Observe that though you studied the ologies apart from the eu's and the gens, your knowledgeonce you have acquired itcannot be kept pigeonholed, for the ologies have intermarried with both the other families.

It was at the back of the desk under the pigeonholes, and the fact that the pigeonholes came close down to the desk hid the secret drawer and the spring which controlled it.

Adams's communication was pigeonholed, and remained in seclusion eight or nine months.

He selected a pigeonhole at hazard, and emptied it of several bundles of letters, all neatly bound with tape or faded ribbon and clearly docketed.

Ever since then I have believed all the stories told me about spies who walked where they chose unchallenged during wartime; for we threea Sikh enlisted man, an Australian disguised as an Arab, and an American in civilian clothesentered unannounced and unwatched the building where every secret of the Near East was pigeonholed.

If it's Farnham's cheque you are worrying about, here it is," he added, drawing an oblong slip of paper from the pigeonhole of his desk, tearing it in two, and throwing it into the waste-paper basket.

"At last," resumed Makaraig, "they were going to pigeonhole the petition and let it sleep for months and months, when Padre Irene remembered the Superior Commission of Primary Instruction and proposed, since the matter concerned the teaching of the Castilian tongue, that the petition be referred to that body for a report upon it.

Upon this they had not reckoned, being intoxicated with the thought that the matter would not be pigeonholed, so they all turned to Makaraig to learn how it could be arranged.

Place N. place, lieu, spot, point, dot; niche, nook &c (corner) 244; hole; pigeonhole &c (receptacle) 191; compartment; premises, precinct, station; area, courtyard, square; abode &c 189; locality &c (situation) 183. ins and outs; every hole and corner.

compartment; cell, cellule; follicle; hole, corner, niche, recess, nook; crypt, stall, pigeonhole, cove, oriel; cave &c (concavity) 252. capsule, vesicle, cyst, pod, calyx, cancelli, utricle, bladder; pericarp, udder.

Opening N. hole, foramen; puncture, perforation; fontanel^; transforation^; pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole, peephole, mousehole, pigeonhole; eye of a needle; eyelet; slot.

laisser aller [Fr.]. scamp; trifle, fribble^; do by halves; cut; slight &c (despise) 930; play with, trifle with; slur, skim, skim the surface; effleurer [Fr.]; take a cursory view of &c 457. slur over, skip over, jump over, slip over; pretermit^, miss, skip, jump, omit, give the go-by to, push aside, pigeonhole, shelve, sink;

" "Every pigeonhole in my mind will be open at your call!" said the Doge, glowing at the prospect.

"Such things do come unexpectedly in a flash when there is a sudden electric connection with some dusty pigeonhole in the mind.

He drew a card from a pigeonhole of his desk and glanced at it.

The books had been piled one on top of another and thrust into various pigeonholes at the top.

Now, most men would have plied me with questions and babbled comments on my proceedings at Scotland Yard, whereas you have allowed me to sort out, without interruption, a mass of evidence while it is still fresh and impressive, to docket each item and stow it away in the pigeonholes of my brain.

"Flicked out through a pigeonhole.

If the men of the State could have known the stern rebukes, the denunciations, the wit, the irony, the sarcasm that were garnered there, and then judiciously pigeonholed and milder and more persuasive appeals substituted, they would have been truly thankful that they fared no worse.

friendly critics who read our story pointed out its defects, and in due time we reached their conclusions, and the unpublished manuscript now rests in a pigeonhole of my desk.

He caused an investigation to be made, and it was at last resurrected from a dusty pigeonhole.

Keep those four niggers up in the pigeonhole.

"The stove door is the pigeonhole where all such nonsense ought to be filed away.

The top drawer could only be pulled out halfway, but then the front of it came down and it changed into a writing desk, with an intriguing array of small drawers and pigeonholes at the back of it, and a suspicion of alluring and unattainable treasures in every separate receptacle.

It unpacks and unfolds incidental illustrations which a modern writer would look at the back of, and toss each to its pigeonhole.