Paper-weight

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Archaic form of paperweight. alt-of, archaic

    "I followed them to my study, and found lying on my writing-table still, with the selenite paper-weight upon it, the sheet of work I had left on the afternoon of the opening of the cylinder."

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"I followed them to my study, and found lying on my writing-table still, with the selenite paper-weight upon it, the sheet of work I had left on the afternoon of the opening of the cylinder."

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