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bookcase

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A case with shelves for holding books, esp. one with glazed doors.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. Anatole Broyard

Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices. Charles Baudelaire

The opera-glasses she stole from the bookcase so that each morning she could look through them down into the street in order to make people bigger and bring them close to her in order to feel less lonely. Stig Dagerman

I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific. Virginia Woolf

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase. Linda Grant

Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person's bookcase and their grocery cart, she'd pretty much know who they were. Louise Penny

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