paper-folder

Mrs. Montgomery laid in a good supply of wafers of all sorts; and then went on further to furnish the desk with an ivory leaf-cutter, a paper-folder, a pounce-box, a ruler, and a neat little silver pencil; also some drawing-pencils, India-rubber, and sheets of drawing-paper.

The Wide, Wide World 1892

[Page 11] friend Mrs. Harriet Hale copied from her ivory paper-folder, and the Esquimau sled, which Mr. Hale, her life-long friend, drew from a cut in "Kane's Arctic Explorations."

The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air 1888

While Ellen was picking out her seal, which took not a little time, Mrs. Montgomery laid in a good supply of wafers of all sorts; and then went on further to furnish the desk with an ivory leaf-cutter, a paper-folder, a pounce-box, a ruler, and

The Wide, Wide World Susan Warner 1852

While Ellen was picking out her seal, which took not a little time, Mrs. Montgomery laid in a good supply of wafers of all sorts; and then went on further to furnish the desk with an ivory leaf-cutter, a paper-folder, a pounce-box, a ruler, and a neat little silver pencil; also some drawing-pencils, indiarubber, and sheets of drawing paper.

The Wide, Wide World Susan Warner 1852

For a journalist's account, aimed at children, see Ivars Peterson, "Champion paper-folder," Muse (July/August 2004), p. 33.

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For a journalist's account, aimed at children, see Ivars Peterson, "Champion paper-folder," Muse (July/August 2004), p. 33.

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