pigeonhole

This man, whose clay was so plastic that he could live in any number of pigeonholes of human existence, she thought wilful and most obstinate because she could not shape him to live in her pigeonhole, which was the only one she knew.

Hale said he would preserve it as a literary curiosity, and shoved it away in a pigeonhole. Then we promptly forgot its existence.

I docket it neatly at the secretaire, JONES, and I put it into pigeonhole J.

Tell Inspector Patterson that the papers which he needs to convict the gang are in pigeonhole M., done up in a blue envelope and inscribed "Moriarty." I made every disposition of my property before leaving England, and handed it to my brother Mycroft.

Government clerks set up their baize-covered tables and their pigeonholes of documents in small rooms.

You can rent a whole block of these pigeonholes for fifty dollars a month.

Amy's chief delight was an Indian cabinet, full of queer drawers, little pigeonholes, and secret places, in which were kept all sorts of ornaments, some precious, some merely curious, all more or less antique.

It's what you might call a pigeonhole for people who don't want to be pigeonholed.

Choyce's refusal to pigeonhole her characters makes them into people most readers will easily care about.

"I suppose people really like to put things into boxes or pigeonhole people," she said.

I am in the pigeonhole marked 'no threat', and did I stab Judi Dench with a pitchfork I should still be a teddy bear" Playwright Alan Bennett