1 |
But How? There were _______ of them |
Scores
Dozens
Hundreds
Thousands
|
2 |
I therefore, had to throw them away or wipe them ______ the map altogether |
Of
Off
On
Over
|
3 |
I was faced with ______ of either evicting the books or else taking rooms elsewhere for myself |
Automative
All-together
Alternative
Altogether
|
4 |
Books of inferior minor ______ gradually accumulated there |
Prose
Novel
Fiction
Verse
|
5 |
I was living in a small and heaven ______ flat in Chelsea |
Kissing
Bound
Kicking
Downing
|
6 |
This difficulty once brought almost within the Shadow of the ______ |
Tree
Rope
Wall
Tower
|
7 |
They certainly die hard and it is sometimes difficult to find a ______ for them |
Bed
Box
Scaffold
Gallows
|
8 |
But it is not always easy to ______ books |
Preserve
Save
Store
Destroy
|
9 |
Destruction not merely makes more room for new books but saves one's heirs the troubles of _______ out the rubbish or storing it |
Sorting
Sifting
Scorching
Scouting
|
10 |
It is positively a ______ duty to destroy it |
Private
Public
Government
Officer's
|
11 |
It is not merely absurd to keep rubbish merely because it is ______ |
Coloured
Torn
Printed
Beautiful
|
12 |
Every worthless volume that is bought finds its way to a shelf and ______ there |
Stood
Stayed
Stay
Stays
|
13 |
But non-bookish people are very reluctant to throw away anything that looks like a ________ |
Book
Cloth
Show
Chair
|
14 |
It is likely that there are those who jump at the opportunity of getting ______ of books |
Red
Rid
Rod
Rude
|
15 |
In some cases, one imagines such indigestibles get into the parcels by ______ |
Incident
Indecent
Accident
Oxidant
|
16 |
People were sending magazines ______ years old |
Ten
Twelve
Fifteen
Twenty
|
17 |
It was publicly stated the other day that some people were sending the ______ things |
oldest
New
Fresh
Uptodate
|
18 |
It says in the paper that over ______ million volumes have been presented to the troops by the public |
One
Two
Three
Four
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