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He and his family kept it as a doorstop until 1802.

Some are just a few pages; others you could use as a doorstop.

But why do you need a special holder for the doorstops?

You're about to get a shiny nice little doorstop if you do this.

"We've got all the doorstops we need already, thank you very much.

Here was a volume of doorstop dimensions about the war and the 60's.

Reed took the lump home and used it for a doorstop.

For three years, the rock served as a bulky doorstop.

At that moment, Gracie was looking more like a professional doorstop.

The idea that a computer is going to serve half its time on the books as a doorstop seems, then, absurd.

Then he went to another door that had been propped open and kicked out the doorstop.

Let the winds blow: there's a new doorstop in town.

You want a doorstop; buy a robot with a thick foot.

"Bad luck hitting her head on that doorstop," said Michael.

He pushed the doorstop against the floor to keep the door open and the lights burning.

He dropped the doorstop over the edge, saw it bounce on the figure.

Can't the driver just keep a doorstop in his back pocket?

Some people have suggested that fruitcakes are best used as doorstops.

I don't ever want to see let alone buy another doorstop."

He released the doorstop and let the door close.

He stepped into the room and toed off the doorstop.

At home, perhaps we ought to convert our television sets into doorstops.

Once again, tomorrow has arrived on our doorstop today.

He pushed through, then propped the door open with an old brass doorstop.

He peered around the door and saw a corpse serving as a doorstop.

Mandy came back out of the kitchen, clutching a doorstopper sandwich.

A doorstop (or door stop or doorstopper) is a tool.

Even so, Norman's doorstopper cannot hope to be as definitive as its title implies.

The time constraints of my current Bookerthon make me particularly prone to groan at the sight of a doorstopper.

Independent booksellers around the country said it quickly emerged as their biggest book of the summer, selling rapidly despite its doorstopper appearance (1,016 pages) and hefty price ($35 undiscounted).

"To The Final Conflict" is a doorstopper of a college paper-a hundred and thirty double-spaced typewritten pages, exclusive of footnotes (unfortunately not included in the pdf facsimile).

Julie Bosman's review on November 19, 2010, in The New York Times said the book is a four-pound, 500,000-word, $35.00 doorstopper more political than Twain's previous works.

The Doorstopper service was introduced in Hobart by Metro in 2001, and operates in North Hobart, New Town, Glenorchy and West Moonah.

He did, and we did, and I had a glass of framboise that packed a hell of a kick and tasted like fizzy raspberry lemonade; and doorstopper fries and a club sandwich.

The latest in what one London critic calls the "subcontinental doorstopper" school of epic Indian fiction, "Sacred Games" combines the ambition of a 19th-century social novel with a cops-and-Bhais detective thriller.

Stop H Stop H provides services to Austins Ferry (Express), East New Town, Lutana, Goodwood, Grove Road, and an East New Town doorstopper service.

Doorstopper, a much requested Video Art installation was presented to the public at the Athens Video Art Festival in 2009, projected on to screening venue entrances at the site in Athens, Greece.

One notes with approval the prominent place given to The Daily Telegraph in the order of daily reading; her 'oldie' taste for a Roberts radio, which she surely calls a wireless, and a telephone heavy enough to act as a doorstopper.

The book providing me the most bottomless pleasure this year, sentence by sentence, was the doorstopper anthology "Farber On Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber," edited by Robert Polito.

That's fair, after all, and I can't imagine anyone having a problem with that... But having a copyright monopoly on Harry Potter doesn't give JK Rowling dominion over all fiction involving magic, coming of age stories, or doorstopper novel sagas.

The North American fiction hit list is familiar enough - The Help is number one, a title which comes in third here, while Room by Emma Donoghue, George RR Martin's latest fantasy doorstopper, Grisham and Larsson also feature.

Stop D serves nearby Warrane, Mornington, Mornington Heights, TAFE Clarence campus, Curralong Street, and a Doorstopper Bus service to Warrane and Mornington Heights.

Stop G Stop G provides services to West Hobart, Mount Stuart, West New Town, Lenah Valley, Florence Heights, Glenorchy via Lenah Valley, and a West New Town doorstopper service.

Also, Jody Rosen celebrates the "doorstopper 20th-anniversary box set" edition of Nirvana's landmark album Nevermind, Chuck Eddy pans Chickenfoot's mostly plodding second record and Alan Light gives high marks to the new comprehensive box set retrospective of Sting's solo career.

This month, the publisher Pearson Prentice Hall is introducing the first thoroughly revised version of "Janson's History of Art," a doorstopper first published in 1962 that has been a classroom hit ever since Horst Woldemar Janson wrote it while working at New York University.