Dog-eared

The dog-eared pages made the book less valuable.

The magazines were dog-eared.

She dog-eared the page and set the book aside.

Many of the pages in the book that Tom lent me were dog-eared.

She dog-eared the pages of her book.

Never again will I lend him a book. My favourite book is now grease-stained and dog-eared.

By thumbing to the dog-eared pages, she quickly found the items in the catalog she wanted to order.

The pages in his favourite book were dog-eared from years of reading it at bedtime.

There was the huge Italian cassone, with its fantastically painted panels and its tarnished gilt mouldings, in which he had so often hidden himself as a boy. There the satinwood book-case filled with his dog-eared schoolbooks.

To the uninitiated it may seem strange to behold a Harvard graduate stuck down day after day poring over a pile of dog-eared school-books— third arithmetics, primary grammars, beginners' histories of Tennessee, of the United States, of England; physiology, hygiene. It may seem queer. But when it comes to standing a Wayne County teacher's examination, the specific answers to the specific questions on a dozen old examination slips are worth all the degrees Harvard ever did confer.