I took out some blank index cards and began to work.

If so, why would she stop and read the index cards?

She put down a white index card, and for a while I watched it from a distance.

He moved it to the side, exposing the index card.

He reached inside and took out an index card with a telephone number written on it.

Think of a question and write it on an index card.

He had the whole thing written out on index cards.

He was about to do so when his eyes fell on the edge of an index card.

He should always work from index cards with no more than a word or two written on them.

I took 12 index cards out of my pocket and passed them around.