bookcase
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The Qatari plane has oversize leather seats and a faux library bookcase.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
His two youngest girls play, in a discarded bookcase – the nearest they have to a dolls house.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026
Scanning my bookcase, which contains a few hundred volumes, it occurred to me that none of them would make sense if Sister Albertine hadn’t grown me into a reader.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
A wooden bookcase piled with works of pre-Columbian history, archaeology and artist catalogs sags in the middle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024
Somewhere in the night he’d flipped the bookcase over and floated the rest of the way lying inside, dozing safe as a chick in its nest.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
If your home contains more than two bookcases, you probably know the cautionary tale of Homer and Langley Collyer.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
Other publications have revelled in how Sturgeon has given interviews against a backdrop of stolen books in stolen bookcases, or offered cups of coffee to journalists from a coffee machine Murrell bought with stolen money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
“A purchaser has the option of retaining a huge amount of custom millwork: closets, bookcases, kitchen cabinetry, bathroom cabinets, marble counters, and high end appliances,” the listing said.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 2026
The contest was split into two rounds and involved participants making bookcases and bedside tables.
From BBC ● May 3, 2025
She was straightening up the textbooks on the bookcases below the windows.
From "Frindle" by Andrew Clements
