dance-card

One sits on a chair, opening and shutting a dance-card with gloved fingers.

Excerpt: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell 2007

The dance-card and program are no longer enjoying unrivaled vogue as they did when our grandmothers 'danced the waltz and cotillon.

Book of Etiquette, Volume 2 Lillian Eichler Watson

She extended a hand on whose palm rested a small and slender white cylinder, no longer and little thicker than the toy pencil that dangles from a dance-card: a tight roll of plain white paper enclosed in a wrapping of transparent oiled silk, gummed fast down its length and, at either end, sealed with miniature blobs of black wax.

The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Louis Joseph Vance 1906

And they tell, while they wipe a tear away with the apron corner, of the consumptive girl lying in her bed longing for the bright world which she would never see, to whom the then Vice-President’s wife brought back from the inauguration ball her dance-card and her bouquet, and all the little trinkets she could gather for her in Washington, to make her heart glad.

XIII. At Home and at Play 1904

Her dancing had called forth the admiration of everybody, and the young men crowded about, begging to see her dance-card.

Patty's Friends Carolyn Wells 1902

"Does one man and a dance-card and three bonbons constitute your idea of a ball?"

Soldiers of Fortune 1897

This was done, and Messenwah agreed willingly to their proposition, and was given his revolver and shown how to shoot it, while the other presents were distributed among the other men, who were as happy over them as girls with a full dance-card.

The Reporter Who Made Himself King 1891

This was done, and Messenwah agreed willingly to their proposition, and was given his revolver and shown how to shoot it, while the other presents were distributed among the other men, who were as happy over them as girls with a full dance-card.

The Exiles and Other Stories Richard Harding Davis 1890

Messenwah agreed willingly to their proposition, and was given his revolver and shown how to shoot it, while the other presents were distributed among the other men, who were as happy over them as girls with a full dance-card.

Cinderella And Other Stories Richard Harding Davis 1890

Messenwah agreed willingly to their proposition, and was given his revolver and shown how to shoot it, while the other presents were distributed among the other men, who were as happy over them as girls with a full dance-card.

The Reporter Who Made Himself King Richard Harding Davis 1890