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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A case for containing letters; hence, a portable writing-desk or portfolio.
- n. In printing, a type-case. See case, n., 6.
Examples
“Excuse me, Ladies; traversing the room, and having rubbed my eyes till I supposed them red, I turned to the women; and, pulling out my letter-case, I will show you one letter — here it is — read it, Miss Rawlins, if you please — it will confirm to you how much all my family are prepared to admire her.”
“And out he pulled a letter-case, and taking out a letter, it is written in answer to one, sent to the person.”
“He took out of his waistcoat pocket, as he sat in his gown, his letter-case, and said, Here, Pamela, read that when you go up stairs, and let me have your thoughts upon it; and that will let you into the affair.”
“So, taking it out of my letter-case, I read as follows:”
“As we were in this perplexity, one of our little boys, who had been playing abroad, brought in a letter-case, which he found on the green.”
“Still dictating, he rummaged in a letter-case and shoved a packet at me; to my astonishment it was addressed in my wife's simpleton scrawl, and I'd have pocketed it, but Elgin waved me peremptorily to read it, so I did, while he went on dictating full spate.”
“So he sat down as best he could with all that he carried, and extracted a letter-case from an inside pocket.”
“Aunt Emily reopened hostilities on my birthday with a purple satin letter-case embroidered with a sprig of rosemary and the word”
“At last, driven to the wall, she threw a nice morocco letter-case into my lap, saying:”
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
“I will read to you first, however, a memorandum of Mr. De Berenger's, in a little book, which was found in his letter-case; from this he appears to have written on the 1st of March, a letter to "C. J." which I take to be”
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