night-capped

Satan only could tell what; here was a white night-capped man coming bodily from the grave; here was my own sister Annie committed to a highwayman, and mother in distraction; most of all — here, there, and where — was my Lorna stolen, dungeoned, perhaps outraged.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

The doll, duly night-capped and night-gowned, lay in its cradle; she was rocking it to sleep, with an air of the most perfect faith in its possession of sentient and somnolent faculties; her eyes, at the same time, being engaged with a picture-book, which lay open on her lap.

Villette 2003

Wort, in turn, was ignominiously night-capped by the sheet, for it completely covered him.

The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play Edward A. Rand

A window was hastily thrown up, and the justice put forth his night-capped head, and with more wrath than became his dignity, ordered them off; and in requital for their calling him out of bed in the cold, generously wished them in the warmest place.

The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 Henry C. Watson

At the same moment, Mrs Valentine opened her window and put out a night-capped head into the moonlight, and craning it all round, to see what was the matter, and seeing nothing extraordinary, put it in again, with a slight shiver.

Wilton School or, Harry Campbell's Revenge Fred E. Weatherly

MISS CAREY: (Poking her night-capped head out of curtains.)

Writing for Vaudeville Brett Page

From time to time some Japanese, night-capped in his blue kerchief, opens a window to see who these noisy madcaps can be, dashing by so rapidly and so late.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

So he rapped at a window, and soon a night-capped head appeared, and after some parley the master consented to let me have his equipage.

Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Austin Bidwell

Upon his back, night-capped head on pillow propped, he lay as the minute-hand of his clock ticked towards ten.

Once Aboard the Lugger 1925

One moment, the salt wind was whistling round my night-capped head; the next, I was crushed almost double under the weight of the helmet.

A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools Percy Lubbock 1922