"Waste-paper basket" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it. It's so long ago. If he thought at all of its discovery it was to doubt any other fate for it than a waste-paper basket or a fire. Anything else was too preposterous. But he brooded a lot over the other. The most terrible results of his foolhardy whim Carl pledged me not to tell him. Says the blame is all his and he'll shoulder it. What little we did reveal, horrified ...
— Diane of the Green Van • Leona Dalrymple
... day, while the rain poured outside, and peace reigned in her mansion. Coming across the postals, she pondered over them, and then put them carefully away in the drawer labelled 'Boys' Letters', saying to herself, as she bundled eleven requests for autographs into the waste-paper basket: ...
— Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott
... that letter was, for having seen it on her desk he had, without reading it, torn it up and thrown it into the waste-paper basket, thinking the less that remained to remind her of the young ...
— Two on a Tower • Thomas Hardy
... he departed to see that Jane, the little maid whom Sarah ordered about, had not, in cleaning the study for the evening's festivities, put his last sermon into the waste-paper basket. His wife looked after him with eyes that ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... creature is up to?' he murmured, as he tore the letter into small fragments, and threw them into the waste-paper basket. ...
— The Grand Babylon Hotel • Arnold Bennett
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