How To Use Pocket-handkerchief In A Sentence
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And he changed his tie and pocket-handkerchief every few minutes.
Globe and Mail
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I simply needed to be content with staring aimlessly at his amazing pinstripe suit and perfectly styled pocket-handkerchief
Alex Geana: Street Style: My Week in Shopping and Charity Events
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He looked poorly, and was dressed in a red cotton pocket-handkerchief.
The Tales of Beatrix Potter
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The way of carrying money in the corner of a pocket-handkerchief is still common.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He was higgling with the proprietor of an immense hog, and as he higgled he wheezed as if he had a difficulty of respiration, and frequently wiped off, with a dirty-white pocket-handkerchief, drops of perspiration which stood upon his face.
Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
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The Mother Superior is greatly overcome by your Excellency's munificence towards the convent, and much perturbed at being unable to send you a specimen of your protégée's skill, exemplified in an embroidered pocket-handkerchief or a pair of mittens; but the fact is that poor Dionea has no skill.
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Left alone at his stall as the other ambled off, Mr Wegg subsided into his screen, produced a small pocket-handkerchief of a penitentially-scrubbing character, and took himself by the nose with a thoughtful aspect.
Our Mutual Friend
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Doc sat there, sneezing and sniffling, blowing his nose into a pocket-handkerchief the size and color of a bed sheet.
Mona
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The way of carrying money in the corner of a pocket-handkerchief is still common.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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It was soon translated into every language of Europe -- (Hood used to laugh as he wondered how they would render "Seam and gusset and band," into Dutch); it was printed and sold as catchpennies, printed on cotton pocket-handkerchiefs, it was illustrated and parodied in a thousand ways; and the greatest triumph of all, which brought tears of joy to
The History of "Punch"
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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
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She lives in a tiny cottage with a pocket-handkerchief garden.
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After eating a cardamum, and touching with our pocket-handkerchief some cotton on which had been dropped otto of roses, we ascended to the house-top, and found it built upon much the same plan as Cashmere Mull's, without its antique carving and quaint appearance.
A Journey to Katmandu (the Capital of Napaul), with The Camp of Jung Bahadoor; including A Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home
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What is called a reticule, which contains their pocket-handkerchief and work, is hanging by a gold chain to the arm, and is fringed with gold.
RVABlogs
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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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She lives in a tiny cottage with a pocket-handkerchief garden.
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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
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You should have tied a knot in your pocket-handkerchief, Mr. Solness.
The Master Builder
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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
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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
