"Scrapbook" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a wonderful story. The name of Terence O'Reilly swam suddenly into the headlines, and his wife began keeping a scrapbook of all the clippings. One among them was destined to be more potent in world affairs than all the rest. It was a "profile" of General O'Reilly published in a great American magazine, and it was notable for ...
— The Golden Judge • Nathaniel Gordon
... most interesting object of all was, perhaps, the open scrapbook, displayed in the midst of some theatrical duodecimos that were strewn upon the table; and pasted into which scrapbook were various critical notices of Miss Snevellicci's acting, extracted from different provincial ...
— The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens
... motherly affection, and also because their early attempts at drawing were very clever, Mrs. Arkwright had, years before, begun a scrapbook, or "Household Album," as it was called, into which she pasted such of her children's original drawings as were held good enough for the honour; the age of the ...
— Six to Sixteen - A Story for Girls • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... scrapbook containing news items, articles, and photographs will prove an interesting aid to self-education or to instruction of children, working girls' clubs, or mothers' meetings. Everybody ought to enlist in this war, for the fight against tuberculosis is a fight for ...
— Civics and Health • William H. Allen
... papers. We have them clipped and pasted in a scrapbook. I'll show you the one about Ben Cameron some day. You met him in Washington, ...
— The Clansman - An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan • Thomas Dixon
... can be split into two or even three parts, however thin the sheet. It may be convenient to know how to do this sometimes; as, for instance, when one wishes to paste in a scrapbook an article printed on both ...
— Composition-Rhetoric • Stratton D. Brooks
... made right! Why, she has only a few months to live. Your friend is very foolish. She should put her energy on something worth while. And she should be careful how she handles their property. That scrapbook, for instance." ...
— The Motor Girls on a Tour • Margaret Penrose
... Average Jones issued advertisements like commands. The advertisements would, perhaps, have struck the formal-minded Kirby as evidences of a wavering intellect. Indeed, they present a curious and incongruous appearance upon the page of Average Jones' scrapbook, where they now mark a successful conclusion. The ...
— Average Jones • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... young person ought to shiver over St. Agnes' Eve on a bright cold winter evening. Over Bemerton's, certainly, because it's a bookshop story. Eugene Field's Tribune Primer to try out her sense of humour. And Archy, by all means, for the same reason. I'll go down and get the Archy scrapbook." ...
— The Haunted Bookshop • Christopher Morley
... thought I would paste them in a scrapbook, or tack them up on the wall instead. Then, I thought I would just keep them in a box forever, and show them to my grandchildren; but, when aunt Nora told me about the sick children at the hospital, then I thought ...
— Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad • Various |
