bookrest

Example Sentences

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The book is propped on a red bookrest, which chimes with the other colors: the green robes and grass, the lavender landscape, the golden sky, the blue book, the orange carpet.

From Washington Post

"Madame Bovary!" he said quizzically, reading the title of the book on the little fat man's bookrest; and, holding it closer to his boiled-looking eyes, he repeated, as though it were a joke, "Madame Bovary!"

From The Island Pharisees by Galsworthy, John

She stood, she knelt, her prayer book open upon the carved margin of the tomb, the slender crossed legs and paws of the alert little marble dog serving as so often before for bookrest.

From Deadham Hard by Malet, Lucas

Above the screw is a bookrest; at the foot a pedestal, with the ink-bottle upon it.

From Old English Libraries by Savage, Ernest Albert