on the shelf

“Yap! Seems I’ve got a bit of a cold coming on. No cause for alarm. They come and go with me, every four weeks or so. Arf! That is to say, ah-choo! Hand me the almanac, would you, Quinzy? It tends to wander off if I don’t put it right back on the shelf. Why, you’d think the book was cursed, woof!”

She had put it there herself, at that exact spot on the shelf.

I also worked in the antiques shop, cleaning and dusting things like the sets of beautiful Russian glasses that sat on the shelf.

I could have put the book back on the shelf and headed off to the fiction section, but instead I bought the guidebook and a couple more.

"We found this material on the shelf. We used it and it was amazing. We understood why it was good. Then the cherry on the top -- we knew how to do better, added that special sauce, and we made the world's best material for these applications," Anderson said.