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.
Hale said he would preserve it as a literary curiosity, and shoved it away in a
pigeonhole. Then we promptly forgot its existence.
I docket it neatly at the secretaire, JONES, and I put it into
pigeonhole J.
Tell Inspector Patterson that the papers which he needs to convict the gang are in
pigeonhole M., done up in a blue envelope and inscribed "Moriarty." I made every disposition of my property before leaving England, and handed it to my brother Mycroft.
Government clerks set up their baize-covered tables and their
pigeonholes of documents in small rooms.
You can rent a whole block of these
pigeonholes for fifty dollars a month.
Amy's chief delight was an Indian cabinet, full of queer drawers, little
pigeonholes, and secret places, in which were kept all sorts of ornaments, some precious, some merely curious, all more or less antique.
It's what you might call a
pigeonhole for people who don't want to be pigeonholed.
Choyce's refusal to
pigeonhole her characters makes them into people most readers will easily care about.
"I suppose people really like to put things into boxes or
pigeonhole people," she said.
I am in the
pigeonhole marked 'no threat', and did I stab Judi Dench with a pitchfork I should still be a teddy bear" Playwright Alan Bennett