"Note paper" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and the claim too was sufficiently real—only unfortunately it was not a valid claim. So the prince lost his case on the last appeal and the beginning of de Barral's end became manifest to the public in the shape of a half-sheet of note paper wafered by the four corners on the closed door of The Orb offices notifying that payment was stopped ...
— Chance • Joseph Conrad
... usually between seven and eight o'clock. Invitations should be mailed a week or ten days before the date set for the dinner. The hostess may use her own judgment in deciding whether the invitations should be engraved on cards, or hand-written on note paper. The former is preferred for an elaborate dinner, the latter for a ...
— Book of Etiquette • Lillian Eichler
... One by one he laid them upon the table and smoothed them out. Even before he had glanced at the first one, a queer presentiment seemed suddenly to chill the blood in his veins. His eyes became a trifle distended. They were all there now, a score or more of sheets of thin foreign note paper, covered with hand-writing of a distinctly feminine type. The two men ...
— The Box with Broken Seals • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... Thessaly entered the Hall of Music with its golden walls and crystal dome. The Queen of Heaven was reclining in an easy chair, cutting out peacocks in small sheets of note paper. Minerva was making a pencil observation on a manuscript copy of the song: Apollo listened with deference to her laudatory criticisms. Another divine dame, standing by the side of Euterpe, who was seated by the harp, looked up as Ixion entered. The wild liquid ...
— Ixion In Heaven • Benjamin Disraeli
... the invitations to the breakfast or reception are sent on sheets of note paper like that used for church ...
— Etiquette • Emily Post
... Note paper for invitations should be plain, unruled, heavy in texture, creamy-white in tint, and of a size to fold once to fit the large, square envelope of the same size and tint. Monogram, if used, or crests, if they may be rightfully claimed, should be stamped or embossed in white ...
— Social Life - or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society • Maud C. Cooke
... on little sheets of note paper, adorned with flowers, and in cute little envelopes. Flossie and Freddie took them to the ...
— The Bobbsey Twins at School • Laura Lee Hope
... linen rag, no matter how black it is, and put it through the washers, and the bleachers, and the cutters, and all the time it's gettin' whiter and whiter, and sweeter and sweeter, the more you bang it round; till at last you have bank-note paper, and write to the Queen of England on it, if you're a mind to, and she won't have none better. And take jute or shoddy, and the minute you touch to wash it, it cockles up, or drops to pieces, and it ain't no good to mortal man. Jest like folks, I tell ye! and May and her mother's pure linen ...
— The Green Satin Gown • Laura E. Richards
... job-printing office, and that he and his wife and babies had moved into a smaller house where he had to pay a rent of only nine dollars a month—just half of his former rent. This diary consists simply of two half-sheets of white note paper, folded twice and pinned in the middle, forming two small neat books of eight pages each of about the size of a visiting card. The writing is very small, ...
— Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) - Authors and Journalists • Various
... continued to regard him with a smile so serene and victorious that he saw she took his somewhat unseemly astonishment as a merited tribute to her genius. Presently she extended a glittering hand and took a sheet of note paper from ...
— The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories • Edith Wharton
... out a crumpled sheet of note paper before us on which was written something in a trembling scrawl. "For instance, here's a letter ...
— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve
... from his pocket, he drew a sheet of blue note paper, closely interlined, from the envelope, ...
— Life and Gabriella - The Story of a Woman's Courage • Ellen Glasgow
... than one account. It bears no date, save "Beacon Terrace [Torquay], Thursday," But it evidently marks the beginning of acquaintanceship between the two exceptionally, though not equally gifted girls—Elizabeth Barrett and Theodosia Garrow. It is written on a sheet of the very small duodecimo note paper which she was wont to use many years subsequently, but in far more delicate and elegant characters than she used, when much pen-work had produced its usual deteriorating ...
— What I Remember, Volume 2 • Thomas Adolphus Trollope
... I do not like to trouble Miss Denham. Letter paper has to be sealed. These letters must go by the afternoon post: I do not like to rob the poor anxious people of a little hope while he lives. Let me have note paper and envelopes ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... give up the accountancy business—or rather, the law has never allowed either Honoria or me to become chartered accountants, so there is nothing to give up. To avoid any misapprehension she is going to change the title on our note paper and brass plate to 'General Inquiry Agents.' That will be sufficiently non-committal. Well then, as to sex disqualification, a few weeks hence I shall become David Vavasour Williams, and I presume he was a male? ...
— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston
... appeared a veritable printing plant, an elaborate engraver's outfit—a highly efficient foot-power press, rapidly being assembled by Whitie Burns; an electric dryer, inks, a pile of white, silk-threaded bank-note paper, a cutter, and ...
— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard
... little book that she put in the Doctor's hand, simply a few sheets of small note paper sewed together. ...
— Polly of the Hospital Staff • Emma C. Dowd
... paper this is copied from shows how the stores were failing, for the full quarto sheets have all failed, and the journal is continued on note paper. ...
— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge
... affectionately, as the much handled little sheet of note paper, with its queer foreign script, lay in her hand. Then she noticed an inclosure. Yes! There ...
— The Girl Scout Pioneers - or Winning the First B. C. • Lillian C Garis
... be handed into one hand a pound of tea and into the other a pair of boots, a convenience which, after all, is not to be had in all Oxford Street. The draper's shop, carrying the principle further, would not only dress you; post-office you; linoleum, rug and wall paper you; ink, pencil and note paper you; but would also bury you and tombstone you, a solemnity which it was only called upon to perform for anybody about once in five years—Penny Green being long-lived—but was always ready and anxious to carry out. Indeed in the back room of his ...
— If Winter Comes • A.S.M. Hutchinson
... looked at each other, wondering what was coming and the doctor read the half sheet of note paper which he ...
— The Hilltop Boys - A Story of School Life • Cyril Burleigh
... no reply. He reached for his paper knife, ripped open the envelope and drew forth a sheet of blue note paper. He read with a gathering frown what had been written on it. Then he reread ...
— Little Lost Sister • Virginia Brooks
... back of the writing table, a mass of Polly's note paper and envelopes sprawled before him, his head on his hands and his elbows on the table. Back of him paced Pickering Dodge with a worried expression ...
— Five Little Peppers Grown Up • Margaret Sidney
... it, and found a room half library, half study, a pleasant room used to tobacco, with a rather well worn Turkey carpet on the floor, saddle bag easy chairs, and a great escritoire in the window, open and showing pigeon holes containing note paper, envelopes, telegraph forms, and a rack containing the A. B. C. Railway Guide, Whitakers Almanac, Ruffs' Guide to the Turf, Who's Who, ...
— The Man Who Lost Himself • H. De Vere Stacpoole |
