On the left was a shelf containing all manner of expensive objects.

The shelves contain books on theology and religious history.

Each shelf and cabinet contains some part of me.

I enter my library, close my eyes, and walk to certain shelves containing only books on history.

In each were long rows of shelves, ten feet high, containing small wire cages.

His eyes sped around the room, stopping at the shelf containing the model submarine.

The best known are displayed in a glass box of 30 cubicles; shelves contain dozens more.

"It's too easy these days to blame athletes for everything," said Schapiro, whose office shelves contain not just books but also a football.

Its broad shelves contained more books, all hand-copied of course, than I had ever seen before in my entire non-bookish life.

First, I need to cover my tracks, he thought, glancing around the dark room, at the rows of shelves containing the coffins.