card
/kɑɹd/ verb C2- To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
- To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
- To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding. · to card a horse
He/she/it cards · Past carded · Past participle carded · -ing form carding
Verb forms
- Base form
- card
- He/she/it
- cards
- Past
- carded
- Past participle
- carded
- -ing form
- carding
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The card he had meant to lay upon my body was lying beside his own.
upon the card by the dead body might stand for Vermissa Valley, or that this very valley which sends forth emissaries of murder may be that Valley of Fear of which we have heard.
So does the card on the body, which might have been prepared in the house.
According to the story given to us, the assassin had less than a minute after the murder had been committed to take that ring, which was under another ring, from the dead man’s finger, to replace the other ring—a thing which he would surely never have done—and to put that singular card beside his victim.
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