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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
misshelve .
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Examples
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I've seen the British Library stacks, thanks to a reader of this humble blog, and can just imagine what would happen if you misshelved something.
Perspective 2009
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I've seen the British Library stacks, thanks to a reader of this humble blog, and can just imagine what would happen if you misshelved something.
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Unfortunately the rental store had misshelved one of the ones I asked for and gave us the Robot Tentacle Porn episode of βLa Blue Girl.β
How to Irritate and Annoy People in the Name of Blogging « Whatever 2007
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One of the tangible ways in which dislike manifests is through misshelved books.
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They also had Janet Evanovich's ONE FOR THE MONEY, which I had looked for, couldn't find, and then after I'd already bought the others, spotted misshelved.
Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2004
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Many other books intervened, and I had forgotten about it until I found it misshelved in my library earlier this month.
Archive 2006-12-01 ricklibrarian 2006
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Many other books intervened, and I had forgotten about it until I found it misshelved in my library earlier this month.
A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History by Thomas Bender ricklibrarian 2006
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The Old Wives 'Tale wasn't there (it had probably ended up in the book sale already), but right next to Beckett was Butler's The Way of All Flesh, which meant The Old Wives' Tale might just be misshelved.
Futures Imperfect Willis, Connie 1994
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The most unpleasant aspect of my job is having to explain to people that the book they're looking for -- the book the computer says should be on the shelf -- is probably stolen, sitting in a gurney, or misshelved.
Chicago Reader 2010
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At a blog called "biologists helping bookstores," a Pasadena-based woman whose handle is Shandon explains how she deliberately misshelved Mike Behe's Edge of Evolution, and a number of other books - distributing them around the store according to her private tastes.
Uncommon Descent O'Leary 2010
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