pigeon-holing

Updated: June 2, 2025

And hence it is that this masterpiece of ballad minstrelsy is, as has been said, so confounding to the "pigeon-holing" mind. The next most famous poem of this or indeed of any period of Coleridge's life is the fragment of Christabel, which, however, in spite of the poet's own opinion on that point, it is difficult to regard as "a more effective realisation" of the "natural-supernatural" idea.

H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill - English Men of Letters: Coleridge

God grant its directing minds corresponding energy and wisdom. Red Tape and the Soldier's Widow Pigeon-holing at Head-Quarters and Weeping at the Family Fireside A Pigeon-hole General Outwitted Fishing for a Discharge The Little Irish Corporal on Topographical Engineers Guard Duty over a Whiskey Barrel. , Penna., Nov. , 1862.

William H. Armstrong - Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals: As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac

My theory of the unconscious does not lead to universal unconsciousness, but only to pigeon-holing and putting by. We shall always get new things to worry about. If I thought that by learning more and more I should ever arrive at the knowledge of absolute truth, I would leave off studying. But I believe I am pretty safe. Reproduction and Memory

Samuel Butler - The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

Reconnoissance concluded. What we Saw and What we didn't See, and what the Good Public Read Pigeon-hole Generalship and the Press The Preacher Lieutenant and how he Recruited Comparative Merits of Black Union Men and White Rebels A Ground Blast, and its effect upon a Pigeon-hole General Staff Officers Striking a Snag in the Western Virginia Captain Why the People have a right to expect active Army Movements Red Tape and the Sick List Pigeon-holing at Division Head-quarters.

William H. Armstrong - Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals: As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac

Then she resumed her work pigeon-holing the morning's mail. One was from Keep & Co., judging from the address in the corner, and was directed to Maria Furgusson, care Miss Skitson a thick, heavy letter. This she laid aside. "Yes, a big one," she called from the window as she passed it out to that young woman five minutes later. "About the stock, isn't it!"

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Abijah's Bubble

The driver protested, and the wagon guards said that it could not be taken without an order; but it was after three, and old Pigey ripped and swore that his order was as good as anybody's, and the guards were frightened enough to let our boys roll out two barrels. No pigeon-holing on a whiskey scent!

William H. Armstrong - Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals: As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac