visiting-book

And Maria was bound, by superior pride and great care in the composition of her visiting-book, to make up for the defects of birth, and felt it her duty to see her father and sister as little as possible.

Vanity Fair 2006

She will be somebody hereafter: she was nobody in Harley Street: that is, everybody else in her visiting-book, take the names all round, was as good as she.

The Newcomes 2006

The Bishopess of Ealing was shocked beyond expression; the Bishop went and wrote his name down in the visiting-book at Gaunt House that very day.

Vanity Fair 2006

His practice was second to none; his visiting-book rarely shewed a blank space; people drove in from miles round to consult him.

Australia Felix 2003

Soon after inscribing their names in the visiting-book at Government House, they received invitations to a ball there, in honour of two men-of-war that were anchored in the Bay — a very select affair indeed: none of your promiscuous May Day crushes!

The Way Home 2003

-- Mrs.A. brought me a sick visiting-book, which I did not refuse: for although

Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York John Lyth

In one of his early letters the traveller gives his friend the following account of the manner in which he passes his day: 'I rise late, read three or four newspapers at breakfast, look in my visiting-book to see what visits I have to pay, and either drive to pay them in my cabriolet, or ride.

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

Dover Street was crowded with the carriages of the nobility, who came to put down their names in the visiting-book.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various

All the other days in the week the great lady is occupied in returning these visits, hunting for obscure addresses, trailing her rich garments over third-story stairs; and it is no uncommon thing for her to have the names of one or two thousand people in her visiting-book, on whom she is to call, provided she can find them.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various

Government House; one of those mixed massed gatherings to which you are invited either on account of your rank, or your unblemished reputation, or the fact that you've had the forethought to inscribe your name in the visiting-book.

Leonie of the Jungle Joan Conquest