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The tick of the playing-cards on the greasy table-top, all the sounds came to Montag, behind his closed eyes, behind the barrier he had momentarily erected.

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

In Germany good work began early, because, to supply the demand for playing-cards and pictures of saints, schools of wood-cutters had grown up, more especially at Augsburg and at Ulm.

From Fine Books by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)

Fortune-telling from the lines of the hand or the chance combinations of playing-cards are, in this aspect, on a par with the prophecies of astrologers drawn from the constellations in the heavens.

From Modern Magic by Vere, Maximilian Schele de

After Cherubini’s disappointing visit to Vienna he divided his time between teaching at the conservatoire and cutting up playing-cards into figures and landscapes, which he framed and placed round the walls of his study.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various

In the Spanish deck of playing-cards in the early days, the "Jack of Spades" always held one of these flowers in his hand.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth