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"Flyleaf" Quotes from Famous Books

... on his body was found a diary. On the flyleaf under the heading, "My Pledge," he had written these words: "America must win this war. Therefore, I will work, I will save, I will sacrifice, I will endure, I will fight cheerfully and do my utmost, as if the issue of the whole struggle depended ...

— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various

... tenure, wapentake, the dissolution of the monasteries and the enclosure of common lands may be picked up dirt cheap at any second-hand bookshop in the Charing Cross Road with the words "Presentation Copy" erased from the flyleaf by a special and ingenious process. What is happening now is that farmers are buying up the big estates in pieces, and Norman piles or Elizabethan manors are beginning to be too expensive to maintain, what with coal and the ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, July 21, 1920 • Various

... the flyleaf, there in clear, bold writing was his name, "John Chadwick Brownleigh," and for the first time she realized that there had passed between them no word of her name. Strange that they two should have come so close as to need no names one with ...

— The Man of the Desert • Grace Livingston Hill

Words linked to "Flyleaf" : folio, leaf