“It is a weighty tome which is stimulating and challenging to read but is, in the end, disappointing.”

“The catchy title and cover art attracted many to a tome that otherwise would have been considered way too abstruse to bother with.”

“If she's not interested before you give her a huge tome like that she'll take one look at it and use it for a doorstop.”

“Tables were piled with textbooks for homeschoolers, tomes denouncing evolution, booklets waxing nostalgic for the antebellum South.”

“Heavy tomes covered much of the walls but he only ran a hand over a few of the calfskin covers.”

“Growling irritably to himself, he quickly scanned through a few pages of the history tomes and documents but they proved to be dry streams.”