I stretched out on the couch and began reading a large, heavy book propped on my chest.

It took me yet another hour to nod off, this time with the book propped so it couldn't hit me, making four hours in all.

He was already in bed himself, reading with the book propped upon his knees.

At the far end of the slope he saw her sitting with a book propped on a small rustic table.

When my father went on an embalming course he saw one fellah eating his sandwiches, reading a book propped against a body.

The duke had his book propped against the saltcellar.

On the opposite side of the room was a wooden table with a battered book propped under one leg.

Llangru, a book propped on his lap, read aloud.

I explained this to my father and he smiled a little, leaning back in our train compartment with a book propped on his briefcase.

There was a book propped in her lap.