To get a book that has someone else's marginalia is even more special somehow. From Wordnik.com. [42 entries from November 2007] Reference
The central image is a sort of generic court scene, while the "marginalia" will change to illustrate the changing seasons. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
The center of the projection- a court scene at Camelot- will stay the same as the "marginalia" changes to reflect the changing seasons. From Wordnik.com. [Your help, gentle readers] Reference
"Back in the 19th century historians thought that 'marginalia' simply were the fancy of the artist and that the artist was illiterate," Hunt says. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
IOW, we’re being distracted by quibbling over marginalia, which is an externality that amateurs use to flood the zone with astroturf and you know it. From Wordnik.com. [Green Alps #1 « Climate Audit] Reference
In various ways, marginalia express and enforce standards. From Wordnik.com. [What Was Mr. Bennet Doing in his Library, and What Does It Matter?] Reference
Even then her interest in marginalia revolved around breasts. From Wordnik.com. [This blog is 4 years old today.] Reference
I will try to pay more attention to the displays of marginalia. From Wordnik.com. ["The last thing we need is a President who encourages festering racial controversies."] Reference
marginalia built upon marginalia produces underwhelming results. From Wordnik.com. [Prospecting Some Personal Landscapes] Reference
Blake, who used marginalia as an alternative form of publication; Horace. From Wordnik.com. [What Was Mr. Bennet Doing in his Library, and What Does It Matter?] Reference
The marginalia was fascinating and my first example of how one might read a poem. From Wordnik.com. [70's Poetry Margaret Atwood] Reference
Did the President really not know about the genocide, as his marginalia suggested?. From Wordnik.com. [Bystanders to Genocide] Reference
Should the genitalia marginalia be treated as firm precedent or are they just dickta?. From Wordnik.com. [Genitalia marginalia.] Reference
We have lost touch with this order of document: we are not sure how to assess marginalia. From Wordnik.com. [What Was Mr. Bennet Doing in his Library, and What Does It Matter?] Reference
Taking its courseWell, great writing makes for great note taking and ephemera and marginalia. From Wordnik.com. [The Fragments of Samuel Beckett] Reference
Anyone who has handled illuminated manuscripts develops a love of marginalia and I am no exception. From Wordnik.com. [Even in a little thing] Reference
Kurp suggests the habit may be just as bad, but I am a passionate scorer and composer of marginalia. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
Oh, how I sometimes yearn for my old Penguin paperbacks with my cramped marginalia littering the pages!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
Most of Wilde's marginalia express his readerly response to a text; some are of a more private character. From Wordnik.com. ['Built of Books'] Reference
One woman, in her marginalia, laments the destruction of a shrine and details the contents of her linen closet. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Margins] Reference
It was his war and, scribbled on the talking points, his marginalia directing the counter-P.R. pursuit of Wilson. From Wordnik.com. [Caught in the Spin Cycle] Reference
They're in the Boston Public Library in the archival section, and you can go back there and read this marginalia. From Wordnik.com. [Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams] Reference
"And this goes for the marginalia we were discussing today," Jorge could not keep from commenting in a low voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Name of the Rose]
So many of his memories included an offstage trickle of melody, like marginalia embroidering a page of manuscript. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
Dante labels his Commedia “digressive,” while typically the medieval commentator ringed his text with marginalia. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
There was little fiction, and most of the books had been read thoroughly, with much underlining and pencilled marginalia. From Wordnik.com. [Hide And Seek]
As a sort of marginalia to our counter Aquatics Complex, this tide pool in Saint-Malo, Brittany, France, during low tide. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
When lending a book to someone, he advises before doing so inscribing obscure marginalia in it that implies your profundity. From Wordnik.com. [The Success of Failure] Reference
The user can call up a virtual keyboard that allows users to search for terms, highlight words and make annotations marginalia. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-17] Reference
Also, blog people need to get off the marginalia and give Obama some money and support for running his general election campaign. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Adviser: We're Outspending Obama Three-To-One On TV Ads] Reference
We do not have many instances of her marginalia and what we have is small-scale stuff, nothing like Coleridge's expansive essays. From Wordnik.com. [What Was Mr. Bennet Doing in his Library, and What Does It Matter?] Reference
The paper on which she'd taken notes was full, and on the sides, like some sort of horrible marginalia, were rows and rows of swastikas. From Wordnik.com. [Briar Rose]
Some of the marginalia mentioned in the article are intriguing:William Goldman's ''Adventures in the Screen Trade abounds in marginalia. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference
It was interesting to read a copy of it that had been in the house for a long time, that my son had read once and filled with marginalia. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference
When I recently reread this novel as part of my 100-novels reading project, I was sometimes distracted by my underlinings and marginalia. From Wordnik.com. [100 Novels: The Unbearable Lightness of Being « Exile on Ninth Street] Reference
And if you type that word into a page on his Web site, it will offer you all of this marginalia or footnotes about yet another digression. From Wordnik.com. [Booksellers' Picks: 15 Soaring Summer Reads] Reference
(Soundbite of song, “Fire Engine Dream”) BRADY: Oftentimes, bands who release collections of B-sides and rarities are just seeking to get rid of musical marginalia. From Wordnik.com. [Sonic Youth's B-Sides Are Worthwhile and Strong] Reference
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