Cardboard

Examples

• We never expect to see around a corner, and if we wish to see through pinholes in three separate pieces of cardboard, we place the cardboards so that the three holes are in a straight line. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He wanted a more homogeneous material than thread, and he began to try carbonizing everything he could lay his hands on, straw, paper, cardboard, splinters of wood. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Through these the conductors were drawn, two half-round copper wires kept in place first by heavy cardboard and afterward by rope. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Their cardboard boxes were wrapped and tied neatly with waxed twine. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He found that the cardboard stood the current better than the cotton thread, but even that did not burn long enough. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• They were wrapped in paper in a cardboard box in my rucksack. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I am cutting her out a Coach in cardboard. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He drew over the picture the sheet of thin paper on which I was accustomed to rest my hand in painting, to prevent the cardboard from being sullied. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The lines were then smeared with ink and pressed on the cardboard. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• If the rotating cardboard disk (Fig. 88) is painted one third red, one third green, and one third blue, the resulting color is white. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It is best to place a piece of hard cardboard under all the sheets while writing. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• One Mrs Veneering and one Mr and Mrs Veneering requesting that additional honour, instantly do penance in white cardboard on the hall table. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet of note-paper. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Where were they standing, on earth, or suspended in some cardboard box? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He drew a small piece of cardboard from his pocket. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• We never expect to see around a corner, and if we wish to see through pinholes in three separate pieces of cardboard, we place the cardboards so that the three holes are in a straight line. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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