Literary backing of a kind

Usage examples of bookends.

Despite the differences in their backgrounds and physical appearance, as boys they had been like bookends, always together.

Between brass bookends, each a miniature bust of Shakespeare, are the novels she collects at yard sales.

At her desk beneath the Shakespeare bookends, Tessie wrote back faithfully, if not entirely truthfully.

Now that they had made a complete circuit they saw that the buildings were like bookends on a broad shelfno booksand the shelf surrounded by greenery.

Or were you of a mind to convert them all to floor lamps and bookends, huh?

Betsy had boarded the train wearing her plain and everyday striped cotton boxer shorts, her T-shirt with the sunflowers stenciled on the front and back, her Roman espadrilles laced up to her knees, and a knapsack slung over her back, its canvas sides strained by her Dante and Beatrice bookends, her alabaster horse, and her treasure box, plus a stone she had grubbed from the foundation landscaping as her mother was hustling her out to the taxi waiting at the curb in front of their house.