Word: cards
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...little disgusted when I came back from my Thanksgiving holiday, and found no fire in the grate and on the table an accumulated pile of circulars and bills, -a gilt-edged note from my tailor, which I took for an invitation; a postal card from a Sunday school; another with the College arms on it; and the rest advertisements, notices, and what not. The room was cold, dismal, and dusty, whereas I had fondly hoped that my chum would be back before me and have everything snug and comfortable. With the charitable intention of making him light the fire...
...names of noble authors stand in the catalogue as on the title-pages of their books. If it is absolutely necessary for students to be acquainted with the titles of English or French nobility, why not put the author's family name at the bottom of the card, followed by a "vide Burke...
Here I may say that any one, whether holder of a card or not, may use the Boston Library by application for a green slip (not white), on which, by signing his name, the borrower promises to use the book only in the Library building. A white slip entitles one to take the book home. It is much to be regretted that Harvard students are not allowed the use of the second largest and certainly best library in America, - the Boston...
...prove my identity," said he anxiously, and he pulled out his pocket-book. "Here's my card. No, it is n't, either. But - I don't want to wake my brother, you see, - I have my name on my watch, and - yes," triumphantly, "I have my Bursar's certificate." And he put it into my hand...
...think I will wait here for him, if you don't mind; as I was saying, I happened to look round and saw your great shingle on the door, and thought to myself, 'Who can have put out such an immense card?' And when I read the name, I said, 'Can this be little Morris Benson whom I used to carry on my shoulders at the Dwight?' And so I knocked to see; and if it was n't that you were so little I should n't believe you were, for you are as cold as a beastly...