"Flyleaf" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and reading the records on the flyleaf, I said: "My Lord, I am going to say something which you may think rather audacious. I think this book ought to go back to Massachusetts. Nobody knows how it got over here. Some people think it was carried off by Governor Hutchinson, the Tory Governor; other ...
— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar
... Darwin had said that by some inadvertence, which he was unable to excuse or account for, a blunder had been made which he would at once correct so far as was in his power by a letter to the Times or the Athenaeum, and that a notice of the erratum should be printed on a flyleaf and pasted into all unsold copies of the "Life of Erasmus Darwin," there would have been no more heard about the matter from me; but when Mr. Darwin maintained that it was a common practice to take advantage of an opportunity of revising a work to interpolate a covert ...
— Unconscious Memory • Samuel Butler
... tied with blue ribbon. Herein were contained the remarkable thoughts which from time to time had come to this woman during her seventeen years' occupancy of the chair in which she sat. Upon the flyleaf was inscribed "Aphorisms: by Eugenie Ram." It was her intent to publish this darling work when beneath each letter of the alphabet twelve ...
— Once Aboard The Lugger • Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson
... books and opened the one which lay upon the top. Something was written on the flyleaf—just a few ...
— A Little Princess • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... took out a dumpy Bible, which, sure enough, bore on the flyleaf the inscription: 'To Matthew Fell, from his Loving Godmother, ...
— Ghost Stories of an Antiquary • Montague Rhodes James
... as a souvenir, with the verses from the Koran written on the flyleaf in Arabic in Grim's fine hand. Underneath them, in Greek characters with a pencil line scrawled through them, is the only sentence that ...
— Jimgrim and Allah's Peace • Talbot Mundy
... to a bookcase and removed a volume in a faded cover that had once been bright with rainbow colors. He sat down and wrote an inscription on the flyleaf. ...
— The Man from Time • Frank Belknap Long
... carried about Stanley's note in my pocket-book until I am sorry to say the flyleaf has become hideously stained. ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 2 • Leonard Huxley
... very much to write it for me in the flyleaf of this Prayer-Book that Mr. Charnock ...
— The Three Brides • Charlotte M. Yonge
... writing something on the flyleaf of her prayer-book," he said to himself presently. "I hope she's not going to send it to me. I won't take it. She ought to be ...
— Vice Versa - or A Lesson to Fathers • F. Anstey |
