| Mr. Wilder headed upstairs for bed, and Kate wandered back over to her couch, plunking down in it and picking up her dog-eared book. |
| One might wonder why someone would go nosing around a musty corner to buy an old dog-eared book instead of buying crisp, gleaming copies. |
| The yellowed pages were dog-eared and extremely battered, and I replaced it gingerly on the shelf as I went to answer the door. |
| It was tattered and dog-eared, and its margins bore notes in my mother's girlish hand. |
| All four corners were dog-eared, some were torn, but she would have recognised it anywhere. |
| He was reading a dog-eared Raymond Chandler paperback instead of the anatomy text he planned to study. |
