When the teacher read to us out of a big book with many bookmarks in it, I sat rigid with attention in my little chair, my hands tightly clasped on the edge of my desk; and I painfully held my breath, to prevent sighs of disappointment escaping, as I saw the teacher skip the parts between bookmarks.
"The Promised Land"
Mary Antin
Reference books were scattered all about, some with improvised bookmarks, but mostly face downward, just as they had been left.
"A Breath of Prairie and other stories"
Will Lillibridge
In weaving bookmarks and mats, with strips of different colored papers, the series of forms becomes more attractive by observing the harmonies of color.
"Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy."
Elizabeth P. Peabody Mary Mann