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"Paperweight" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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

... "When Busch had finished his demonstration, he carelessly tossed the device on my desk. The thing skidded and hit my paperweight so that the switch was thrown on again. So now the device and my desk ...

— The Untouchable • Stephen A. Kallis

... glass paperweight up before Ken and asked a question about it. Next he held out a ruler and asked something about that, and also a bottle of ink. Following this he put a few queries about specific gravity, atomic ...

— The Young Pitcher • Zane Grey

... Although it was almost drowned by their overpowering perfume, he detected a faint smell of powder. In one corner stood a large writing-table with papers strewn carelessly upon it. Its appointments were markedly Chinese in character, from the singular, gold inkwell to the jade paperweight; markedly Chinese—and—FEMININE. A very handsome screen lay upon the floor in front of this table, and the rich carpet he noted to be disordered as if a struggle had taken place upon it. But, most singular circumstance ...

— The Yellow Claw • Sax Rohmer

... 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

... 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

... much," said the stranger, "if you don't remember." He paused, then rising, he gloomily dragged his chair slowly beside the table, and taking up a paperweight examined it with heavy dissatisfaction. "You see," he went on slowly, "I killed him—it was a quo'll. He was my pardner, but I reckon he must have drove me hard. Yes, sir," he added with aggrieved reflection, "I reckon he ...

— Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Stories • Bret Harte