1
These, I remember, consisted of a handbag with my dress clothes and a yellow- backed novel.
2
Don't talk like a yellow- backed novel!
3
The missionary boards are now putting out books as thrilling and stirring in their situations as any yellow- backed novel.
4
Sandy was reading a ragged- backed novel while he smoked; his interest in Ford and Ford's battered countenance was plainly perfunctory.
5
She prepared for bed, and placing the lamp on the edge of the bureau, she lay down to become absorbed in a paper- backed novel.
6
While I waited for my chop I had the map out again, studying it as a schoolboy does a paper- backed novel behind his geography.