telephone book

“When they had six for dinner, like tonight, they moved the coffee table out of the living room into the bedroom, and the kitchen table out of the kitchen into the living room, and the four kitchen chairs into the living room, and the other armless wooden-seated chair from the bedroom into the living room, and John would sit on a telephone book on his regular living room chair, which would still have him lower than everybody else but at least high enough to see his food and enter into the conversation.”

Drowned Hopes

“He'd better take the telephone book and talk to all the Pagets in Southampton one by one.”

A Town Like Alice

“Well, then I looked in the telephone book and asked a lot of people but I couldn't find out nothing except she had an aunt that lived in Wales at a place called Colwyn Bay.”

A Town Like Alice

“She drew on Silhouette's information to use the telephone book and check the Yellow Pages under Certified Public Accountants.”

Cube Route

“He was trying to look awfully casual about the search for the number; he was certain the lady in the corner — Lasko's secretary — had eyes like lasers beneath those heavy brows and hornrimmed glasses with which she could bum straight through the telephone book to the page of K's he was scouring, and then smile meanly and go tell the world.”

the dirty duck