What is "bookstand"

Usage examples of "bookstand".

Moving swiftly but quietly, he went across to the inverted V of an old-fashioned bookstand, which stood against the far wall.

Here on the top floor they'd just pushed the old-fashioned bookstand against it.

He'd noticed it when he'd lifted the bookstand to crawl under it, and realized that it gave the hideout its most essential feature—a bolt hole.

But the smell of salt was enough to distract him, to trigger memories of the security of his bookstand nest and recall the contentment of a good absorbing read.

He was rather curious to see the little place in the rear of the bookstand where the old man lived alone.

He'd noticed it when he'd lifted the bookstand to crawl under it, and realized that it gave the hideout its most essential feature—a bolt hole.

I dropped my bookstand another of the kids kicked them down the concrete sidewalk and into a little gutter filled with dirty water.

Then came from Captain Putnam of the school which the boys had attended so many years, a revolving bookstand, and with it a box of books, each volume from some particular youth who in the past had been a cadet at Putnam Hall— twenty-four volumes in all, each with a name in it that brought up all sorts of memories to Tom as he read it.

I remember wondering if that might be the place where the semi-porno bookstand Sarah had referred to could be found.

Mal walked into a large living room furnished in a floral motif: gardenia-patterned divans, tufted orchid chairs, little tables and bookstands inlaid with wooden daisies.

As he neared the bookstands near the Grand Army Plaza, a bum with a dog that needed medical attention, according to the sign around the dog's neck, struck a nerve, and Gannon gave the man five dollars.