Among these I found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: The Abbot, by Walter Scott, The Devout Communnicant and The Memoirs of Vidocq.

There was a package of cigarettes on the side table, and a paper-covered book of one-act plays.

The book the Honorable Freddie was reading was a small paper-covered book.

Snubby undid his case and took out a paper-covered book.

Aline took the paper-covered book.

In her hands was a paper-covered book, with a coffee-stain across its cover and with as many dogs' ears as it had pages.

He took a paper-covered book out of the pocket of his coat and opened it; then laid it down on the table and lit his pipe.

A clock and a cheap brown teapot served as book-ends on a wardrobe to prop up a shabby collection - Carlyle's Heroes and Hero-Worship, lives of Napoleon and Cromwell, and numbers of little paper-covered books about what to do with Youth, Labour, Europe, God.

Fergus had brought back three new books from his latest trip to Wilmington: a set of essays by Michel de Montaigne-those were in French, no good-a tattered copy of Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, and a very thin, paper-covered book by B. Franklin, The Means and Manner of Obtaining Virtue.

There were books on tactics and military history, books on dynamics and ballistics and higher mathematics, mixed up with red paper-covered books filled with notes in a clear, rather ornamental hand.