He wrote pages and pages, and in the evening threw them into the wastepaper basket.
He spent the time writing letters and tearing them up again till the wastepaper basket was full; then he carried it over to the fireplace and burnt every scrap of paper it contained.
It took him a long time, and twice she saw that he tore up what he had written and flung it into the wastepaper basket, but at last he had finished, and getting up, stalked away.
O'Rane sat staring at the fire until Loring threw a wastepaper basket at him.
He dragged himself to his feet, picked his cane from the wastepaper basket and dealt two echoing blows to the lower panels of the door.
And he pitched the papers at the wastepaperbasket under the sideboard.
Half an hour later he was sitting in the writing-room with some few flakes of torn paper on the carpet between his feet and the partially filled wastepaper basket, still meditating upon this difficult issue of the address.
This is from my beautiful brother," said my father, as he dropped it into thewastepaper basket.
Bob leaped forward, stumbled over a wastepaper basket, and then reached the door which clicked shut just before he could grasp the handle.
Actually Bob didn't know whether he had that power or not, but the words sounded well and the threat did what was intended--the superintendent changed his tone and agreed to halt the burning of any more wastepaper or refuse.
He flung off his wastepaper basket and turned upon the proprietress of the establishment who stood by the door.
He stepped out boldly into the dusk with his pop-gun, followed by the blindly obedient Peggy carrying the wastepaper basket in one hand and the skin in the other.
It was that gasp that called him to a realisation of the fact that he was wearing a wastepaper basket over his head and shoulders, and that a mangy fur rug was tied round his arms.
He was hardly aware of thewastepaper basket thrust over his head.
It is about the only place in the room he could hide in, except of course the wastepaper basket.
The delegato, who was not apparently a man who quickly seized the humorous side of a remark, at once stepped back from the window, and glanced at the wastepaper basket.
He was conveying the sheet to the wastepaper basket as one who piously removes some unsavoury litter out of the way of those who walk delicately.
Angelina be wise she will have a sack in a cupboard from some paper works, into which all pieces ofwastepaper should be put.
Why not believe her when she said she did not throw the burning punk into the wastepaper basket?
She swished the wastepaper basket, again almost full of scrap paper, so that the rays of the sun, passing through window pane and water-filled bowl, struck upon the loose papers.
He seats himself comfortably close to the writing table, and sets to work to collect the fragments of the punchbowl in the wastepaper basket whilst Johnny, with diminishing difficulty, collects himself].
The Wastepaper Gazette, with which I think you are identified, is the only one which has printed your version of the speech, and I must therefore decline to accept your statement.
Strange were the ways of this office; Shakespeare might have sent in prose and poetry, but he would have gone into the wastepaper basket had he not previously straddled.
Letters from insane persons were of constant occurrence, but they were soon disposed of--the wastepaper basket was large and was always at hand.
But if there was the ever-hospitable wastepaper basket ready to receive a lunatic's letters, a lunatic visitor needed to be treated more discreetly.
If the wastepaper referred to above is not within reach, it is well to buy a good printing-paper, which can be cut into the size required.
Some persons have facilities for the use of wastepaper that has been printed on on one side, and, not having been used, is in good order and of equal size.
But you retrieved it from the wastepaper basket, did you not say?
Where is that copy that you retrieved from the wastepaper basket?
That was the letter she crumpled up and put in the wastepaper basket?
