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"Pigeonhole" Quotes from Famous Books

... quaint old desk, set on a square pedestal with a base of carved lions' feet. This last interested Josie as soon as it was carried into the shop. The top part was somewhat dilapidated, the cover of the desk being broken off and some of the "pigeonhole" compartments smashed. But there was an odd lot of tiny drawers, located in every conceivable place, all pretty well preserved, and the square pedestal and the base were in ...

— Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls • Edith Van Dyne (AKA L. Frank Baum)

... filled the ears, trains rushed by, children shouted from the paved highway, families were seated by open windows in crowded apartments, seeking cool air; the total impression was that of being placed in a pigeonhole in a huge, heated, filing-case, where each separate space was occupied by a family. One felt the pressure of heated, crowded kitchens, suffocating little dining-rooms; one knew that the babies lay crying in their beds ...

— Religious Education in the Family • Henry F. Cope

... stove door is the pigeonhole where all such nonsense ought to be filed away. But just as you please. If any more come to hand, you shall see them. They may amuse you, as they do ...

— Round the Block • John Bell Bouton

... well there was not, but she reached for a small pile of letters in a pigeonhole on her right and glanced over them rapidly. Her sour visage and rasping voice softened perceptibly as she smiled on the little old man ...

— The Alchemist's Secret • Isabel Cecilia Williams

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