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Examples
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Note that in the card-case, there is only a single card.
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Juno cast upon unfortunate Jupiter when she wished to gain her wicked ends upon him — the Baroness smiled; and, stealing her hand into a black velvet bag, drew from it an ivory card-case, and from the ivory card-case extracted a glazed card, printed in gold; on it was engraved a coronet, and under the coronet the words
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Glowry, the surgeon-official, felt in his pocket for his lancet, which he always carried in his card-case, and thought his respected friend was going into a fit.
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I takes out my card-case — it was the Countess as worked it for me — and there was the I.O.U. sure enough, and he paid me thirty louis in gold down upon the table at my bedside.
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"If you ever think of coming to Bukavu, send me an e-mail," he adds carelessly, this time in French, and extracts a platinum card-case from the recesses of his Zegna.
the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006
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And with this Mr. Huxter released his hand from the pocket where his cane was, and pulling off the top of his card-case with his teeth produced thence a visiting ticket, which he handed to Pen.
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"If you ever think of coming to Bukavu, send me an e-mail," he adds carelessly, this time in French, and extracts a platinum card-case from the recesses of his Zegna.
The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006
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He drew a gold card-case from his pocket and, with a touch of the "grand manner," which sat grotesquely on one so deformed, handed me a card.
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So he got his card-case in his hand, and rang the bell.
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Taking out his card-case, he pencilled the following message:
The Man of Property 2004
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