Papers

Examples

• One of these papers was sent to Major Dobbin,--Regt. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She opened a drawer or two, looked over some business papers, and put them back again. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Where are those papers? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Soon after my arrival in the hovel, I discovered some papers in the pocket of the dress which I had taken from your laboratory. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• A little way within the shop-door lay heaps of old crackled parchment scrolls and discoloured and dog's-eared law-papers. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The swiftness with which the papers displaced the gruesome details of the little girl's death by exultation over the business future of the city was a caution. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The day before he died, he told me where to find all his papers. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I decided that if I found a corresponding crowd there, the only thing to do to correct my lack of judgment in not getting more papers was to raise the price from five cents to ten. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I had been driving and I sat in the car and the driver took the papers in. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I examined all his papers and all his effects. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But each evening, when the boy went home with a bundle of papers that had not been sold in the town, his father would sit up reading the returnables. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The papers were then brought home again, and the boys amused themselves to their hearts' content until the line was pulled down by a stray cow wandering through the orchard. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I never slept more than four or five hours' so that I would awake at nine or ten and read these papers until dinner-time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Two Greek papers and one French one were suppressed here within a few days of each other. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The gentleman in the bag wig laid bundles of papers on his lordship's table, and his lordship silently selected one and turned over the leaves. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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