card indexes
- plural of card index.
Example Sentences
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I fancy I have been caught by one of those card-indexes.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920. by Various
He left her there when he went away that afternoon, a rather downcast young figure, piling up records and card-indexes, and following him to the door with worshiping, anxious eyes.
From Dangerous Days by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
Temporary flexes brought down electric light from a stained glass dome to illuminate card-indexes and pigeon-holes and piles of letters.
From The Pretty Lady by Bennett, Arnold
There there were card-indexes of all the people within the district and of their needs.
From My Four Years in Germany by Gerard, James W. (James Watson)
