What is "telephone directories"

Usage examples of "telephone directories".

Acting on a hunch, she cross-referenced these four to the addresses disclosed by the telephone directories.

One wall was shelved: tattered, leather-bound volumes of statutes and decrees, a handbook on forensic science, a dictionary, an atlas, a Berlin street guide, telephone directories, box files with labels gummed to them - 'Braune', 'Hundt', 'Stark', 'Zadek' - every one a bureaucratic tombstone, memorialising some long-forgotten victim.

Quinn stood in the booth facing away from the street pretending to consult the telephone directories until the machine rang at two minutes after eight.

Someone named Bartholomew had adopted Seraphim's son and named the boy after himself Junior applied the patience learned through meditation to the task at hand, and instinctively, he soon evolved a motivating mantra that continuously cycled through his mind while he studied the telephone directories: Find the father, kill the son.

It's a leftover consignment of German-language books and documents brought over in 1945 Nazi Party publications and reference books and even some ancient telephone directories some of it still in its packing cases.

In a large outer office, the walls were covered floor to ceiling with bookcases, the shelves of which were filled with telephone directories and street guides from virtually every major city in the world.

It also holds a major collection of foreign telephone directories, very useful in finding key telephone numbers to target.

I got through to the operator and asked whereabouts in London one would find exchange 722, general information printed in London telephone directories.

He had had it made weeks before from the telephone directories of Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn by a public stenographer in the Theresa Hotel.

Not that she thought any of them capable of such a vicious trick, but that meant the information was available to anyone who had access to their personal telephone directories and Riley's.