letter-weight

Thereupon he sat down and took up a doll that was sitting on a letter-weight.

The South Pole~ A Day at Framheim 2009

Thereupon he sat down and took up a doll that was sitting on a letter-weight.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

Owing to its extraordinary hardness, this stone was seldom used for architectural purposes; and the lapidary will charge three times as much for working a fragment of this material into a letter-weight as for making it of any other stone.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

A feeding-bottle, a rosary, a photograph of Mr. Kruger, a peg-top, a case of salmon flies, an artistic letter-weight, consisting of a pigeon's egg carved in

All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches Martin Ross 1903

Thereupon he sat down and took up a doll that was sitting on a letter-weight.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2 Roald Amundsen 1900

Thereupon he sat down and took up a doll that was sitting on a letter-weight.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 1 Roald Amundsen 1900

"One moment, sir," said Malcolm Sage quietly, without looking up from an absorbed contemplation of a bronze letter-weight fashioned in the form of a sphinx.

Malcolm Sage, Detective Herbert George Jenkins 1899

And he sat down to his desk, put a letter-weight on the left-hand corner of the sheet of foolscap, and wrote that comical first paragraph of the eighth chapter over which we have all laughed.

Derrick Vaughan, Novelist Edna Lyall 1880

The Count sat there fingering the letter-weight in the shape of a guillotine.

Historical Miniatures August Strindberg 1880

The letter-weight was thrown into the paper-basket.

Historical Miniatures August Strindberg 1880