decked

Example Sentences

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If they give it an abstract cover and pages with deckled edges, they signal to readers: “This book is literary and important.”

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2021

The red leather cover was creased and the deckled pages were getting grubby.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

The portraits include several which have never appeared in book form before, and the printing has been carefully done at the University Press in Cambridge on specially made, deckled edge paper.

From Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories by Cram, Ralph Adams

He opened the book slowly, wondering from whence it had come, and from the deckled leaves a pressed forget-me-not fell into his hand.

From Hidden Water by Dixon, Maynard

"I am glad to hear it; but to what circumstance is so deckled a revulsion of sentiment attributable?"

From At the Mercy of Tiberius by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)