How To Use Nightgown In A Sentence
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She wore a light blue nightgown with teddy bears on it and black wristbands.
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Thus Flora on one occasion had been reduced to rage and despair, had her most secret feelings lacerated, had obtained a view of the utmost baseness to which common human nature can descend -- I won't say _a propos de bottes_ as the French would excellently put it but literally _a propos_ of some mislaid cheap lace trimmings for a nightgown the romping one was making for herself.
Chance A Tale in Two Parts
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She folded her nightgown and robe, pushing them into a corner of her case without regard for the fragile material.
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She was wearing a nightgown hitched up above her knees, wide-spread thighs supporting a lapboard and pad upon which she was writing intently.
Will
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They spoke to me in patois, which I did not understand, and seemed surprised to see us all in our nightgowns, forgetting that we had little else to put on till they had brought the luggage.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
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Clad in my nightgown and untied work boots, I must have been a sight.
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She rose in her pale nightgown.
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In another there is a room, lit coldly by far too many fluorescent tubes, where you can go to buy nightgowns, camisoles, teddies, housecoats and dusters.
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I had put a robe on over my nightgown and both garments together did a fair job of deflecting the faint breeze.
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Her brown hair was in rollers and she was also still in her nightgown.
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At first they glanced at each other, befuddled by the albino girl who stood in nothing but a strapless nightgown.
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She wore only her nightgown, as always, and the air w cold and damp.
I.O.U. - SOMEONE HAS TO PAY
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His hand outstretched over her, and her nightgown faded into skimpy sleepwear.
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Lillia crossed the room and grabbed her light-blue nightgown.
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He'd seen Jacqueline standing at the head of the table like a high priestess over an altar, a ghost in the blurry movement of her nightgown.
MINUTES TO BURN
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Flora on one occasion had been reduced to rage and despair, had her most secret feelings lacerated, had obtained a view of the utmost baseness to which common human nature can descend -- I won't say _a propos de bottes_ as the French would excellently put it, but literally _a propos_ of some mislaid cheap lace trimmings for a nightgown the romping one was making for herself.
Chance
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I watched June walk across the living room toward the kitchen wearing a light purple nightgown and satiny bathrobe.
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She suffered powder burns to her right hand and a bullet passed through the sleeve of her nightgown.
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She got into her old nightgown and hung her wet clothes in the sunlight of her room.
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And five houses further on, catercorner from his house, Mrs. Wese, her fox fur over her nightgown, was peering out for her husband, who was taking an unusually long time today.
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
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I slowly got out of bed and threw a robe over my nightgown.
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Women in nightdresses and nightgowns and men in trousers and shorts exited their homes in the utmost haste, murmuring amongst themselves.
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She wore a light blue nightgown with teddy bears on it and black wristbands.
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A babydoll is a short nightgown or negligee intended as nightwear for a female.
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She got up, pulling another long cotton nightgown out.
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She was glad to be wearing something else; the nightgown was embarrassingly short and was hiked up even higher now that she was on the horse.
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She was wearing a white floor-length sleeveless nightgown.
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The bedclothes fell away to reveal a soft, flannel nightgown, and she wondered hastily where her evening gown was.
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She laughed at how persistent he was, and quickly slid out of her scratchy and stiff nightgown that she had lived in for the past week.
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She stands upright in her long white cotton nightgown from Laura Ashley, scratches her bottom through the cambric, and yawns.
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Hearing voices in the entrance hall, Beth hastily tugged down her nightgown and crept into bed, arming herself with a book as an effective prop.
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She was dressed now in a silk woven gauzy nightgown.
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From the drawers she pulled a soft flannel nightgown, with short, round, puffy sleeves and lace at the collars and hem.
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I did not feel the weight nor the pressure of the dress and corset I'd been wearing before, but rather the loose gauze of my nightgown.
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That night I sat in bed, cloaked in a pure white silken nightgown and sitting upon the layers of bedspreads which made a soft cushion for me.
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Slipping on a red plaid robe over her nightgown, Lydie slowly trudged to the front door.
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She put on her night robe over her nightgown before grabbing her crutches.
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Anna was dressed in a dirty nightgown with mud stains on her.
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She wore only her nightgown, as always, and the air w cold and damp.
I.O.U. - SOMEONE HAS TO PAY
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The toes of her little Cinderella feet peeked out from under the frills of her nightgown.
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She rushed into her closet and quickly slipped into a loin cloth as well as a loose nightgown.
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Even if she were in trouble she would not leave her decrepit house in a nightgown.
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And she was lying there like a Victorian consumptive in her nightgown, stained red, staring at me glassily.
THE EXECUTION
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She stretched and looked at Amanda in disgust who wore a bright pink bathrobe over a rose pink colored nightgown complete with pink furry trimmings.
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Gallagher, 83, and Paredes, the maid who boxed up the clothes, together have posted for Internet auction a long list of items that once belonged to Jacqueline Kennedy - including a pink nightgown: $300-$400; a used tube of "Arden Pink" lipstick and some pale blue stationery: $200-$300; and an unopened pack of Greek cigarettes and matchbook: $100-$200.
National Archives has Jacqueline Kennedy's pink suit, but hat is missing
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Since it was still fairly early, she grabbed a blue nightgown with a pattern design of autumn leafs on it.
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Probably wearing one of those loose-fitting floral nightgowns she always wore when we were growing up.
Extra Ticket
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She brushed her teeth, changed into a nightgown, and climbed into bed.
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Laura, in her nightgown, notices that Tom's bed is empty while he roots around in his pockets on the fire escape in search of his key.
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She drew a few deep breaths and padded toward the bathroom as she stripped off her nightgown.
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I shuddered and realized that I was only wearing a nightgown and a light robe.
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She had outgrown her nightgown; it was torn at the shoulders and far too short for her.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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However, the fact remained that the mention of her name conjured up assorted visions-starting with Jamie kissing her ardently in an alcove at Castle Leoch, and ending with him fumbling up her nightgown in the darkness of their marriage bed, hands warm and eager on her thighs-that made me snort like a grampus and feel the blood throb hotly in my temples.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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She is a storm cloud—puffs of ebon skin fringing her soiled white cotton nightgown.
Fallout
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She looks pretty in a flimsy nightgown of a dress.
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And we had him clothed in this ugly pink nightgown, this noxiously ratty looking dirty blonde wig, red marabou, and orange fuzzy slippers.
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Before him stood, or crouched, a diminutive, dark-skinned individual, clad in a scarlet fez and an off-white nightgown.
THE LONELY SEA
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I just had on my light weight snow blue nightgown that went to my ankles.
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She rose in her pale nightgown.
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But for me a flannel nightgown and a blanket is a less expensive way of taking care of that problem here.
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As she was watching the rain pelting down, Calphurnia came in clad in a long, white, flowing nightgown.
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His mother, in her flannel nightgown, held the newborn Ashley, whose agonized screams filled the dining room.
ROUGH JUSTICE
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She was wearing just an open dressing-gown, her lacy cream nightgown showing beneath.
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She removed her nightgown and donned a pair of black doeskin breeches.
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But it was yet another coverall ready to be ripped away to reveal something saucier; in Florence's case, below the red Lanz nightgown was a gauze-and-glitter gown.
'Dancing with the Stars' Week 5: We watch so you don't have to
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Drew entered their bedroom to see Marietta still in bed, wearing a light, cotton nightgown and her dark hair in a long braid down her back.
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The floor was dusty and Carmen cringed at the sight of her dirty, torn nightgown.
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Then she knelt in the folds of the white nightgown, fabric endlessly laundered, beaten with swirled soap, left gristled and stiff.
Underworld
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I had two dresses, one nightgown, three pair of undergarments and a thin, threadbare cloak.
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My favourite thing is a beautiful, biascut silk nightgown my grandma hand-stitched for me.
Times, Sunday Times
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One one year I received a lovely night twinset and nightgown, all in beautiful liberty lorne (excuse spelling) that she'd made (mum was a fantastic home seemstress) another year i received a kimono, these home made gifts were among the most treasured I ever received.
Dreaming of a Cheap Christmas
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She made sure no one was watching, and changed from her nightgown to a light dress.
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His first design for her was a nightgown, a "deshabille" of white and rose organdy trimmed with lace and biscuit colored ribbons when she was hospitalized with a bout of her recurring heart ailment.
Cherie Burns: What's a Fashion Muse?
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She even bought a foolish little beribboned and belaced nightgown.
Of Course You Can Buy This - A Dress A Day
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She tucked her feet under her nightgown and the red shawl.
A Little Princess
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The floor was dusty and Carmen cringed at the sight of her dirty, torn nightgown.
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She wore only her nightgown, as always, and the air w cold and damp.
I.O.U. - SOMEONE HAS TO PAY
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The pattern in question is a combination nightgown, or lady's "pyjama," and is a novelty which will be found of much value and comfort.
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886.
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Now that she was closer, Vigilante could see her better, and noticed that she wore a flimsy nightgown.
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Her eyes went wide as she seemed to notice the red splotches on her nightgown.
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I watch the blood soak the front of my nightgown and the cuspid that cuts like a knife.
Second Glance
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Her fingers dropped from the frilling of her nightgown, and her fierce black eyes flashed at me.
The Moonstone
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I feel like I should either be wearing some fancy Victorian nightgown, or some slutty lingerie.
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a nightgown of long-cloth, and wide, short drawers; the whole is covered with a sleeveless _abá_, or burnous, and sometimes with a half-sleeved caftan -- here termed 'tobe' -- garnished with a huge breast-pocket.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
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Ms. Li, 38, her petite frame dressed in a pink nightgown, spoke softly and stared at the ceiling with teary eyes.
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Anna let her uncoil her hair, pull the white nightgown over her shoulders and then dismissed her.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Hugh hurried down the steps, and his last vision of Joss was as she dropped the breeks to the floor, lifted a cotton nightgown over her head and let it fall over her naked body.
Aching for Always
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She wore only her nightgown, as always, and the air w cold and damp.
I.O.U. - SOMEONE HAS TO PAY
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According to her, the basket they had found at the office door was woven of the finest wicker and lined in batiste; Eliza's nightgown was worked with French knots and the sheets edged with Brussels lace, and topping everything was a mink coverlet, an extravagance never seen in Chile.
Excerpt: Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
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Sandals can double for slippers and a long T-shirt can double for a nightgown.
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For the first time Ian notices that she's wearing nothing but a silk nightgown, so thin and filmy that it looks like gold paint brushed over her body.
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She was in a loose nightgown that was falling from her shoulder, but she didn't care.
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In another there is a room, lit coldly by far too many fluorescent tubes, where you can go to buy nightgowns, camisoles, teddies, housecoats and dusters.
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Without thinking, she pelted down the stairs in her nightgown.
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The drawing appears to be a most unqueenly portrait, as the sitter is wearing a nightgown.
Times, Sunday Times
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She pulled the strap of her nightgown onto her shoulder.
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She was in a light blue nightgown with little clouds on it.
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She knew it as sure as she knew that you had to Machine Wash Tumble Dry your nightgowns but never your underdrawers.
Moses Reborn
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The girl was dressed in a white flowing nightgown and wore a garland of flowers.
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At night she wears lace and nylon bedclothes while the other girls wear flannel and cotton nightgowns.
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His mother, in her flannel nightgown, held the newborn Ashley, whose agonized screams filled the dining room.
ROUGH JUSTICE
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She slid out, landing in crumpled pile on the floor, squirming to get under the bed, her white, cotton nightgown pressing to her body as she tried to escape.
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I am wearing a red flannel nightgown with buttons and white snowflakes.
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The door swung open to reveal Helen in a shadowy blue nightgown with her red hair all frizzled, her glasses tangled in her messy hair.
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Anna let her uncoil her hair, pull the white nightgown over her shoulders and then dismissed her.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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She wore only her nightgown, as always, and the air w cold and damp.
I.O.U. - SOMEONE HAS TO PAY
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A breeze caught her nightgown and it rose to give Jay a small glance at her pink underwear.
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Jessica nodded and Jennie went into her own room, coming back with a loose nightgown and clothes for tomorrow.
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She suffered powder burns to her right hand and a bullet passed through the sleeve of her nightgown.
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He is escorted into my bedroom by half a dozen companions and menservants, and they formally undress him and leave him only when he is in his nightgown.
The White Queen
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She suffered powder burns to her right hand and a bullet passed through the sleeve of her nightgown.
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... it was cruel and bigoted of Joanna to buy yards and yards of calico for nightgowns and "petticoat bodies," with trimmings of untearable embroidery.
Joanna Godden
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That afternoon, when we left the shop, Ben took me to a nearby place, the used-clothing shop where his friend worked for his father, and we bought an old nightgown for twopence.
The Secret of the Sealed Room
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She was in bed by now, knees drawn up, wearing a flannel nightgown and an old chenille bathrobe.
SLEEP WHILE I SING
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She was wearing a nightgown she had made out of what was left over from the organdy.
DANSVILLE
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She noted the thinness of the child's nightgown.
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In another there is a room, lit coldly by far too many fluorescent tubes, where you can go to buy nightgowns, camisoles, teddies, housecoats and dusters.
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There's a knock on our bedroom door, I hurry in my undergarments and put on my nightgown.
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My favourite thing is a beautiful, biascut silk nightgown my grandma hand-stitched for me.
Times, Sunday Times
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She slipped on a thin robe over her nightgown silently and tiptoed her way to the door.
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She gave these answers, with her attention apparently absorbed in folding and refolding the frilling on her nightgown.
The Moonstone
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She was met at the entrance of her rooms by her maid, who gasped in shock at the sight of the slight figure in her ghost-white nightgown, and hastily forced her back in.
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She brings it regardless, ignoring the way it drags at her hand and tangles in her nightgown.
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She pulled up her nightgown and drummed her fingers on her swollen belly.
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Kitty came in without knocking, threw me a hard glance, then without a word whipped off her flimsy black nightgown, kicked off her pink slippers, and sat down naked on the toilet.
Heaven
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He knew where my mother kept her nightgowns, her housedresses and especially… her underwear.
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Marianne's nightgown was speckled with purple; at first I thought it was blood but then I noticed a half-drunk bottle of wine by the bed.
THE EXECUTION