paper-weight

When John Fox came into a country where whisky freezes solid and may be used as a paper-weight for a large part of the year, he came without the ideals and illusions that usually hamper the progress of more delicately nurtured adventurers.

THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT 2010

With a roar of rage, Reich snatched up a gold paper-weight and hurled it into the crystal screen.

Wild Dreams of Reality, 5 2010

At 4.30 he listened with astounded relief to news from the Police that a man had been apprehended and was now helping to explain how his binoculars case came to be crammed to overflowing with used treasury notes, many of them bearing a fresh watermark resulting from the use of a wet beer glass as a paper-weight.

The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

The white man is John Fox, an American who "came into a country where whiskey freezes solid and may be used as a paper-weight for a large part of the year," and who "came without the ideals and illusions that usually hamper the progress of the more delicately nurtured adventurers."

“I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .” 2008

Not something as ultimately useless as a financial entitlement or a paper-weight patch on the justice system.

Thus says the Lord God. . . 2009

Not something as ultimately useless as a financial entitlement or a paper-weight patch on the justice system.

Archive 2009-07-05 2009

He had a pickled brain in a flask, acting as a paper-weight.

Archive 2008-09-01 Chris Perridas 2008

He had a pickled brain in a flask, acting as a paper-weight.

Antiquarian Weird Tales: An Early (High School?) Story by Lin Carter Chris Perridas 2008

His reading glasses sat on top of them like a paper-weight.

The Quickie Patterson, James, 1947- 2007

No mention of the paper-weight registration trick or the multiple judges who found that Blackwell was interfering, repeatedly, with the election.

Electoral College 3 Rogers 2006