"I may thank the Bible," replied Cubby; "for the auld ane I ance had, an' whilk I sauld for half-a-crown to Geordie Bookless o' Dumfries, kept me and Jeannie livin for five weeks-sae I hae naething to say against that guid buik; but I haena been able to buy a second.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton
It was a story dealing with the elaborately tangled love affairs of a surpassingly uninteresting couple, and even in his almost Bookless state Comus had not been able to plough his way through more than two-thirds of its dull length; bound up with the cover, however, were some pages of advertisement, and these the exile scanned with a hungry intentness that the romance itself could never have commanded.
"The Unbearable Bassington"
Saki
We were too young and full of hope for fear or regret, but not too young to look forward with eager enthusiasm to the wonderful schoolless Bookless American wilderness.
"The Story of My Boyhood and Youth"
John Muir