The slender, square tome was to be found poking out of backpacks the world over.
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The pic is based on the Brian Garfield tome and Carnahan penned this adaptation.
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However, there have been times in history when the term implied tome-like works.
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For one thing, they clarify her heroic role in the publication of the great tome.
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Mrs Bercow, a first-time fiction writer, has titled her tome Westminster Wives.
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Not many people are interested in sitting down with a 1,000-page economic tome.
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He issued bizarre decrees and made a spiritual tome he wrote mandatory reading.
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His literary agent has signaled to publishers that the tome will be full of news.
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In fact, were I to attempt that, I'd have to write a book, nay, a veritable tome.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
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A (usually) large and scholarly book
Tomu00E9 is a port city and commune in the Biobu00EDo Region of Chile. It is bordered by Coelemu to the north, Ru00E1nquil and Florida to the east, Penco to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. The local economy is based mainly on textile manufacturing and fishing industry.
Philippe Vandevelde, working under the pseudonym Tome (born February 24, 1957 in Brussels), is a comic strip script writer. He is known for collaborations with Janry on Spirou et Fantasio and Le Petit Spirou, and with Luc Warnant and later Bruno Gazzotti on Soda. ...
[from Greek tomeus one that cuts] (1) cutting instrument (microtome); (2) part, section (gonotome).
Each of the separate volumes which compose a literary work or book; rarely, one of the largest parts or sections of a single volume.
An item consumed by a character to increase ability scores.