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flyleaf
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Definition:a blank page in the front or back of a book
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he read the flyleaf from the bottom to the top till he came to his own name.
James Joyce. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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On the flyleaf was written ALEXANDER WILLIAM RODERICK MACGREGOR, 1733.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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He let the pages slip past his fingers to the fly leaf where was written with a broad carpenters pencil, “Sam’l Hamilton.”
John Steinbeck. East of Eden, p.563 (1952)
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"My name is on the first leaf. If you can ever write under my name, "I forgive her," though ever so long after my broken heart is dust pray do it!"
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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