He reached into a pigeonhole of the desk and took out a small dictionary that he always kept at hand.
He decanted another large drink and was about to take a sip of it when his eyes, above the glass, chanced to rest on a piece of brown paper in a pigeonhole of his desk.
Smith snapped a rubber band around the letters and shot them into a pigeonhole of his desk.
The president took a slip of paper from a pigeonhole and wrote rapidly upon it.
Twombley spat and took Larry out of the pigeonhole of his memory--labelled and priced; Twombley had not thought of him in years, as a definite individual.
Every pigeonhole in my mind will be open at your call!
Such things do come unexpectedly in a flash when there is a sudden electric connection with some dusty pigeonhole in the mind.
Perhaps I write about as many as ever, but I pigeonhole them.
He wondered-- Mr. Donald Estey was still trying to pigeonhole the women he met.
A man more in touch with facts than Hilary would have had some mental pigeonhole into which to put an incident like this; but, being by profession concerned mainly with ideas and thoughts, he did not quite know where he was.
Blensop was busy before the safe, extracting the contents of each pigeonhole in turn, thumbing its dockets of papers, checking each off upon a typewritten list several pages in length.
He began a fresh examination, again emptying each pigeonhole and sounding its rear wall without result till there remained only that in which Blensop had placed the Arden jewels.
He produced examinations of preceding years from a pigeonhole in his desk, and inside of half an hour the arrangement was made, the price of the lessons settled.
But before he closed the office door behind him he had seen Gordon place the type-written sheet, neatly folded, on top of the thick packet, snapping an elastic band over the whole and returning it to its pigeonhole in the small safe.
I wish to make a few comparisons," and he took a thick packet of papers from a pigeonhole of the small iron safe behind his chair.
As a master of detail Westerling regarded him as an invaluable assistant, with certain limitations, which were those of the pigeonhole and the treadmill.
Now," says Judson, reachin' prompt into a pigeonholeand producin' a sealed envelope.
