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The space he built looks more cheerful than the historic fluorescents and business-cards motifs at places like Wo Hop, and more low-key than the dragons and sparkling crystals at the old Jing Fong.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2022

The article ends thus: “If Moses had been raised in Massachussetts he would have been wanted to take a camera or some business-cards up Sinai.”

From Shakespeare's Bones by Ingleby, C. M. (Clement Mansfield)

Presents are made to the Boffin servants, and bland strangers with business-cards meeting said servants in the street, offer hypothetical corruption.

From Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles