"Paperweight" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... scrawl under a paperweight. He was a man who plumed himself on a gift of accurate divination. Such a belief is fatal. For the third time that day, ...
— The Wheel O' Fortune • Louis Tracy
... I say?" said Blair, taking up the pen, and reaching for the paper. Derry's hand lay on it, a "paperweight" that did not move itself off at ...
— The Boy Patriot • Edward Sylvester Ellis
... Melton," commented Tom, playing lazily with a heavy paperweight he had bought at a curio shop at their last ...
— Bert Wilson in the Rockies • J. W. Duffield
... not his Earthly husk but a note, which Lou finally found on the dresser, under a paperweight which was a treasured souvenir from the World's Fair of 2000. ...
— The Big Trip Up Yonder • Kurt Vonnegut
... smile came on to his lips. He slowly sat down again in the same place in the corner of the sofa, and shut his eyes as though from weariness. The corner of the letter was still peeping from under the paperweight, but he didn't even ...
— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
