Someone had picked up the glass paperweight from the table and smashed it to pieces on the hearth-stone. From Wordnik.com. [Nineteen Eighty-Four] Reference
From that point on, the card has been a "paperweight" - literally-and those treasured photos were completely lost. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
The paperweight is a great little something for father's day. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
Ten million and you have a ubiquitous communications network into which your "paperweight" is now a hugely valuable doorway. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
She sent a "paperweight", two rotating bronze forms, from her own desk. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Derry's hand lay on it, a "paperweight" that did not move itself off at Blair's motion. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Patriot] Reference
Culum picked up a paperweight that was on the desk. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
"Do you remember the glass paperweight you gave me?". From Wordnik.com. [Falcon's Prey]
As evidenced by the paperweight she hurls at his head. From Wordnik.com. [William Bradley: Mad Men Review: "The Rejected" Is A Routine Episode, But Betty Draper Has Joined The X-Men!] Reference
They pretty much rendered Moe an expensive paperweight. From Wordnik.com. [bard Diary Entry] Reference
The physicist bent over and took a paperweight off a desk. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
This is one of my favorites too, the deer-proof paperweight. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2002] Reference
A few expletives and a paperweight followed Cyril on his way. From Wordnik.com. [the deer leap]
Is there a more useless gift than the paperweight? he wonders. From Wordnik.com. [PRIME-TIME MENSCH] Reference
The paperweight from Papa's desk went zooming past his shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Unlikely Duchess]
I brought you a paperweight just in case you need that for later on. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 6, 2004] Reference
At Christmas I believe I received a paperweight of some sort, if that. From Wordnik.com. [Gabriel Rotello: Ben Hur, RuPaul and Me] Reference
See if that thing in your driveway is turning into a three-ton paperweight. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 15, 2004] Reference
Does it look a little too much like a paperweight for some people's tastes?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2007] Reference
She eyed a paperweight on his desk and mentally weighed throwing it at him. From Wordnik.com. [Purchased By The Billionaire]
Bayh was a paperweight, Kaine too inexperienced and HRC combined with Bill?. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's Email: "I'm Excited About Hitting The Campaign Trail With Joe"] Reference
He placed the paperweight back in its box, snapped the lid down and got up. From Wordnik.com. [Falcon's Prey]
I put the doll back in its spot next to a glass cube that could be a paperweight. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
The closest source was a thick silvery paperweight on a desk just inside the study. From Wordnik.com. [Mistborn] Reference
The red and gray layered boulder looks to be nothing more than a pretty paperweight. From Wordnik.com. [Hello, Out There! The New Science Of Astrobiology] Reference
Suddenly she hated the paperweight more than she had ever hated anything in her life. From Wordnik.com. [Falcon's Prey]
My body more a paperweight, a piece of marble, pink and solid, but somehow not alive. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of a Marriage (2)] Reference
This thing is a powerhouse, as compared, at least, to my expensive paperweight at home. From Wordnik.com. [bard Diary Entry] Reference
Bishop ordered a cobalt blue paperweight, which catches the sunlight on her windowsill. From Wordnik.com. [Thinking Outside The Urn] Reference
It was all enormously flattering, even if Kushner has lost his official Pulitzer paperweight. From Wordnik.com. [Tales From Behind Enemy Lines] Reference
Emily propped her hip on the edge of the desk and picked up a glass paperweight, toying with it. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
Closest to me I noticed a clear paperweight, some small trophy and his name plaque, which read: DR. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Lear: Storstad] Reference
Next to it were several sheets of blank paper and a small traveling clock sat on them as a paperweight. From Wordnik.com. [Unwise Child] Reference
The telephone is right beside the window, and inside, on a desk, the money was lying in an open envelope under a paperweight. From Wordnik.com. [Battling the Clouds or, For a Comrade's Honor] Reference
"Type up whatever you want, and I'll sign it," he says, which causes her to throw a paperweight and shatter framed advertisements. From Wordnik.com. [Janet Turley: The Rejected: Mad Men Season 4, Ep 4] Reference
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