"Cardboard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of cardboard are exchanged; after which De Lara, casting another glance up to the azotea—where he sees nothing but blank wall—turns his horse's head; then spitefully plying the spur, gallops back down the avenue—his ...
— The Flag of Distress - A Story of the South Sea • Mayne Reid
... fastness of Color in Sunlight. Cover one end of the sample of cloth with a piece of cardboard. Expose the fabric to the sunlight for a number of days and examine the cloth each day in the dark and notice whether the part exposed has changed in color when compared with the part covered. Count the number of days it has taken the ...
— Textiles • William H. Dooley
... size to which the bandage-gauze is cut to make endoscopic sponges. Each rectangle is the size for the tubal diameter given. The dimensions of the respective rectangles are not given because it is easier for the nurse or any one to cut a cardboard pattern of each size directly from this drawing. The gauze rectangles are folded up endwise as shown at A, then once in the middle as at B, then strung one dozen on a safety pin. In America gauze bandages run about ...
— Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy - A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery • Chevalier Jackson
... Model Homes were built That left some while ago the bard bored I watched the Nubian lions wilt In imitation lairs of cardboard. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914 • Various
... cap on the lens of a big camera, and with a sigh of relief a man rose from the chair where he had been seated under a cardboard number. It was the photograph-room of Scotland Yard, through which every cab-, omnibus-, and tram-driver, and every conductor has to pass once in three years. "The Yard" is as careful with a cabman on licence ...
— Scotland Yard - The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police • George Dilnot
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