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How to use octavo in a sentence

That there was an octavo edition published at Strasburg in 1536, and that Goldastus followed it.

Cessare potest anno vicesimo-octavo, et perstare post annum quinquagesimum.

Perhaps two or three volumes octavo, would contain all that has been done in this way during the last century.

They will not understand a man who condenses his thoughts into an octavo.

JANE AUSTEN, HER LIFE AND LETTERSWILLIAM AUSTEN-LEIGH AND RICHARD ARTHUR AUSTEN-LEIGH

It will be an octavo of about six hundred pages, with portraits.

Handsome octavo volume of 797 pages, with 201 illustrations.

From 1894 to 1896 Perez has been issuing small pamphlets of about thirty octavo pages at irregular intervals.

Since then the price for an octavo has gradually increased to seven shillings and sixpence, then to ten shillings and sixpence.

PRICES OF BOOKSHENRY B. WHEATLEY

The ordinary octavo volume was published at the beginning of the eighteenth century for five or six shillings.

PRICES OF BOOKSHENRY B. WHEATLEY

He held out the shabby octavo and, considering it again with heightened amazement, of a sudden I knew where I had seen it before.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985