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 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
Officials make a decent argument for concentrating on a new central circulating library instead.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2013
The Brontës, in their young years, obtained much of their intellectual food from the circulating library at Keighley.
From The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? by Francis A. Leyland
