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Meanings of paper-back in English

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Usage of paper-back in English
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They'll turn up the fellow's packsack or a paper-back book all swollen and bleached out by the rain or snow, or some such.
Night Shift
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Wilson bought an armful of magazines and a couple of paper-backed books.
White Hunter, Black Heart
3
Mary took a paper-backed book from the table and came over to the fireplace.
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
4
A small paper-backed book is now lying upon my desk.
Women's Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards
5
We are living in a paper-backed volume of prose.
Ships That Pass in the Night
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A dozen or more steamer chairs stood in line, strewn with rugs, pillows and paper-backed novels.
Patty in Paris
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There has been a great wave of public indignation against some paper-backed or "pulp" printed matter.
Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children...
8
He's a scout for fair too; imagines he's Apache Jim, the terror of the Navajos, or some other paper-backed hero.
The Pirate of Panama: A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure
9
The House of Books is still there and all the cheap paper-backs were sitting on the tables untouched, can you believe it?
Metro 2033
10
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.
The Day of the Beast
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Other women might speak lightly of five-yard rolls as dressing for stumps, of paper-backs "used in the treatment of large suppurating wounds."
The Tin Soldier
12
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.
The Pirate of Panama: A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure
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She took from her table a thick paper-backed volume, one of the "line" of paper novels the druggist kept to sell to traveling men.
The Song of the Lark