How To Use Commonplace book In A Sentence
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He wrote it down in his commonplace book because that was where he stored anecdotes on specifically ethical and political topics.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It is more than a commonplace book - a wonderful thing in itself, but anecdotal and made in the moment.
Times, Sunday Times
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The commonplace book fixes time and arrests fading memory.
Times, Sunday Times
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It sometimes reads like the most self-indulgent and maundering commonplace book, pregnant with ideas and jottings, their author unwilling or unable to develop them cogently.
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Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he placed his cuttings.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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This project is producing a database guide to about 400 manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books by British women from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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It is more than a commonplace book - a wonderful thing in itself, but anecdotal and made in the moment.
Times, Sunday Times
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For example, he called Madonna's chromium-plated coffee table book SEX "a Commonplace book for our day, by the Daisy Ashford of the 1990s, as filled with homilies and naive dreams as the diary of any Victorian young lady.
Ballard Gone: World at Half Mast
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He wrote it down in his commonplace book because that was where he stored anecdotes on specifically ethical and political topics.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he placed his cuttings.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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Plays for the public theatres (with Shakespeare's predominant) were widely quoted in poetic miscellanies and commonplace books starting in the 1590s, for instance, in company with the brightest literary lights of the day.
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Commonplace books could be repositories for meticulously copied out poems, proverbs, and moral exempla; they could also permit a large degree of freedom in both the choice of material transcribed and in the way in which it was recorded.
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The commonplace book fixes time and arrests fading memory.
Times, Sunday Times
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At one end of the spectrum were the Latin commonplace books compiled by schoolboys, organized into ‘topics’ or ‘places’ under which sententious sayings were recorded.
