Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 18, 2025
They were to form a permanent bulwark to the Empire, to Spain, and to Catholicism. Barneveld of course could never see the secret letters passing between Brussels and Madrid, but his insight into the purposes of the enemy was almost as acute as if the correspondence of Philip and Albert had been in the pigeonholes of his writing-desk in the Kneuterdyk.
Mail time! Until Saturday morning Ruth and Helen had not realized how vital that hour was when the mail-bag came out from the Lumberton post office and the mail was distributed by one of the teachers into a series of pigeonholes in a tiny "office" built into the corridor at the dining-room door. The mail arrived during the breakfast hour.
From one of my pigeonholes I could draw out a paper and tell you where you lunched yesterday, where you dined the day before, whom you met and with whom you talked, and so it will be until our work is finished." "So long as I know," Norgate sighed, rising to his feet, "I'll try to get used to him." Norgate found no particular difficulty in carrying out the commissions entrusted to him.
So we had a postmistress and a post office, with its tiers of empty, homemade pigeonholes ready to receive the mail. And we discovered there was no way to get any mail in or out! That spring I saw a country grow. Perhaps Rome wasn't built in a day, but the Brulé was almost.
And now the flashlight again, searching the mechanism of the inner door then darkness once more. Five minutes, ten minutes went by. The clock struck again and the single stroke seemed to boom out through the house in a weird, raucous, threatening note, and seemed to linger, throbbing in the air. The inner door was open the flashlight's ray was flooding a nest of pigeonholes and little drawers.
There was the neatly docketed set of pigeonholes containing the proofs of all the advertisements he had issued. Lying before him on his desk was a copy, resplendently bound in morocco for his own gratification, of the forty-page, thin-paper pamphlet which was wrapped, a miracle of fine folding, about each packet of the Cure. On each page the directions for use were given in a separate language.
Dissembling his eagerness, John nodded a greeting in his direction, and, passing over to the corner of the grocery sacred to the Government pigeonholes, asked for the Derwent mail. The portly wife of the postmaster replied that the evening boat was late and that they were waiting for the mail.
Comparing the number of the receipt which Jimmy handed him with the numbers upon a file of little pigeonholes, the clerk presently turned back toward the counter with a handful of letters. "Whew!" thought Jimmy. "I never would have guessed that I would receive a bunch like that so early in the morning."
He carried out, in words, the fancied occurrence; described the lawyer as raving over his undocketed and unargued cases, and the numberless embryos lying composedly in his pigeonholes, awaiting, with praiseworthy patience, the moment when they should take upon them a local habitation and a name; while he, upon whom they so much depended, was fretting with unassuaged fury in the constraints of his prison, and the absence from that scene of his repeated triumphs which before had never been at a loss for his presence.
This man, whose clay was so plastic that he could live in any number of pigeonholes of human existence, she thought wilful and most obstinate because she could not shape him to live in her pigeonhole, which was the only one she knew. She could not follow the flights of his mind, and when his brain got beyond her, she deemed him erratic. Nobody else's brain ever got beyond her.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking