How To Use Kerchief 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.
Those who had struck it rich wore black woollen trousers and Napoleon boots, and sported silk sashes and gaily coloured kerchiefs.
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
She usually wore a dress of dark gray stuff, with immense pockets, a black silk neckerchief folded over her shoulders, a white tamboured muslin cap, with a black ribbon passed two or three times round the crown. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel

Last week, a bronze-skinned buckaroo, with a flashing red neckerchief above his blue shirt, with shining leather chaparejos and crimson saddle-blanket, dashed up from a Western skyline on a snorting, piebald cow-pony.
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
This brilliant wheel, justly called a splendor, is attached to a conical cap on the head of the dancer, held by a ribbon or kerchief tied under the chin. Did You Know? Quetzal Dancers in Puebla, Mexico
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
Artistic works of this relic - called either the "Image of Edessa" or the "mandylion" - generally have it portrayed as the face of Christ upon a towel or kerchief. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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.
A veil, scarf, or kerchief may be suspended from the head and attached there with a headband or hairpins, or it may variably wrap the head, neck, and shoulders.
A colonial attire that is still seen on males in the rural areas is loose baggy pants called bombachas, and a short jacket with a neckerchief in place of a shirt.
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.
Older women often wear a large kerchief or scarf over the head and tied under the chin.
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
Edwards himself was in brilliant brogues, razor-creased tan slacks and blazer over silk shirt and neckerchief.
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
She pursued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the Frank asked Nur al-Din anent the maker of the kerchief, he answered, saying, “In very sooth this kerchief is the handiwork of my mother, who made it for me with her own hand.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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
Now I had to think about her wearing a different kind of scarf, something you probably wouldnt even call a scarf, a kerchief, a bandanna, maybe been a do-rag. NPR Host Pens Book On Race, Family Secrets
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
And it looked quite similar to how a neckerchief or scarf might appear around the neck when worn, in fact.
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.
Not all Muslim women wear a veil, but among those who do, styles vary wildly, from simple kerchiefs and elaborate head scarves to full face-and-body coverings.
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.
She raised her'kerchief to her nose to mitigate the stench. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
Her head was covered by a red kerchief, which, folden triangular, hung loosely over it: her grey hairs were combed back from her high and wrinkled brow. Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund
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
The radiant heat beat against his face and before long, he wrapped his neckerchief around his face because the air was so hot.
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
In Coleman's impressive painting, she is adorned with a yellow kerchief, gold hoop earrings, and a necklace with a gold cross pendant.
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
Similar in purpose to the gorget of medieval plate armor, the neckerchief served to deflect arrows, broadswords, and even great axes from slicing through the vulnerable neck of a cowboy.
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
I hiked into palm washes and up unmarked trails, always water, carrying water everywhere, always a hat, wearing a broadbrimmed hat and a neckerchief, and I stood on promontories in punishing sun, stood and looked. Excerpt: Point Omega by Don DeLillo
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.
What reason was it, O rose of seventeen, adorning thyself with cloudy films of lace and sparks of jewelry before the mirror that reflects youth and beauty, that made Miss Lucinda array herself in a brand-new dress of yellow muslin-de-laine strewed with round green spots, and displace her customary hand-kerchief for a huge tamboured collar, on this eventful occasion? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861
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.
She put on a black strapless dress that showed just a hint of cleavage, clinging to her body before falling from her waist into a kerchief hemline.
I don't bother to iron handkerchiefs it's not worth it.
All about are bondsmen's scalps - bald pates, shaved and shining as this morning's spring-ish dew - while we bonded women wear our best and only sheath of wadmal cloth, gray and drab and of a sweaty woolen, with a flaxen kerchief tied around our brows and braids. Excerpt: The Thrall's Tale by Judith Lindbergh
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
As for the kerchief, it betokeneth that her breath of life is bound up in thee. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Handkerchief was overawed, and with surly looks he led three of his men aboard the Reindeer. White and Yellow
The women were all in beautifully embroidered blouses, brightly coloured circle skirts, neat aprons, and kerchiefs holding their light-coloured hair back from their faces.
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
She pursued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the Frank asked Nur al-Din anent the maker of the kerchief, he answered, saying, “In very sooth this kerchief is the handiwork of my mother, who made it for me with her own hand.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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.
The sisters can then wear the neckerchief slides in their hair.
When I got up to my room, my head was spinning as I snuffled into a handkerchief.
It was an English scene, and the two men, the dog at their feet, (for Peter Dealtry favoured a wirey stone-coloured cur, which he called a terrier,) and just at the door of the little inn, two old gossips, loitering on the threshold in familiar chat with the landlady, in cap and kerchief, -- all together made a groupe equally Eugene Aram — Volume 01
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 raised her'kerchief to her nose to mitigate the stench. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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
Purpling historians starch neckerchiefs/buff ploughs in preparation for latest "living history" wow-fayre Catchup TV: the turn-ons and turn-offs
Good luck with everything this week – and the kerchief is adorable Creative Every Day, Part 11: Recovery « Looking for Roots
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
He pulled on his vest, buttoning it quickly, then the topcoat, and tied on his neckerchief.
Eliza took her handkerchief out of her sleeve and pressed it lightly against her forehead to absorb the perspiration.
Perfect equality reigns among the members of the clan, except in the one respect that the recognized warriors are entitled to the use of a red headkerchief, jacket, and pantaloons, each of these articles, beginning with the first, being added as the number of people whom the warrior has killed is increased. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
With his dungarees, red neckerchief, beard and constantly oily hands, I couldn't help seeing him as a displaced U-boat skipper - or perhaps my imagination was working overtime.
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.
While still a few steps from the officer she unfolded the kerchief and took out of it a white twenty-five-ruble assignat and hastily handed it to him. War and Peace
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
A picture of Christ in the mourning widow's chamber; a "mater dolorosa," in the distracted mother's home; a "kerchief" of the Holy Virgin, spotlessly white, like the glorious spirit, above the bed of olden times, are surely elevating, and honorable presences, the recollections which lead us to them are holy and imperishable, as is the devotion which bows the knee before them. Debts of Honor
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.
For some time before leaving the room in the tavern she had turned the coins restlessly over and over under her kerchief, and meanwhile, as if in a dream, made but evasive answers to the questions and demands of In the Blue Pike — Volume 03
He removed his glasses and began polishing the lenses with a white silk handkerchief. Times, Sunday Times
Hobbling on a broomstick, with, no doubt, the same weird, wizened face as now, an innate sense of the fitness of things must have suggested the kerchief tied around her big head, and the burlaps rag of an apron in front of her linsey-woolsey rag of a gown, and the bit of broken pipe-stem in the corner of her mouth, where the pipe should have been, and where it was in after years. Balcony Stories
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.
Married women wear coarse chemises and aprons of homespun linen; and their braided hair coiled on top of the head imparts a coronet shape to the gay cotton kerchief which is folded across the brow and knotted at the nape of the neck. Russian Rambles
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.
The man in corduroy and dirty neckerchief no longer addressed me as THE DESCENT
If you have a low threshold for boredom, you'll probably end up with a ‘kerchief.
Villagers wear everyday clothing fit for farming work: women wear flowery cotton or flannel dresses, and kerchiefs on their heads; men wear shirts and pants made of durable cloth, and caps or hats.
Then we're all walking north - thousands of us, holding handkerchiefs to noses, coughing, a few in tears.
Wearing their bright yellow sweatshirts and neckerchiefs, which are so easily recognisable, they stand out like a badge of courage.
He took out a handkerchief and blew his nose.
In summer, women wear white head coverings or brightly colored kerchiefs.
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.
Anyway, may God help us all if there ever was a plague, I haven’t noticed any cessation in gobbing, sneexing and coughing without shielding using hands, ‘kerchief etc. Cheap Trick, Well Done. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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
When the couple recovered, the Princess fell to kissing his hands and feet and wiping with her kerchief the sweat from his brow and saying to him, "O my lord, and the light of mine eyes, may none thy hand ever foreslow nor exult over thee any foe," till he had recovered his right senses and had regained his strength. Arabian nights. English
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
Artistical works of this relic - called either the "Image of Edessa" or the "mandylion" - generally have it portrayed as the face of Christ upon a towel or kerchief. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
At her farewell party, Monika danced a waltz with one of the Mariinsky's ballerinas and was presented with retirement gifts of carrot cake, a pinafore and a kerchief.
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
From this distance, about a hundred meters, he could make out beetled brows, and kerchiefs around noses and mouths.
But his prayers to Saint Veronica, who is credited with giving Jesus a kerchief to wipe his brow on the road to Golgotha, apparently go unanswered.
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
He walked slowly towards Joe, wiping the back of his neck with his kerchief.
He had a saddlebag slung over his shoulder and a bright red kerchief tied around his neck.
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.
I heard your plan, and I did follow you in the poncho and kerchief, meaning to hold up the stage first, and leave it to Crosby and Curtis to prove you did it. Ranson's Folly
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.
France be so kind as to order me one half a dozen tombour worked Muslin hankerchiefs, 4 Ells Book Muslin, one pound of white threads, 12 Ells of light crimson caliminco with a peice of coarse cambrick and any light wollen stuff that will answer for winter gowns, half a dozen coulourd plumes and a small Box of flowers for Miss Nabby at her request to her pappa. Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 23 April 1781
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

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