carte-de-visite

To Edward’s surprise, when the general returned he brought with him, not a duplicate of the small carte-de-visite size which he had given the generall—all that he could afford—but a large, full cabinet size.

The Hunger for Self-Education 1921

The consul-general will require of you three _carte-de-visite_ size photographs.

Italy at War and the Allies in the West 1918

Other flat brazen vessels of water, some khatas or "scarfs of ceremony" – narrow strips of veil-like cloth, corresponding in use to the western carte-de-visite –, a few musty-looking tomes of Buddhist literature, completed the equipment of this domestic sanctuary.

With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior 1901

To Edward's surprise, when the general returned he brought with him, not a duplicate of the small _carte-de-visite_ size which he had given the general -- all that he could afford -- but a large, full cabinet size.

A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After Edward William Bok 1896

At that same moment, while Walter Fetherston was preoccupied by these curious apprehensions, the original of that old _carte-de-visite_ was seated in the lounge of the Savoy Hotel, smoking a cigar with a tall, broad-shouldered, red-bearded man who was evidently a foreigner.

The Doctor of Pimlico Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime William Le Queux 1895

The numbers were those upon the back of the old _carte-de-visite_ which had interested him so keenly, and the statement he was reading was, from the expression upon his countenance, an amazing one.

The Doctor of Pimlico Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime William Le Queux 1895

Colonel Brent knew what had become of the _carte-de-visite_, but -- how happened it in other hands than those of Benton?

Ray's Daughter A Story of Manila Charles King 1888

Here slumbered lamp-globes of ground glass, lamp-shades, cut-glass goblets ornamented with gilt bronze, a match-stand in painted porcelain flanked by a child sleeping against a drum beside a dog, books whose bindings were detached, tattered musical scores, a couple of broken fans, a flute, and a small heap of carte-de-visite portraits.

A Mummer's Tale Anatole France 1884

Under them were a short household account, a dry moss-rosebud, and an old pair of carte-de-visite photographs.

Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy 1884

If you should be able to write again, and have a carte-de-visite to spare, may I beg it, that I may form some idea of the friend, “old enough to be my mother”?

The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss Prentiss, George L 1882