piece of paper

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Noun

piece of paper - paper used for writing or printing

slip of paper, slip - a small sheet of paper; "a receipt slip"

signature - a sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book

folio, leaf - a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)

tear sheet - a sheet that can be easily torn out of a publication

foolscap - a size of paper used especially in Britain

style sheet - a sheet summarizing the editorial conventions to be followed in preparing text for publication

worksheet - a sheet of paper with multiple columns; used by an accountant to assemble figures for financial statements

revenue stamp, stamp - a small piece of adhesive paper that is put on an object to show that a government tax has been paid

paper - a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses

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Presently he noticed as an odd thing that it was undoubtedly out upon the lagoon with some definite purpose, for it was fighting the tide, and sometimes winning; and when it won, Peter, always sympathetic to the weaker side, could not help clapping; it was such a gallant piece of paper.

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While Jones was kissing and mumbling the book, as if he had an excellent brown buttered crust in his mouth or as if he had really been a book-worm, or an author who had nothing to eat but his own works, a piece of paper fell from its leaves to the ground, which Partridge took up, and delivered to Jones, who presently perceived it to be a bank-bill.

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Presently I became conscious in my reverie of a little crumpled piece of paper on the floor.

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Hamel's fingers inside his waistcoat pocket were smoothing out the crumpled piece of paper which she had passed to him.

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and called to Wemmick to give him that piece of paper.

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Sidney," he said, "I want you to find the gentleman whose name I am writing upon this piece of paper.

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Without giving any further attention to Daddy Jacques, my friend took a piece of paper from his pocket, and taking out a pair of scissors, bent over the footprints.

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We also discovered, first some letters, and next a crumpled piece of paper thrown aside in a corner of one of the shelves.

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He went back to his wife, and scowling, and not looking at her, asked his eldest little girl, where was that piece of paper he had given them?

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That piece of paper, as you call it, cost us the hard savings of years, it cost us weeks and months in the bush and amongst the swamps - it cost a man's life, not to mention the niggers we lost.

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But he had scrawled on a piece of paper that lay in the lamplight:

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How did you come by this piece of paper, my good friend?

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