How To Use Handkerchief In A Sentence

Other handy bits and pieces like plasters, handkerchief, aftersun and a needle and thread can also come in handy, and don't take up too much room.
A big Chinaman, remarkably evil-looking, with his head swathed in a yellow silk handkerchief and face badly pock-marked, planted a pike-pole on the White and Yellow
The woman wiped her sweaty face with a bright red handkerchief and bobbed her head in the direction of the coopery. City of Glory
We were also greeted by a large man in rumpled chef's whites and a rakish black beret, a handkerchief knotted jauntily around his neck.
He pulled a grimy handkerchief from his pocket and let fly with a wet honk into the rag, then he looked at them with bleary eyes.

Yes, it's my handkerchief.
handed her his pristine white handkerchief
He is coughing green slime into a handkerchief and the penny drops. Times, Sunday Times
He picked through cards and dice and handkerchiefs until he found three ropes of unequal lengths.
But best of all was the pool: where most villas boast pocket-handkerchief paddling pools, here was a pool in which to do solitary laps before breakfast, while staring out over miles of burnt-umber fields. Sleeping with the Finzi-Continis: Sicily's Madonie mountains
Other useful pieces of kit include a piece of red cloth or handkerchief to tie to the top of your aerial to aid rescuers. Times, Sunday Times
As a little girl I used to watch my aunt embroider pillow-covers, handkerchiefs, dupattas, baby-dresses, you name it.
He took a handkerchief from his pocket.
On the flyleaf were his initials R.D., the letters of the handkerchief, and underneath C.D. freshly written. Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
Because his white batiste handkerchief was hope and fear. Herta Müller - Nobel Lecture
The baby disappears into the unknown vastness behind the handkerchief and to her, her reappearance is a thrilling experience. Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds
Othello's account of the origins of the handkerchief, another example of this discoursal antithesis, combines, in a contrastive fugal pattern, domestic detail and the mystical sublime of an empowering love.
From her purse, my friend produced a freshly laundered white cotton handkerchief.
Men wiped sweat from their brows and then raised their damp handkerchiefs in agreement or protest.
I don't bother to iron handkerchiefs it's not worth it.
After waiting a few minutes longer, the crew hoisted the lateen sail, and Yellow Handkerchief steered down toward the mouth of San Rafael Creek. YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF
That 's lovely, Tom," and Polly found it so touching that she felt for her handkerchief; but Tom took it away, and made her laugh instead of cry, by saying, in a wheedlesome tone, – An Old-Fashioned Girl
Then, in a minute, the Station relapsed into stupor as the stoker of the Cattle Train, the last to depart, went gliding out of it, wiping the long nose of his oil-can with a dirty pocket-handkerchief. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
My nose had started running again, so I was armed with several handkerchiefs and blowing my nose profusely as we entered the dining room.
The fetich is a symbol of the desired person, thus the handkerchief and glove of the woman or the hat of the man. The Foundations of Personality
He removed his glasses and began polishing the lenses with a white silk handkerchief. Times, Sunday Times
Hung - chien pulled out his handkerchief to wipe the sweat away and heaved a sigh.
Cat was worried too, in case Julia started knotting that handkerchief of hers when Mr. Saunders ' back was turned. CHARMED LIFE
One peer at least tied a capon in his handkerchief and tossed it up to his famished family.
A soft, plain-weave linen or cotton fabric, calendered to give it luster, often used for dainty and delicate things such as handkerchiefs, underwear, aprons, and blouses, but it comes in heavier weights as well. HOME COMFORTS
The Frenchman was wearing a knotted white handkerchief on his head to protect him from the sun. Times, Sunday Times
Scotchwoman: “She supposed all her sisters, and she had half-a-dozen, might have been hanged, without any one sending her a present of a pocket handkerchief.” The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Dab the coffee off with your handkerchief.
Eliza took her handkerchief out of her sleeve and pressed it lightly against her forehead to absorb the perspiration.
For a portable inhalant, carry a tissue or handkerchief with you on which has been placed one drop each of the previous essential oils, and inhale deeply whenever possible.
In fact, even using a handkerchief or a tissue at the table to blow, rather than to blot discreetly, would be offensive.
From her sleeve she pulled out a silk handkerchief, dampened it on the dewy grass, and dabbed at his wound. One Year’s Worth of Woe « A Fly in Amber
Both of them soaked their handkerchiefs in water and wiped around their faces and necks.
These essays and poems collectively establish a literary tradition for the country rooted in gauchesco poetry, in both European and Argentine writers, in the frontier-like atmosphere of the compadritos: "Foulmouthed men who whiled away their time behind a whistle or a cigarette and whose distinctive traits were a high-combed mane of hair, a silk handkerchief, high-heeled shoes, a bent-over gait, a challenging gaze … [in a] classic time of gangs, of Indians," i.e., the characters in "The Man on Pink Corner" and the men Dahlmann encounters when he travels South. CounterPunch
Presumably the decline of domestic servants to launder the disgusting handkerchiefs.
Altair reached into his vest pocket and pulled out a stained, frayed handkerchief.
But of the elderly women who came there, not many had so far changed the fashion of their youth as to cover the white "mutch" with anything but a handkerchief in the summertime, or with a shawl, or with the hood of the mantle of scarlet or grey duffel, when the weather was cold. Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not
Chrestomanci tossed his chicken bone to the dragon and slowly wiped his fingers on a handkerchief with a gold-embroidered C in one corner. CHARMED LIFE
REUSE 5. Swap disposables for reusables for example, adopt handkerchiefs, refillable bottles, shopping totes, cloth napkins, rags, and such. Maria Rodale: 10 Easy Ways to Becomea Zero-Waste Household
He mopped at them clumsily with a huge white handkerchief. Times, Sunday Times
Harold Thomson's handkerchief showed the bullet hole and powder burns from the highwayman's gunshot.
I flourished my white handkerchief. BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
However, Goodchild (brought back by his cry for help) bandaged the ankle with a pocket-handkerchief, and assisted by the landlord, raised the crippled Apprentice to his legs, offered him a shoulder to lean on, and exhorted him for the sake of the whole party to try if he could walk. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
Mrs How bought a silk handkerchief of him also. Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
Here was I, a ballet girl who had taken a cold whose proportions simply towered over that nursed by the leading lady's self; and as I slipped and slid slushily homeward, I asked myself angrily what a fairy was to do with a handkerchief, -- and in heaven's name, what was that fairy to do without one. Stage Confidences
Essential oils can be added to bath water, dropped onto a tissue or handkerchief, added to a vaporiser, or used in massage lotions.
In many games on the market today, women are portrayed as empty-headed bimbos that need saving, all the while wearing little more than a handkerchief.
He turned half round, and beside him stood our honest friend Touchwood, his throat muffled in his large Indian handkerchief, huge gouty shoes thrust upon his feet, his bobwig well powdered, and the gold-headed cane in his hand, carried upright as a sergeant's halberd. St. Ronan's Well
The final touch to Laura's ensemble is two handkerchief-wrapped powder puffs stuffed in the bosom of her dress to improve her bust line.
Strain the shrimp water into a container through a clean handkerchief or fine muslin cloth.
A sidelong glance revealed a handkerchief, he heard its rustling. HAVANA BEST FRIENDS
Eliza took her handkerchief out of her sleeve and pressed it lightly against her forehead to absorb the perspiration.
Meanwhile cotton or linen handkerchiefs are so last century. Times, Sunday Times
Perigord paused, took some coffee and wiped his lips with a large white monogrammed handkerchief. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
She is dressed in a tight-fitting black velvet bodice. square-cut at the neck and partly filled in with a gay handkerchief, coloured rose-pink, blue, and golden, like the alpen-rose, the gentian, and the mountain dandelion; alabaster beads, pale as edelweiss, are round her throat; her stiffened. white linen sleeves finish at the elbow; and her full well-worn skirt is of gentian blue. Plays : Second Series
The first person she saw was Sally, sitting on one of the chairs, sewing fine, little stitches on her handkerchief.
They were a picturesque crew with their broad felt hats, their flannel shirts of various colors, overlaid with an enamel of dust and perspiration, baked by the Dakota sun, their bright silk handkerchiefs knotted round the neck, their woolly "shaps," their great silver spurs, their loosely hanging cartridge-belts, their ominous revolvers. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
An elderly man in a shabby black overcoat and wide-brimmed beaver hat was standing in front of the magistrate's desk, clutching a newspaper in one hand and dabbing his eyes with a none too clean handkerchief.
The exhibition of his work at the Museum until 25 January includes Wedgwood mugs, plates and bowls, furniture, a pocket handkerchief, printed ephemera for famous shops, book illustrations and poster designs.
Brand folded it in his handkerchief and placed it in the inside pocket of his jacket.
Huge "arctics" were strapped on his feet, from which seemed to spring, as from massive roots, his small, thin form, clad in a scanty _robe de chambre_ of cotton flannel, surmounted by a broad sou'wester, carefully covered by a voluminous white pocket handkerchief. Adrift in the Ice-Fields
I blew my nose in a napkin and blew my nose again on his handkerchief.
To clear a muggy head, put a couple of drops of thyme, rosemary or pine essential oil on a handkerchief and inhale frequently - all have antiviral and decongestant properties.
He always popped his handkerchief once, wiped his brow, and then emitted a loud wheeze - like the releasing of steam from a locomotive.
I don't bother to iron handkerchiefs it's not worth it.
There was an odor of something sickishly sweet in the air for a moment, as the handkerchief was pressed to the boy's nostrils. The Grammar School Boys of Gridley or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving
Handkerchief was overawed, and with surly looks he led three of his men aboard the Reindeer. White and Yellow
At the Dominican Monastery they showed half the handkerchief on which the Virgin wept and wiped her eyes at the foot of the cross. Six Months in Mexico
Dressed in a sheepskin coat, with a fur cap on his head and his mouth bound up with a handkerchief, he seemed paler and thinner than ever.
The groom is seen mopping his brow with a handkerchief.
When I got up to my room, my head was spinning as I snuffled into a handkerchief.
SPEAKS GOOD ENGLISH, is remarkably tall and stout made, has a large mark on her right cheek where she has been burnt; she had on her a blue negro cloth jacket and coat, a blue shalloon gown, a red and white cotton handkerchief round her head, a blue and white ditto about her neck, and a pair of men's shoes, and a ditto men's clowded stockings. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916
I found a handkerchief tied close, but not too tightly, round the eyes for a whole night, to be a more effectual remedy for this disagreeable complaint than any application of eyewater; and my companions being induced to try the same experiment, derived equal benefit from it. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2
She pleated the edge of the handkerchief, working it through her fingers.
Raising a lace handkerchief, she waved it gently in the air, and the boisterous calls escalated anew. SEASONS OF GOLD
Rolled-hem feet are designed for fine to mediumweight fabrics such as cotton batiste, broadcloth and handkerchief linen.
You could cut it into lengths and either finish the edges with a serger or a rolled hem, like in this handkerchief tutorial, and make a few beautiful lightweight scarves. Fab Fabrics: Vintage Sari
Eliza took her handkerchief out of her sleeve and pressed it lightly against her forehead to absorb the perspiration.
His eyes began to dart back and forth and he took out a handkerchief and wiped his brow.
It's a long time since I boiled up a batch of handkerchiefs to be dried on the fireguard and ironed neatly.
Many tears were wiped in silk handkerchiefs yesterday morning, a few steps from the very popular Saint-Denis market.
A glass rod when rubbed with a silk handkerchief becomes, as we have seen, highly electric, and will attract a pithball (fig. 2). The Story of Electricity
A market-woman with her jolly brown face and laughing brown eyes — eyes all the softer for a touch of antimony — her ample form clothed in a lively print overall, made with a yoke at the shoulders, and a full long flounce which is gathered on to the yoke under the arms and falls fully to the feet; with her head done up in a yellow or red handkerchief, and her snowy white teeth gleaming through her vast smiles, is a mighty pleasant thing to see, and to talk to. Travels in West Africa
They call one these little water heaters a Junkers for the same reason people call a vacuum cleaner a Hoover and a disposable handkerchief a Kleenex.
As late as the 1700s in certain parts of Europe, people of low birth were not allowed to blow their nose on handkerchiefs.
Around the ring the first handkerchief began to flutter. Times, Sunday Times
The display cabinets house socks, handkerchiefs, underwear, braces, belts - I am sure there are drawers and drawers of treasures beneath hiding away.
He removed his glasses and began polishing the lenses with a white silk handkerchief. Times, Sunday Times
Fox holds a potlatch to signalize his marriage to Lit-Lit and she, "tearfully shy and frightened, is bedecked by her husband with a new calico dress, splendidly beaded mocassins, a gorgeous silk handkerchief over her raven hair, a purple scarf about her throat, brass earrings and finger-rings, and a whole pint of pinchbeck jewelry, including a Waterbury watch. “I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .”
Heiress, a wedding dress from 1957 with chevron pleated handkerchief linen descending in tiers banded with handmade Irish crochet, demonstrates the concept at its most magical.
He took a handkerchief and wiped Rebecca's face also then sat down on the ledge next to her.
It is worthy of remark that it had been taken away blindfold, that is to say, wrapped in a handkerchief. The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2
The teenage pyromaniacs experimented with different fuel sources, different sorts of fats (some very smelly) and oils, moss, dry rotten wood and home baked tinder using a cotton handkerchief.
The leader, clad in a light grey suit, wearing white silk socks and blancoed shoes, mopped his head with a handkerchief.
Then we're all walking north - thousands of us, holding handkerchiefs to noses, coughing, a few in tears.
He took out a handkerchief and blew his nose.
In one scene he had to take a handkerchief out of his pocket, and in the process shower Maggie Smith with nuts.
Her tiny feet were wrapped in a woollen bundle, and rested on hot bricks, and her aching head was tied up in red flannel bandages that smelled of brandy; she had a mustard plaster on her chest, a cayenne pepper 'gargle' for her throat, and a cup of hot ginger tea stood at her elbow; her pretty nose was swollen out of shape, her bright eyes were red and inflamed, and little blisters had broken out all over those kissable lips; a very damp white handkerchief lay in her lap, and two great tears, that it had not yet wiped away, ran down her flushed cheeks. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
At her girdle hung a gold chain and cross, and she carried a handkerchief and a little prayer book bound in gold.
Everything was mentioned, the number of handkerchiefs, the condition of the comb, of the hairbrush and clothesbrush, with sketches showing the position of each item. Maigret and the Reluctant Witness
It was such a hot day that he had to keep mopping his forehead with handkerchief.
She wiped her eyes with a lace handkerchief and he caught the drift of her exotic scent.
A perspiring signor rose, mopping his forehead with a white linen handkerchief, his brow furrowed with worry. THE FAMILY
There was a handkerchief sticking out of his jacket pocket.
When Hop Sing returned my handkerchief to me with a bow, I asked if the juggler was the father of the baby. Tales of the Argonauts
Dr. Porter was an invalid, with the prophetic handkerchief bundling his throat, and his face "festooned" -- as I heard Hillard say once, speaking of one of our College professors -- in folds and wrinkles. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
Although I have spoken Romanian for decades, it was only while talking with Oskar Pastior that I realized that the Romanian word for handkerchief is batistă. Herta Müller - Nobel Lecture
And while on the subject of handkerchiefs, Brodie Ross's Roderigo is the best ever – a hilarious wimp, blubbing into his soggy hankie, insisting on repeated hugs from Iago. Othello; Grief; St Matthew Passion – review
Editors nowadays were often surprised in their sanctums by committees of three from some pestiferous unwomanly club or other, and they had not come, alackaday, to have their handkerchiefs picked up with courtly speeches, graced with an apt quotation from "Maud. V. V.'s Eyes
She asks to leave the room so she doesn't have to see his ugly mug and feigns drying tears with a handkerchief.
He mopped his brow with a red handkerchief, and she noticed the last two fingers of his right hand were gone; deep teeth marks were grooved into his remaining flesh. Slice Of Cherry
He pulled out his needler again and pretended to polish it with his handkerchief, all without taking his eyes off Lew. Command Decision
It's a three-handkerchief weepie untainted by ugly politics. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – review
Of course, Lasker had no precedents to invoke in the marketing of Kotex; but when it came time to introduce the next revolutionary cellucotton-based product for Kimberly-Clark, that new product - a disposable handkerchief called "Kleenex" - was purposefully positioned to draw on the halo effect of its older sibling. How they sell you what you don't understand
It's a good thing I brought lots of handkerchiefs.
BLOOM: _ (In caubeen with clay pipe stuck in the band, dusty brogues, an emigrant's red handkerchief bundle in his hand, leading a black bogoak pig by a sugaun, with a smile in his eye) _ Let me be going now, woman of the house, for by all the goats in Connemara I'm after having the father and mother of a bating. Ulysses
Fox holds a potlatch to signalize his marriage to Lit-Lit and she, "tearfully shy and frightened, is bedecked by her husband with a new calico dress, splendidly beaded mocassins, a gorgeous silk handkerchief over her raven hair, a purple scarf about her throat, brass earrings and finger-rings, and a whole pint of pinchbeck jewelry, including a Waterbury watch. “I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .”
It was a dainty linen handkerchief, delicately edged with snow white tatting, the initial `A" rather shakily embroidered in one corner. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
I couldn't find the handkerchief anywhere.
He flicked at spot with handkerchief.
The parcels contained lace handkerchiefs for the womenfolk and larger ones for the men. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
When the call was made and I had to go, I stood straight in front of the closed door, clenching the handkerchief firmly.
It contained a dozen small white handkerchiefs. A Little Princess
Diving into her bag, she found a handkerchief just in time.
With his left hand he pulled a large white handkerchief from the pocket of his black coat, and with it he wiped off the knife and his gloved right hand which had been holding it; then he put the handkerchief away. Excerpt: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Mrs Kershaw was now weeping openly without the formality of a handkerchief.
Her sister broke down, sobbing into her handkerchief.
Some were carrying placards and waving handkerchiefs on sticks. Times, Sunday Times
He always wore a strange mixture of civilized and savage clothes – fringed buckskin "chaps," beaded moccasins, a blue flannel shirt, a scarlet silk handkerchief knotted around his throat, a wide-brimmed cowboy hat with a rattlesnake skin as a The Shagganappi
The handkerchief is the physical evidence that convinces Othello of his wife's faithlessness.
She hemstitched a fine white linen handkerchief for her father while I read. CHAPTER XIX
He blew his nose in his handkerchief.
She dabbed at my lip with her handkerchief.
I screwed my wet handkerchief into a ball.
He walked over to the demilune table and set down the Filofax, pulling a snow-white handkerchief out of the pocket of his shorts. The Merlot Murders
Allen furled the large handkerchief into a silken rope.
He wants to wipe her lipstick off his face and reaches for a handkerchief in his breast pocket.
The discussion developed into a quarrel, in the midst of which Yellow Handkerchief unshipped the heavy tiller and sprang toward me. YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF
He said it was a sweaty performance with handkerchief in full use. Christianity Today
With further lack of modesty she stretched out two rounded arms worthy of Juno, ending in finely molded hands -- when I say _hands_ I am not exact, for, strictly speaking, only one hand could be seen, and that held a richly embroidered handkerchief. First Love (Little Blue Book #1195) And Other Fascinating Stories of Spanish Life
But the truth is, a lot of today's menswear designers would have loved to be right there with Mr. Cabourn, inspecting Mallory's boot soles and blood-caked handkerchief blue paisley, for the record. The Gentleman Adventurer
He had breeches of the same, with rows of buttons from the hips to the knees; a pink silk handkerchief round his neck, gathered through a ring, on the bosom of a neatly-plaited shirt; a sash round the waist to match; bottinas, or spatterdashes, of the finest russet leather, elegantly worked, and open at the calf to show his stockings and russet shoes, setting off a well-shaped foot. The Alhambra
He turned half round, and beside him stood our honest friend Touchwood, his throat muffled in his large Indian handkerchief, huge gouty shoes thrust upon his feet, his bobwig well powdered, and the gold-headed cane in his hand, carried upright as a sergeant’s halberd. Saint Ronan's Well
Producing a handkerchief from my pocket I dabbed at her face, removing the worst of the ick.
He sits repeatedly wiping his nose on his handkerchief, and then spreading it out on his lap like a napkin.
But just when it looked as if she was about to realise the American dream, she coughed blood into a handkerchief and her doctor diagnosed tuberculosis.
She only managed a muffled squeak as he roughly shoved a handkerchief up to her nose.
Jack, a bit staggery and holding to the back of a chair, mopped the cut on his temple with a handkerchief, his wife's handkerchief, in his free hand. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905
Meanwhile cotton or linen handkerchiefs are so last century. Times, Sunday Times
He drew doodles on the pad in front of him, occasionally dabbing at his loose, wet lips with a handkerchief.
You should have tied a knot in your pocket-handkerchief, Mr. Solness. The Master Builder
Item: four white linen handkerchiefs. Times, Sunday Times
She placed the handkerchief on a piece of paper to dry on the radiator.
I made no sign, but out of the corner of my eye I saw that the Yellow Handkerchief had discovered the emptiness of the pocket which had hitherto overawed him. White and Yellow
Chrestomanci tossed his chicken bone to the dragon and slowly wiped his fingers on a handkerchief with a gold-embroidered C in one corner. CHARMED LIFE
I screwed my wet handkerchief into a ball.
The staging milks the slamming doors, heaving bosoms, and lacy handkerchiefs for all they're worth, while allowing the truly tender moments at the end of the play to resonate.
Because I didn't have a handkerchief or a tissue of any kind, I wrapped the bottom of my shirt around my hand and wiped his eyes.
The new pontifical vestments were: the sakkos, still a patriarchal vestment; the epimanikien; the epigonation, in so far as this vestment had not already been introduced before the ninth century; the epigonation first had the form of a handkerchief and was called enchirion (hand-cloth, handkerchief), it was not named epigonation until the twelfth century. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
The overalled man got to his feet, wiped blood from his face with a handkerchief and went out into the courtyard. LOHENGRIN
The hawkers sell all and sundry: from handkerchiefs to electronic goods.
In his pocket I found a handkerchief, string, and what have you.
So she stripped off her gloves, dug her handkerchief out of her pocket, and mopped at her face. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
One of the soldiers held a handkerchief to his mouth, as if indicating the loss of a tooth, and all had their shirts and inner vests torn open at the neck, which among Persians is an unfailing sign of woe, as among the Israelites of old. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
After a few wipes, the handkerchief was completely soaked with blood.
Mademoiselle Zélie St. Pierre, on this particular Thursday, even assumed a "robe de soie," deemed in economical Labassecour an article of hazardous splendour and luxury; nay, it was remarked that she sent for a "coiffeur" to dress her hair that morning; there were pupils acute enough to discover that she had bedewed her handkerchief and her hands with a new and fashionable perfume. Villette
The young actor held a large white handkerchief trimmed with lace over his nose and mouth.
Iridescent purple swamphens, lavished with outrageous lipstick (their bills and frontal shields actually) stomp over the leaves on gigantic spider feet, bobbing their ludicrous white-handkerchief tails behind them.
‘Ma certie, I should just think so,’ cried McIntosh, rubbing his head with his handkerchief. Madame Midas
We very soon carried out this project, and all of us working away to join our handkerchiefs, we had by the next afternoon a big flag flying from what we called our mast-head. A Voyage round the World A book for boys
He handed her a handkerchief and she wiped her eyes and face in between her sobs.
You're going to get involved in it and bring your handkerchief or a tissue or two.
REUSE 5. Swap disposables for reusables for example, adopt handkerchiefs, refillable bottles, shopping totes, cloth napkins, rags, and such. Maria Rodale: 10 Easy Ways to Becomea Zero-Waste Household
But you must excuse me, my insufficient young lecturer, if I yawn over your imperfect sentences, your repeated phrases, your false pathos, your drawlings and denouncings, your humming and hawing, your ohing and ahing, your black gloves and your white handkerchief. Barchester Towers
There you are -- a white handkerchief and there are the spots. Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing
Camillo now tosses a perfumed handkerchief under his nose, and inhales the coxcombical incense of the idea that he will do all without Camilla's aid, to surprise her; thereby teaching her to know him to be somewhat a hero. Vittoria — Volume 4
I delve into my pocket and pull out my handkerchief to wipe away some of the sweat dripping down my face.
The new pontifical vestments were: the sakkos, still a patriarchal vestment; the epimanikien; the epigonation, in so far as this vestment had not already been introduced before the ninth century; the epigonation first had the form of a handkerchief and was called enchirion (hand-cloth, handkerchief), it was not named epigonation until the twelfth century. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
Whoever watches boys 'playing horse,' making a pocket-handkerchief dangling behind to represent the tail, and sees them stamping, snorting, prancing, and champing the imaginary bit, witnesses the alchymy of the imagination, an alchymy out-stripping all the wonders and out-weighing all the treasures of the prosaic positive chemistry, so longed for by the present generation. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1
Elegant Linens offers a wide selection of hand-rolled handkerchiefs in fine cotton and Irish linen, with hemstitched trims, mostly priced between $12 and $37 apiece. Traditional Handkerchiefs
Several dainty missives and a lace handkerchief, with a monogram, invited the unscrupulous and prying glance of the inquisitive newsmonger. Under the Rose
The drawer was a family portrait in handkerchief format. Herta Müller - Nobel Lecture
A perspiring signor rose, mopping his forehead with a white linen handkerchief, his brow furrowed with worry. THE FAMILY
She lives in a tiny cottage with a pocket-handkerchief garden.
As she did she noticed a white handkerchief lying on the floor beneath the bench, a delicate hemstitch round the edges. Covenant
I'd offered him my handkerchief to keep the sun off his face, and he'd thanked me kindly, for in sech times as that men don't stop to think on which side they belong, but jest buckle-to and help one another. Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys
She wiped her eyes with a lace handkerchief and he caught the drift of her exotic scent.
Common gifts were jewels, gloves, silk stockings, flowers, garters, handkerchiefs, and paperweights.
Each participant took their respective places and was getting handkerchiefs or spare shirts to act as a protection from rope burns.
So she stripped off her gloves, dug her handkerchief out of her pocket, and mopped at her face. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
She hemmed the edges for your white handkerchiefs.
In his pocket I found a handkerchief, string, and what have you.
Now, bind your thumb below the knuckle, a handkerchief works well but any rope or cord will do.
Brand folded it in his handkerchief and placed it in the inside pocket of his jacket.
He published his recollection, noting that "We closed the eyes completely, and placed silver coins upon them, and with a pocket-handkerchief we tied up the jaw, which had already begun to fall. Screaming Mummies!

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