visiting-cards

His very visiting-cards, his cigar-case, and the handle of his cane took slightly oblique inclinations. —

Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef 2007

There had been no other property of value in the pocket-book — nothing but a few visiting-cards and

The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

Names were written over them, sometimes only on visiting-cards.

The Years 2004

He would come in full of fresh little anxieties, full of the cut of a morning-coat, of the shape of a felt hat, of the proper size for his visiting-cards.

Pierre And Jean 2003

In a wee wooden schoolhouse, something put it into the boys 'and girls' heads to buy gorgeous visiting-cards — ten cents a package — and exchange.

Strivings of the Negro People 1969

Another drawer contained writing-paper stamped with a coronet, envelopes, visiting-cards, bits of string carefully rolled up, a pot of paste and a penknife with a broken blade.

Maigret in Society Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989 1962

No titles are used on visiting-cards in America, save military, naval, or judicial ones; and, indeed, many of our most distinguished judges have had cards printed simply with the name, without prefix or affix.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

Although there was something touching in this veneration of a past romance, I think it was carrying sentiment a little too far to leave visiting-cards and photographs in a desolate and deserted tomb, which we have no positive proof ever contained the remains of La Giulietta, as the Veronese call her.

Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux

The inside was strewn with visiting-cards -- travellers from all parts of the world paying this tribute of respect to the memory of the unfortunate girl-bride.

Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux

Those who cannot attend the wedding send or leave their visiting-cards either on the day of the wedding or soon after.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood