To record that they have been hung in the Royal Academy is like saying of an author's books that they have been on sale in a railway bookstall.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
She bought paper and pencil at the bookstall, and entered an A.B.C. shop, where, by ordering a cup of coffee, she secured an empty table, and began at vice to write: "I came to meet you and I have missed you.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
It was the first book in English I ever bought, and to this day when I see a copy of the Seasons on a bookstall, which is often enough, I cannot keep my fingers off it and find it hard to resist the temptation to throw a couple of shillings away and take it home.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson