circulating library
Example Sentences
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Among its innovations, the store established a circulating library for travelers wintering in Pasadena’s grand resort hotels, who often preferred to rent a book rather than lug it home.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2022
The stacks, which were to have been demolished to make way for the Foster-designed circulating library, have been mostly empty since 2013, to the dismay of some scholars and preservationists.
From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2017
The Imperial Library was what’s known as a circulating library.
From Washington Post • Apr. 2, 2016
Books were expensive, but for a modest fee you could join a circulating library.
From Slate • Feb. 9, 2016
And one large and cow-like lady with a shopping-bag containing circulating library books and other commodities said to her companion, in Kitty Grammont's hearing, two things that accorded strangely with her aspect.
From What Not A Prophetic Comedy by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
