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shelf

/ʃɛlf/ noun C2
  1. A reef, sandbar, or shoal.

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“As to the latter part, I have no means of checking you,” said I, “but at least it is not difficult to find out a few particulars about the man’s age and professional career.” From my small medical shelf I took down the Medical Directory and turned up the name.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 5 · C1
I must lay him on the shelf,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 22 · C1
Smiling and kind, you grace a shelf
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 25 · C1
Matthew nodded over a _Farmers’ Advocate_ on the sofa and Anne at the table studied her lessons with grim determination, despite sundry wistful glances at the clock shelf, where lay a new book that Jane Andrews had lent her that day.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 132 · C1

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