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... to get a chair, from which he had to move a mass of tissue-paper patterns and buckram linings. He brought ...

— Widdershins • Oliver Onions

... a Large Paper Edition limited to 150 numbered copies, printed on Imit. Hand-made Paper, illustrations mounted on vellum with decorative borders in gold. Bound in buckram, ...

— Amaryllis at the Fair • Richard Jefferies

... affectation. He pours his thoughts out upon paper as they arise in his mind; and they arise in his mind without pretence, or constraint, from the pure impulse of learned leisure and contemplative indolence. He is not here on stilts or in buckram; but smiles in his easy chair, as he moralises through the loopholes of retreat, on the bustle and raree-show of the world, or on "those reverend bedlams, colleges and schools!" He had nothing to do but to read and to think, and to tell his friends what he read and thought. His ...

— Lectures on the English Poets - Delivered at the Surrey Institution • William Hazlitt

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