"The mind of Wang-san is only comparable with a wastepaper basket," exclaimed the visitor harshly; "and Yin Ho is in reality as dull as split ebony.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc
Some of the results were really very humorous and witty, but I am afraid they were wasted on the Bosche, and I have no doubt they all went straight into Peters' wastepaper-basket-at any rate, I never heard of a Reclamation having any effect except three days' "jug" for the author of the most offensive ones.
"The Escaping Club"
A. J. Evans
When Hastie, bearing his anatomical plunder, had clattered off down the winding stair, Abercrombie Smith hurled his pipe into the wastepaper basket, and drawing his chair nearer to the lamp, plunged into a formidable green-covered volume, adorned with great colored maps of that strange internal kingdom of which we are the hapless and helpless monarchs.
"Round the Red Lamp Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life"
Arthur Conan Doyle