The flyleaves are meant to look like waves on the Yangtze. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Individualism] Reference
It covers the flyleaves of two Testaments, Bob's and Georgia's. From Wordnik.com. [Tunnel In The Sky]
You can write stuff in the front flyleaves and give them to people as presents. From Wordnik.com. [Will eBooks Kill Book Sales?] Reference
You can get the author to write stuff in the front flyleaves and keep them for yourself. From Wordnik.com. [Will eBooks Kill Book Sales?] Reference
I'm good at swapping flyleaves without trace so I could prove the book I'd pinched out of her satchel was mine. From Wordnik.com. [The Vatican Rip]
Goering also took up the question of the British propaganda leaflets, which he called “laughable flyleaves.”. From Wordnik.com. [Human Smoke] Reference
In this case a suspicious resemblance to the flyleaves of old books suggests the source from which it was obtained. From Wordnik.com. [An Atlantic Scandal] Reference
Published 1753, with several generations of pensive inscriptions in Gothic script on the flyleaves from and to various of my husband's ancestors. From Wordnik.com. [The most unusual book in your house.] Reference
One was by Poe and the other byMerne, and when they were opened the party saw from the flyleaves that GriffithTaylor had owned one and Debenham the other. From Wordnik.com. [Terra Incognita]
I love the smell of dusty pages, the faded colours of worn bindings, and the mysterious inscriptions so often found on yellowed and slightly foxed flyleaves. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
These old materials had themselves at some stage been bundled together into several collections of flyleaves and saved in various books which had historical connections with Worcester. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
The collation of the notebook is I-XI12 (132 leaves), plus flyleaves front and back (pp. i-ii and 265-6) conjoint with the respective pastedown end-papers, for an original ii+266 pages. From Wordnik.com. [Notes] Reference
Not only do these grosser defects reduce the value, but it sometimes happens that the mere absence of a half title, or advertising leaves, or even the flyleaves, will make a considerable difference. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
William Beckford used idiosyncratically to copy onto the flyleaves of his beautiful little books the passages that he especially enjoyed, sometimes adding cynical remarks of his own; but even that would probably have been too much like regular work for Mr. Bennet. From Wordnik.com. [What Was Mr. Bennet Doing in his Library, and What Does It Matter?] Reference
But in a feat of inspired scholarship, Duffy has turned to the very features of these books that have rankled those who study them as works of art: the jottings in the margins and on the flyleaves made by their owners, hitherto regarded as defacements at worst and proof of provenance at best. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Margins] Reference
Good copy, light rubbing, moderate acidification to flyleaves. From Wordnik.com. [Cryptomundo] Reference
But the ones on the flyleaves have been standout for many years and I have referred to them often. From Wordnik.com. [Stray Thoughts] Reference
I probably read my favorite psalm, the 45th; but most of my time I spent writing, on the flyleaves, psalms of my own. From Wordnik.com. [A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography] Reference
Raphael sent him are to be found in the flyleaves of books and on the margins of prints and drawings, his possessions. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Durer] Reference
Campion and the others turned each copy over, hunting vainly for any mark in the margin or message scribbled on the flyleaves. From Wordnik.com. [Mystery Mile]
The reference was to a prisoner at Magdeburg who received a book which contained messages written on the flyleaves in lemon juice. From Wordnik.com. [Lafayette] Reference
A living scholar may be capable of going far beyond his predecessors in enriching margins and flyleaves; but there is the caveat that he is our contemporary. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time] Reference
These were marked with notes and references on the flyleaves; and often by pencil marks to indicate important passages, but he did not often make separate notes. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences]
With its marbled flyleaves, thick paper stock and sturdy cloth cover, "Flora Mirabilis" is a lush throwback in this straitened age of digital publishing, when too many book producers are forced to put out flimsy, paper-covered tomes. From Wordnik.com. [JSOnline.com] Reference
Langston Hughes '107th birthday, and it's also the first day of Black History Month - how fitting, then, to celebrate both by taking note of three never-before-known and newly rediscovered Hughes poems, found scribbled in the flyleaves of a book from his personal library. from Weekend America (PBS radio show). From Wordnik.com. [About.com Poetry] Reference
But countless lovers have inscribed its famous first two lines, both written in iambic trimeter, onto the flyleaves of books or Valentine’s Day notes and cards. From Wordnik.com. [2009 February 13 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
17th9:31pwritten on James Patterson flyleaves - 18 replies. From Wordnik.com. [mrissa] Reference
“laughable flyleaves”: “Summary of Marshal Goering’s Speech to the Reich Munitions Workers,” NYT, September 10, 1939. From Wordnik.com. [Human Smoke] Reference
9: 31p written on James Patterson flyleaves. From Wordnik.com. [Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway] Reference
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