book-rest

In his great chair with the book-rest sat old Jolyon, the figurehead of his family and class and creed, with his white head and dome-like forehead, the representative of moderation, and order, and love of property.

The Man of Property 2004

My heaven might have been a lonely, soft arm-chair, a book-rest, and the complete poets, set in Caslon, printed on tough paper: but I had been for twenty-eight years well-fed, and if Arab imagination ran on food-bowls, so much the more attainable their joy.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

And on the book-rest of the prie-dieu, laid where his prayerful hands had rested, was a single knot of flowering may.

A Morbid Taste For Bones Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1977

Carpenter groaned heavily, closed his book, swung back the hinged book-rest, finished his coffee, levered himself upright with another groan, slid open his side-screen and made an elaborate pretence of examining the loom of light far below, without, however, actually going to the lengths of exposing his face to the wind and the driving snow outside.

Where Eagles Dare MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1967

This book-rest holds the book in any position and at any slant, so that you can shift the book when you change your position as freely as you can move your hand.

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 37, July 22, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls Various

The brass book-rest at the foot of the polished marble steps in front was given in Dean Scott's memory by his sons and daughters.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See

The cupids on the clock, the little book-rest on a velvet stand, the picture of the Virgin that hung over her bed, with rosaries and palms entwined about it, the photographs of her girl-friends standing on her writing table in pretty frames of old-fashioned silk-all seemed to see her depart with a look of sympathy.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Cainnech, like Ciaran, made a book-rest of the horns of a stag (CS, 383), and books which Colum Cille had lost were restored to him by a stag (TT, _Quinta Vita_, p. 407).

The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints Anonymous

Next door to the shaving and smoking tray should be the book-rest.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31 Various

Few things make the leaves of a book stick together so easily as being dropped in a hot bath, so they had better have a book-rest; and if they go to sleep I shall set in motion my emergency waste mechanism, by which the bath can be emptied in malice from outside.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31 Various