card-rack

In the meantime, I stepped to the card-rack, took the letter, put it in my pocket, and replaced it by a fac-simile, (so far as regards externals,) which I had carefully prepared at my lodgings; imitating the D — cipher, very readily, by means of a seal formed of bread.

The Purloined Letter 2006

The real diner-out is he whose card-rack or mantelpiece (I was going to say groans, but) laughingly rejoices in respectful well-worded invitations to luxuriously-appointed tables.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841 Various

In the meantime, I stepped to the card-rack, took the letter, put it in my pocket, and replaced it by a facsimile (so far as regards externals), which I had carefully prepared at my lodgings -- imitating the D---- cipher, very readily, by means of a seal formed of bread.

Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill

In the meantime, I stepped to the card-rack, took the letter, put it in my pocket, and replaced it by

The Short-story William Patterson Atkinson

In the meantime I stepped to the card-rack, took the letter, put it in my pocket, and replaced it by a facsimile (so far as regards externals), which I had carefully prepared at my lodgings—imitating the D—— cipher very readily by means of a seal formed of bread.

The Purloined Letter 1917

I confess, however, that I should like very well to know the precise character of his thoughts, when, being defied by her whom the Prefect terms ‘a certain personage, ’ he is reduced to opening the letter which I left for him in the card-rack.

The Purloined Letter 1917

“At length my eyes, in going the circuit of the room, fell upon a trumpery filigree card-rack of pasteboard that hung dangling by a dirty blue ribbon from a little brass knob just beneath the middle of the mantelpiece.

The Purloined Letter 1917

In the meantime I stepped to the card-rack, took the letter, put it in my pocket, and replaced it by

Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Detective Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

A sort of card-rack (such as Psycho uses at the Egyptian Hall) was placed in front of him, and behind him stood his little granddaughter who played the cards for him by verbal direction.

Some Private Views James Payn 1864

In the meantime I stepped to the card-rack, took the letter, put it in my pocket, and replaced it by a fac-simile, (so far as regards externals) which I had carefully prepared at my lodgings -- imitating the D-- -- cipher, very readily, by means of a seal formed of bread.

The Purloined Letter 1845