"Black book" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... search in a little black book the bookkeeper looked up—"Seven thousand six hundred-twenty, sir," he ...
— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes
... which in each household originate from the diversity of characters, the numberless incidents of passion, and the habits of the married people give to this black book so many variations, the lines in it are multiplied or erased with such rapidity that a friend of the author has called this Index The History of Changes ...
— The Physiology of Marriage, Part II. • Honore de Balzac |
