all the vast auditorium was devoutly still, save for the replicated tracings of a thousand loyal forefingers gliding across their Penguin scores.
1998, Reynolds Price, Learning a Trade, A Craftsman's Notebooks, 1955-1997, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 471
First, I read the French in a Penguin selection by Francis Scarfe, comparing it with the old Roy Campbell translation that I bought in 1953 (a college sophomore).
1999, Anthony Rudolf, The Arithmetic of Memory, A Childhood Kingdom Revisited, Bellew, page 32
I remember reading countless schoolbooks and adventure stories by authors like Percy Westerman and G. A. Henty and John Buchan in Penguins with orange covers.
2000, Brendan Behan, Borstal Boy, David R. Godine Publisher, →ISBN, page 71
I had read a bit about him in a “Penguin” by St. John Irvine, a North of Ireland man who was manager of the Abbey Theatre when my uncle was a property man there.
2007, Walter Keady, the dowry, a novel of Ireland, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 37
Kieran was sitting on a milking stool reading a Penguin in the dim light of a storm lantern.