He went to the reference shelf and brought it back.

A significant number of current reference sources are available on reference shelves.

We have a couple of almanacs on the reference shelf.

The next explosion, just outside, was close enough to knock the data binders from their places on the reference shelves.

The city editor thought for a moment and his eyes strayed to the reference shelf behind the city desk.

Today in the library, in the art section, your wife's touching books at random on the reference shelf.

Thereafter it went up on the reference shelf to gather dust in the intervening decades.

The shelf closest to my reach I have dubbed the reference shelf.

Several books this season commend themselves to the gardener's reference shelf, though they make pleasant winter browsing too.

- Henry would you be so kind as to go over to the reference shelf and look up Queen Victoria in the encyclopedia.