tomes
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The book’s length and creeping pace are reminiscent of 19th-century tomes that had to be padded out to meet the requirements of serialization.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Kyiv's Pochaina second-hand book market was also struck, wiping out hundreds of individual stalls and countless treasured tomes.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
The Berkshire proxy is readable and runs less than 20 pages and compares with the 100-plus page tomes that most big companies issue.
From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026
Meanwhile, my sister collected cookbooks and fantasy tomes as I finished the final chapters of yet another Jane Austen classic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
And then they brought out their largest tomes bound in gold, the leather covers stamped with the five-cornered star of the Concordian Empire, and threw open the heavy covers.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
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