchen and especially in the book-lined hallway.

    Painting Outside the Lines Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • As I walked around the book-lined room, feeling the soft carpet beneath my bare feet, I began to breathe more slowly and more deeply.

    Stuart Dow: Salhad Din: My Experience As Other Stuart Dow 2010

  • "Our long-term aims remain the same as they've been since we took the Post Company public in 1971: to grow the long-term earning power and therefore the value of the business," said Mr. Graham, who occupies a book-lined office down the hall from the legendary editor Ben Bradlee on the ninth floor of the Washington Post building.

    Post's Graham Digs In Amid Pressure Russell Adams 2011

  • Even the book-lined law office has become optional.

    The Case of the Loopy Lawyers Thane Rosenbaum 2011

  • As I walked around the book-lined room, feeling the soft carpet beneath my bare feet, I began to breathe more slowly and more deeply.

    Stuart Dow: Salhad Din: My Experience As Other Stuart Dow 2010

  • Mrs. Ali guided him across the narrow, uneven stone floor of the hallway and deposited him in the wing chair tucked just inside the door of the bright, book-lined living room.

    Excerpt: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson 2010

  • While explanatory texts are frustratingly short and few, photographs showing the white-robed monks serving meals in the unadorned white-walled refectory, studying in the book-lined scriptorium and making mustard and face cream in their new workhouse convey better than any script the fullness of experience possible in even the sparest settings.

    The Pared Minimum Julie V. Iovine 2011

  • As I walked around the book-lined room, feeling the soft carpet beneath my bare feet, I began to breathe more slowly and more deeply.

    Stuart Dow: Salhad Din: My Experience As Other Stuart Dow 2010

  • He went to executive meetings, attended an investor conference, walked the newsroom, and sat in the print man's book-lined office on the ninth floor of the Post building.

    Mark and Don: More Than Just Facebook Friends Christopher S. Stewart 2012

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