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"Pigeonhole" Quotes from Famous Books

... first act was to open the safe to take out a packet of papers he had been laboring over the afternoon before.... The packet was not where he had placed it the night before. He remembered distinctly how he had shoved it into a certain pigeonhole.... It was not there. He found it in the compartment below.... Bob was not easily startled or frightened, so now he paused and took his memory to account. No.... The fault was not with his memory. He had done exactly as he remembered doing.... Somebody had opened that safe ...

— Scattergood Baines • Clarence Budington Kelland

... new session of 1888 Mr. Ritchie introduced his Local Government Bill, which (as Sir Charles had predicted to the Chelsea electors in 1885) was much influenced by the Liberal scheme that lay accessible in an official pigeonhole. The outline given by the new President of the Local Government Board in introducing the measure showed, however, that it fell short of expectation, and Sir Charles immediately criticized the project in an evening paper without waiting for publication of the text. ...

— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2 • Stephen Gwynn

... a quick smile and then realized he was not miserable. A little bleak of mind, perhaps, with Minnesota and what lay ahead affording no glow of anticipation in his mind. But that would pass. No, he had relegated the hurt to a mental pigeonhole; maybe he would bring it out and look at it once in a while, after enough ...

— Ten From Infinity • Paul W. Fairman

... Moving Finger writes: then, having writ, The Product of your Scholarship and Wit Deposit in the proper Pigeonhole— And thank your Stars that there's ...

— Lyra Frivola • A. D. Godley

Words linked to "Pigeonhole" : put, pigeonholing, compartment, lay, place, pose, sort, assort, class, stamp, set, sort out, category, separate, classify, position