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  • Anne found me some stationery, and I wrote a quick letter to my family.†   (source)
  • He ordered stationery for the invitations and wrote out a sample for his mother to copy.†   (source)
  • I tell you, I am so burned up at her--tore up my good stationery into five thousand pieces and I've got fifteen thank-you notes for the Junior League to do…"†   (source)
  • Max opens the balcony doors and folds an airplane with hotel stationery.†   (source)
  • I used the stationery from here, so he took a guess that they might know where I am.†   (source)
  • At the stationery counter we carefully chose new pencil boxes.†   (source)
  • For an entire evening she had driven herself to different stationery stores in the town, looking for red envelopes that the cards would fit into.†   (source)
  • There was her stationery, her colored pencils, and her Prismacolor markers (another Christmas present from her uncle).†   (source)
  • It was written on stationery from a Doubletree Inn near the airport.†   (source)
  • That's very fancy stationery you have there, by.†   (source)
  • A crumpled sheet of violet ladies' stationery, a ghost of perfume still clinging to it beneath the musk of age, a note begun and left unfinished in faded blue ink: "Dearest Tommy, I can't think so well up here as I'd hoped, about us I mean, of course, who else?†   (source)
  • Light poured in the lounge's windows as we strolled through the writing and reading room with its wicker furniture and ivy growing up trellises, little desks with blotters and inkwells and Aurora stationery.†   (source)
  • I turned to give the phone back to Alice and found her and Jasper bent over the table, where Alice was sketching on a piece of hotel stationery.†   (source)
  • It was on Cass's thick, monogrammed stationery with matching envelopes.†   (source)
  • A traveler from Germany recalled that simply by turning an electric dial on the wall by his bed, he could request towels, stationery, ice water, newspapers, whiskey, or a shoe shine.†   (source)
  • She was the maiden, and had been for fifteen years, since she'd opened the business, after striking it rich in stationery.†   (source)
  • Inside, on the police chief's stationery, was a handwritten note.†   (source)
  • We had some gung-ho stationery, the kind with a picture of GIs jumping out of a chopper on it.†   (source)
  • They carried USO stationery and pencils and pens.†   (source)
  • As Hiro pulls it from her hand, the hypercard changes from a jittery two-dimensional figment into a realistic, cream-colored, finely textured piece of stationery.†   (source)
  • The roofs of the station wagons were loaded down with carefully secured suitcases full of light and heavy clothing; with boxes of blankets, boots and shoes, stationery and books, sheets, pillows, quilts; with rolled-up rugs and sleeping bags; with bicycles, skis, rucksacks, English and Western saddles, inflated rafts.†   (source)
  • So we went into Gold's Stationery and bought Jimmy a greeting card.†   (source)
  • Stationery for a writer, and a writer's wife who's maybe angling for a love letter or two.†   (source)
  • I go to the desk and get some of the lodge stationery.†   (source)
  • Propped on the table I found a long, businesslike letter from the summer school and a thin blue letter on leftover Yale stationery, addressed to me in Buddy Willard's lucid hand.†   (source)
  • He pointed at a teetering pile of pih stationery that an assistant had brought from Boston.†   (source)
  • The frame could have been bought in camera shops or stationery stores the world over.†   (source)
  • Percy thought he might bring out his piece of firewood, but instead he produced a thin paperback book and a note on red stationery.†   (source)
  • Everyone wounded at Sterling High received a letter from the president of the United States, crisp White House stationery commending them on their bravery.†   (source)
  • I even have some stationery with American letterhead on it.†   (source)
  • Inside, written in a beautiful, flowing script on expensive bone-colored stationery was one line.†   (source)
  • It must have been the hotel stationery.†   (source)
  • The stationery, with its picture of a sailing ship in the upper right hand corner, was beginning to discolor in places, fading slowly with the passage of time.†   (source)
  • Hallucinogens were mailed in on drug-laced stationery.†   (source)
  • Beyond the shelter along the street below were stores—all closed now: newsstands, coffee shops, stationery shops, but no houses.†   (source)
  • As soon as he'd settled in his room, a dazzled John Bradley grabbed a sheet of Waldorf stationery and dashed off a note home: Dear Mom, Dad & all, We just arrived at New York and look where we're hanging our hats.†   (source)
  • She wrote to my father in Israel almost every day on expensive French stationery, and when she ran out of that she wrote to him on graph paper torn out of a notebook.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Daneeka was overjoyed and wept irrepressibly with relief and kissed the crinkled, grubby tissue of V-mail stationery a thousand times.†   (source)
  • Everyone needs stationery.†   (source)
  • So all of a sudden, I ran like a madman across the street—I damn near got killed doing it, if you want to know the truth—and went in this stationery store and bought a pad and pencil.†   (source)
  • He was so focused that he crumpled the paper, not noticing that atop the stationery was the Great Seal of the United States of America.†   (source)
  • He then checked for broken bones-the right arm and the left leg were candidates-and with stolen stationery from a hotel he had never heard of from the capo's pocket, he used the guard's pen to write out his diagnosis.†   (source)
  • P.S. Felicia got a job selling stationery at El Encanto, where I used to work.†   (source)
  • There were dozens of papers with complex numerical and alchemical figuring on them, and even a piece of stationery that began My beautiful one in Sebastian's cramped handwriting.†   (source)
  • And look at this office stationery — it has a little drawing of the building.†   (source)
  • Max fumbled for words as she handed him a little unsealed envelope of pretty stationery "Uh, thanks," he finally said, turning the envelope over in his hands.†   (source)
  • He never lifts a finger around the house, just sits in his store all day; a lousy little two-bit stationery store-can it compare in importance with the book I'm writing?†   (source)
  • My mother sold stationery on the third floor.†   (source)
  • They'd chipped in to give Miri a going-away present from Oakley's, a double box of stationery with a western motif—cowboys, cacti, broncos—decorating the lower-right-hand corner of each sheet, plus an Esterbrook pen in pastel green, with a bottle of green ink, exactly what she'd been hoping someone would give her for Hanukkah.†   (source)
  • He sits at his father's desk, scrawling away importantly on the office stationery with a fat black fountain pen.†   (source)
  • They have barber shops, bakeries, watchmakers, stationery stores, everything.†   (source)
  • Was piece of Adam Selene's business stationery: SELENE ASSOCIATES LUNA CITY Investments Office of the Chairman Old Dome —and under that was typed Home, by Adam Selene, etc. Any fingerprints were added after it left us.†   (source)
  • She tried smaller shops — bookshops, stationery stores, gift boutiques.†   (source)
  • She meant to do it; she had even written letters, in the evenings, on Stephanie's pink stationery at the little table in the kitchen they all shared.†   (source)
  • On the table was some official stationery in neat stacks, an orderly collection of pens and pencils, a cumbersome black office typewriter with the emblazoned trademark of Adler.†   (source)
  • In the garden house the lights commence to come up; ANNIE, haggard at the table, is writing a letter, her face again almost in contact with the stationery; HELEN, apart on the stool, and for the first time as clean and neat as a button, is quietly crocheting an endless chain of wool, which snakes all around the room.†   (source)
  • We used the Lamar Life stationery, which carried on its letterhead an oval portrait of Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, for whom the Company had been named: a Mississippian who had been a member of Congress, Secretary of the Interior under Cleveland, and a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, a powerful orator who had pressed for the better reconciliation of North and South after the Civil War.†   (source)
  • I know his name because he signed it a number of times on hotel stationery, each signature with a slightly different slant.†   (source)
  • In Richmond he plunged into action by ordering stationery.†   (source)
  • She went to the desk and opened the drawer where, in an old school satchel, she kept the Branch stationery and the dues stamps.†   (source)
  • Also, the scrapbooks we keep of thank-you's on White House stationery, time-to-time communications from California and Borneo, the knife grinder's penny post cards, make us feel connected to eventful worlds beyond the kitchen with its view of a sky that stops.†   (source)
  • After his shower, he put his dirty clothes in his crate and got out his box of stationery.   (source)
  • He put the piece of stationery back in the box, then got up and followed the boys out to the tables.   (source)
  • Stanley slipped it back into the stationery box.   (source)
  • He returned to his tent, put his duty clothes in his crate, got out his pen and box of stationery, and headed to the rec room.   (source)
  • Stanley Yelnats was the only passenger on the bus, not counting the driver or the guard The guard sat next to the driver with his seat turned around facing Stanley A rifle lay across his lap Stanley was sitting about ten rows back, handcuffed to his armrest His backpack lay on the seat next to him It contained his toothbrush, toothpaste, and a box of stationery his mother had given him.   (source)
  • She'd written in purple ink, on hotel stationery: The Red Rambler Inn, Tucson, Arizona.†   (source)
  • It was a single piece of lime green stationery.†   (source)
  • Dear Park, Eleanor wrote on a clean sheet of stationery.†   (source)
  • The binder is just a cheap unmarked one bought from a stationery store.†   (source)
  • I remember him reciting a poem at our nika from a scrap of hotel stationery paper.†   (source)
  • After a while, I got up, dressed, found the Hotel Filosoof stationery, and wrote him a love letter:†   (source)
  • There is no calculator, and so they add up the figures on numerous sheets of the hotel stationery.†   (source)
  • My eye fell on a blank page of the hotel stationery on the desk.†   (source)
  • Instead I opened the desk and found a folder of hotel stationery.†   (source)
  • She opened the grapefruit box and flipped through her stationery.†   (source)
  • Checked the address on the piece of stationery paper in my palm.†   (source)
  • Eleanor's favorite stationery, watercolor paintings of fairies and flowers.†   (source)
  • I remembered him reciting a poem at our nika from a scrap of hotel stationery paper.†   (source)
  • Eleanor climbed up onto her bunk bed and got out her stationery box.†   (source)
  • "I-Imm," said David, scanning the folded pieces of stationery.†   (source)
  • Unfolding the stationery, he gazed at his classmate's graceful script.†   (source)
  • He went back inside, found the hotel stationery and took three sheets back to the balcony.†   (source)
  • The desk had a slew of pigeonholes above the work surface; in one was a box of stationery.†   (source)
  • I wrote a note out on my stationery inviting him to watch a movie with me tonight.†   (source)
  • He put a five hundred franc note between the folded stationery and sealed the envelope.†   (source)
  • Reaching inside the envelope, he retrieved a folded sheet of stationery.†   (source)
  • From the official stationery, Max saw they were class schedules.†   (source)
  • The stationery had been a gift from Catherine, and he used it only when he wrote to her.†   (source)
  • He had a stationery store," the Milanese said.†   (source)
  • She busied herself with them, using a sheet of stationery from our hotel.†   (source)
  • There was one remaining—a brown envelope containing a folded sheet of faded stationery.†   (source)
  • The enclosed letter was on the stationery of a Jeremy S. MacMillan, Solicitor.†   (source)
  • Richter sighed and jotted a note on a piece of stationery.†   (source)
  • The letter was from Venice, on the stationery of the Hotel Magenta.†   (source)
  • Another was from the coach at college—on plain stationery and signed in a scrawl.†   (source)
  • Hopkins had obviously decided I was not worth wasting much stationery on.†   (source)
  • It would cost a lot of money, he said—about twenty signs had been made, not to mention all the business cards and stationery—and besides, all the new clients were paying their bills.†   (source)
  • You'll say that while you were traipsing through the woods lighting firecrackers you were simultaneously hacking into the faculty network and printing out false progress reports on school stationery?†   (source)
  • She lived on the opposite side of Jefferson Park, a mile away from me, in a nice condo on top of a stationery store—the same block the dead guy had lived on, actually.†   (source)
  • I opened the envelope, pulled out a thick sky-blue piece of paper—Amy's signature stationery—folded once.†   (source)
  • In sixth grade Chris liked stationery and sleepovers and staying up all night watching John Hughes movies, just like me.†   (source)
  • He continued routing his phone calls through Mercer House and dictating letters that were typed at home on his engraved stationery.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus borrowed some stationery from the neighbors and wrote back to the Chairman that since he had already been admitted to the Committee on Analysis of Ideas and Study of Methods he would have to remain there.†   (source)
  • Pouring himself a glass of brandy and taking a good swallow, he sat down at the Grand Duke's desk and wrote five letters on the hotel's stationery.†   (source)
  • The other wooden building had been a stationery store in 1966; now it was a health food store and tanning salon.†   (source)
  • I threw away shelf paper, faded stationery, manuscripts of articles I'd written, galley proofs of the same articles, the journals in which the articles were printed.†   (source)
  • She'd told Mae this during her first rental, and told everyone this story, which Marion assumed was amusing, that she'd made money selling stationery and opened a kayak and paddle-board rental operation.†   (source)
  • He examines the room, opening drawers and pulling out the stationery, opening the minibar, reading the contents of the room service menu, though he is not at all hungry.†   (source)
  • Williams followed up each call with a short note, dictated over the phone to Mercer House and typed on his engraved personal stationery—"It was good talking to you today.†   (source)
  • At the end of Year One's unexpectedly wrenching treasure hunt, Amy presented me with a set of posh stationery, my initials embossed at the top, the paper so creamy I expected my fingers to come away moist.†   (source)
  • The oldest of the address books, bought twenty-eight years ago at a stationery store in Harvard Square, has a pebbly black cover and blue pages, bound together by a rubber band.†   (source)
  • He looked at the stationery.†   (source)
  • In New York, I had friends with all those kinds of businesses—they liked to be able to say they worked, even though they only did the little stuff that was fun: Name the cupcake, order the stationery, wear the adorable dress that was from their very own store.†   (source)
  • I'll give him his present—the monogrammed stationery he's been wanting from Crane & Co. with the clean sans-serif font set in hunter green, on the thick creamy stock that will hold lush ink and his writer's words.†   (source)
  • The present was wrapped in stationery.†   (source)
  • 1 could have killed her when I found the confirmation card in my mailbox, all official on pink Lakeview Mall stationery.†   (source)
  • There were torn scraps and pages from small notebooks and scissored pieces of stationery on which he had jotted down the pictures and words that exploded in his head.†   (source)
  • He could have been sharpening pencils in the stationery department or he could have been a secret agent in China.†   (source)
  • Wedged against the wall beneath the bed was a small stationery box, and Adrienne set it on the pillow beside her.†   (source)
  • He had the directions written on hotel stationery and he kept the page on the seat next to him, snatching a look every ten seconds.†   (source)
  • Without speaking, he handed Colin a note written on stationery embossed with the words HOLLIS P. WELLS / CEO & PRESIDENT, GUTSHOT TEXTILES:†   (source)
  • "Your signature, please," said the official, holding out a sheet of Gemeinschaft stationery with two blank lines centered in the middle of the page.†   (source)
  • If Lissa wasn't already glum about starting college post-Adam, this letter-written on pink stationery in silver ink, and spewing forth glitter when she pulled it from the envelope-had pretty much done her in.†   (source)
  • He grabbed a piece of hotel stationery, jotted down some notes, and handed it to one of the Athena guys.†   (source)
  • Immediately upon hearing of Sukeena's treatment, her predicament, I wrote my husband a brief note upon my personal stationery and had it delivered by Yvonne, a woman I trust implicitly.†   (source)
  • Instead of answering, Adrienne lifted the lid of the stationery box, From inside, she pulled out a piece of paper that looked to Amanda as if it had been torn from a student's notebook.†   (source)
  • She sat down at the little desk in the kitchen, took out a piece of blank stationery, and wrote: Dear Mr. Gursky, I am very sorry to say that my husband, Zvi, is too ill to reply himself.†   (source)
  • The fraudulent weapon of sarcasm now seemed to sound less effective than ever, but it was Dr. Stadler's only weapon: "Why did you find it necessary to send me messages on official stationery worded in a style proper, I'm sure, for Army"-orders, he was about to say, but didn't-"communications, but certainly not for scientific correspondence?"†   (source)
  • She's staring at me with pink cheeks, as though I've caught her stealing pens from the stationery cupboard.†   (source)
  • At number 261 he found a shop named Tuzhang Menshibu, translated as the Seal Engraving Store, where he selected the most officiallooking stationery he could find.†   (source)
  • Later that night, Theresa wrote out the beginning of the column in longhand on some stationery she found in the desk drawer in the den.†   (source)
  • He folded the stationery, inserted it into an envelope, holding the flap open as he reached for his billfold.†   (source)
  • There's a new range of leopard-print stationery that I haven't seen before, and for a moment I'm almost tempted to linger.†   (source)
  • – Cooper Max exhaled with relief and turned to the second letter, whose peach stationery and graceful script were very familiar.†   (source)
  • He opened the drawer, took out stationery, picked up the ballpoint pen and wrote the words: It's over.†   (source)
  • I have Venetian stationery and Florentine boxes, and enough stamps to last for twenty years-if I live, if I don't get a disease of the liver, or a stroke, or something like that.†   (source)
  • In the drawer, he found the stationery he always used when his mind was conflicted, and he sat down with the hopes of putting his thoughts into words.†   (source)
  • It took him two days to buy fancy stationery, compose the fruity language in which to say yes, and get Orfeo to write it out with as many as possible of the curlicues and flounces that Alessandro usually tried to avoid.†   (source)
  • Bourne stood by the desk; he put down the pen and studied the words he had written on a dead woman's stationery.†   (source)
  • This was no child's stationery.†   (source)
  • What about your stationery?†   (source)
  • -pieces of the stationery.†   (source)
  • He handed the stationery back to the receptionist, who studied it, rose from the chair, and gestured to a row of narrow doors with frosted glass panels.†   (source)
  • Secured in place was another sheet of stationery, but instead of two blank lines there were ten, starting below the letterhead and extending to within an inch of the bottom border.†   (source)
  • He used her stationery-†   (source)
  • My first morning—a Saturday—I rose late and strolled over to a stationery store on Flatbush Avenue and bought two dozen Number 2 Venus Velvet pencils, ten lined yellow legal pads and a "Boston" pencil sharpener, which I got permission from Yetta to screw to the frame of my bathroom door.†   (source)
  • It was on a very expensive piece of stationery and written in a woman's hand.†   (source)
  • His father had owned a stationery store in Stanton.†   (source)
  • It was a sheet of hotel stationery—the Hotel Moncastello— dated August 3,1915.†   (source)
  • They were not very good letters but I hoped their being on Crillon stationery would help them.†   (source)
  • He liked to see his name on the firm's stationery.†   (source)
  • Francie read them all avidly, then sold them at half price to the neighborhood stationery store and put the money in Mama's tin-can bank.†   (source)
  • She saved carefully all his letters—written on his heavy slick business stationery in the huge Gothic sprawl of his crippled right hand.†   (source)
  • That night I tried to write Jack a note on hotel stationery but tore it up because the pen scratched and I couldn't think of anything to say anyway.†   (source)
  • Nothing else had been taken, neither his phylacteries, nor his clock, nor his stationery, nothing except his pointers.†   (source)
  • She reached behind one of the boxes that had served as chairs and brought out a stationery box, old and soiled and cracked at the corners.†   (source)
  • On amber undulant limbs she walked slowly up the aisle past perfume, stationery, rubber goods, and toilet preparations, pausing at the cigar counter to pay her check.†   (source)
  • My correspondents, a number of whom used elegant stationery and sported tidewater addresses, maintained a network of communications that extended to the detention camps of pro-Nazi internees.†   (source)
  • The delivery truck had not left the grounds, when she was at her desk, writing a note on a piece of exquisite stationery.†   (source)
  • A great many philanthropic undertakings and radical publications, run by all sorts of people, had a single connecting link among them, one common denominator: the name of Ellsworth M. Toohey on their stationery.†   (source)
  • For there was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.†   (source)
  • …the taps of the bathtub, which gushed instead of dribbling like the taps at home, snatching the new wash-rag out of its envelope of oiled paper, trying the rose-shaded light between the twin beds, pulling out the drawers of the kidney-shaped walnut desk to examine the engraved stationery, planning to write on it to every one she knew, admiring the claret-colored velvet armchair and the blue rug, testing the ice-water tap, and squealing happily when the water really did come out cold.†   (source)
  • Then I saw in one of those little miscellaneous shops—news, sweets, toys, stationery, belated Christmas tomfoolery, and so forth—an array of masks and noses.†   (source)
  • In that time he had been able to resign his position as teacher in Homer and take over on shares the management of a small book and stationery store whose principal contributory features were a toy department and soda fountain.†   (source)
  • Along the Third Street side were a Western Union Telegraph Office, the Blue Delft Candy Shop, Shotwell's Stationery Shop, and the Babbitt-Thompson Realty Company.†   (source)
  • 'Yes,' said the Porter, 'I knowed a young gent as used to take down the numbers of every single one he seed; in a green note-book with silver corners it was, owing to his father being very well-to-do in the wholesale stationery.'†   (source)
  • She broke off, for they had reached the stationery department of the Haymarket Stores, and Mrs. Wilcox wanted to order some private greeting cards.†   (source)
  • …side, and somebody came after her with her petticoat, and she lost her way, and was hemmed in by trunks specially prepared for taking to India; next got among the accouchement sets, and baby linen; through all the commodities of the world, perishable and permanent, hams, drugs, flowers, stationery, variously smelling, now sweet, now sour she lurched; saw herself thus lurching with her hat askew, very red in the face, full length in a looking-glass; and at last came out into the street.†   (source)
  • She sweeps a litter of disarranged papers out of her way; snatches a sheet of paper from her stationery case; and tries resolutely to write.†   (source)
  • Seth had not answered them, although he had been moved and flattered by some of the sentences scrawled in pencil upon the stationery of the banker's wife.†   (source)
  • His pillows stuffed behind his back, he wrote on sanatorium stationery about how his scheduled departure had been delayed.†   (source)
  • Carrie passed along the busy aisles, much affected by the remarkable displays of trinkets, dress goods, stationery, and jewelry.†   (source)
  • It contained Anglican books, stationery, texts, and fancy goods: little plaster angels on brackets, Gothic-framed pictures of saints, ebony crosses that were almost crucifixes, prayer-books that were almost missals.†   (source)
  • Eliza ended by acquiring an extremely uncommercial script which was a positive extension of her personal beauty, and spending three times as much on stationery as anyone else because certain qualities and shapes of paper became indispensable to her.†   (source)
  • But, Clyde, among other bits of testimony here, there was that letter found in Miss Alden's coat pocket—the one written on Grass Lake Inn stationery and addressed to her mother, in which she told her that she was about to be married.†   (source)
  • Nice-looking stationery.†   (source)
  • A letter from James Tienappel was included, typewritten, but on his heavy private stationery: his uncle sent his own and his father's holiday greetings and best wishes for a speedy recovery.†   (source)
  • And with this thought in mind, he now scanned more briefly but none the less sharply and critically the various notes or invitations or love messages from Sondra, all on heavily perfumed and monogrammed stationery, which grew more and more friendly and intimate as the correspondence progressed, until toward the last they invariably began: "Clydie-Mydie," or "Sweetest Black Eyes," or "My sweetest boy," and were signed "Sonda," or "Your own Sondra."†   (source)
  • He wrote on sanatorium stationery, taken from an ample supply in his table drawer, to James Tienappel, the uncle to whom he felt closest of the three, and asked him to inform the consul.†   (source)
  • …might contain, the district attorney began opening these and reading—first three from Roberta, after which the reason she had gone to Biltz was made perfectly plain—then the three first letters from his mother, on most pathetically commonplace stationery, as he could see, hinting at the folly of the life as well as the nature of the accident that had driven him from Kansas City, and at the same time advising him most solicitously and tenderly as to the proper path for his feet in the…†   (source)
  • …but delicately considerate telegram (delicate and considerate more in deference to the departed than to the receiver of the message), had reached Hans Castorp as he lay in his splendid lounge chair, whereupon he had purchased black-bordered stationery and written to his uncles or quasi cousins that having been orphaned twice, he now felt as if he had been orphaned yet a third time, and, still more distressing, was prevented, indeed prohibited, from interrupting his present sojourn to…†   (source)
  • On these occasions Mr. Dick never travelled without a leathern writing-desk, containing a supply of stationery and the Memorial; in relation to which document he had a notion that time was beginning to press now, and that it really must be got out of hand.†   (source)
  • For Tom-all-Alone's and Lincoln's Inn Fields persist in harnessing themselves, a pair of ungovernable coursers, to the chariot of Mr. Snagsby's imagination; and Mr. Bucket drives; and the passengers are Jo and Mr. Tulkinghorn; and the complete equipage whirls though the law-stationery business at wild speed all round the clock.†   (source)
  • At the present day, and in this country, as I find by my own experience, a few implements, a knife, an axe, a spade, a wheelbarrow, etc., and for the studious, lamplight, stationery, and access to a few books, rank next to necessaries, and can all be obtained at a trifling cost.†   (source)
  • He thought of opening an anti-slavery reading room in Rochester, and combining with it the sale of some books and stationery; and he wanted me to unite with him.†   (source)
  • But he mollified me by making an oriental bow, and saying—"With submission, sir, it was generous of me to find you in stationery on my own account."†   (source)
  • Nay, an ingenious gentleman connected with the Department, and himself a valuable public servant, had done him the favour to make a curious calculation of the amount of stationery consumed in it during the same period.†   (source)
  • I observed, however, that Mr. Spenlow's proctorial gown and stiff cravat took Peggotty down a little, and inspired her with a greater reverence for the man who was gradually becoming more and more etherealized in my eyes every day, and about whom a reflected radiance seemed to me to beam when he sat erect in Court among his papers, like a little lighthouse in a sea of stationery.†   (source)
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