handkercher

At last met my Lord Mayor in Canningstreet, like a man spent, with a handkercher about his neck.

Linkspam for 3-9-2009 pepysdiary 2009

At tea, my prisoner got up to fetch her pocket handkercher from the bedroom where the bonnets was; she was rather a long time gone and came back a little out of wind.

Bleak House 2007

I ‘ll give it to my handkercher; and now ’tis here,

The Duchess of Malfi 2007

The theeues thinking it had beene so many duckats of golde, searched no further: then they threw all my clothes in a bush, and hied them away, and as God would haue it, at their departure there fell from them an handkercher, and when I saw it, I rose from my Pallanchine or couch, and tooke it vp, and wrapped it together within my

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

"Well, you can sort of wind yer handkercher around your hands," comforted Isa.

Joyce of the North Woods

He will not draw his handkercher out of his place, nor blow his nose without discretion.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

The kay of the safe is under the door of the linny [1] to de left, and the chalice is in the basket, wrapped in the handkercher.

My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

And giving him many thankes for his good warning, presently takes the Chaine from about his necke, and tying it up fast in a handkercher put it up into his sleeue saying.

The Third and Last Part of Conny-Catching. (1592) With the new deuised knauish arte of Foole-taking R. G.

Do you know, he went up to see her with his red hair plastered down with lard until it was a dull maroon colour; his square cotton handkercher was perfumed with kerosene, and I tell you he was a sight and a smell to remember; but Drew's sister stood it without a word.

Joyce of the North Woods

"My feelings may be overcome," said Peggy; "they generally is in public, and then I'll have to use my handkercher and show my hands."

Joyce of the North Woods