Personal paging unit

Usage examples of beeper.

With immense relief, Nathan reaches inside, peering down at the darkened beeper display.

He pulls the legal envelope from his jacket pocket and leaves it on the bar before him, stares at it-and clutches, again, the beeper on his belt.

Again it is Errol Santos NYPD with his attendant numbers, home, work, beeper, cell-phone, a play for urgency.

Just as the beeper vibrates again for the second installment, but Nathan, not bothering, rebuttons his jacket.

Clipping the beeper safely to his belt, Nathan presses thumb and forefinger, his messages flying off to wherever they fly, to message heaven, the graveyard of electronically snubbed pleas and particles of undesired need.

Strange was coming out of a massage parlor when he felt his beeper vibrate against his hip.

As he was crossing the street, the beeper on his hip sounded, and he checked the numbered readout: Janine.

Lee looked up and saw a strong middle-aged man in a black leather jacket, a beeper and a Buck knife and a cell on his belt line, with a younger white dude, also in a leather, had a cocky walk, coming toward him.

The beeper went off while I was still a few blocks away from my apartment, and when I glanced down and noted that the number on the lighted display was unfamiliar, I decided to wait until I got upstairs to return the call.

The beeper attached to my waistband went off just as the waitress returned with my iced coffee.

Mike squinted to look at the number displayed on his beeper, which must have been vibrating on his waistband, while I went on talking.

The beeper was going off, so I removed it and saw that it was my office number.

Whoever it was, he knew my beeper number, which was a whole lot more than I knew about him.

The sound of my beeper was usually an intrusion, but particularly so when it erupted at that moment.

I put my cell phone and my beeper into the pockets, and my radio, too.