hankerchief

I may have to lie upon my fainting couch with a lavender-scented silk hankerchief held delicately to my brow.

The Twits Roger Sutton 2009

– There are a lot of details about his clothes … between the black Venetian suit and the majestic violet and the hankerchief and the silk shirt and the shining Italian shoes, I think a bit of it could be removed.

Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum 2009

Leave a used hankerchief to discourage other animals.

I was hunting the other day deep in my local woods. I spotted a massive buck and took my shot but I didn't hit it cleanly. 2009

At least for me, as I am far more likely to get my hankerchief all misty over prom dresses and family vacations than large-scale infrastructure projects.

Matthew Yglesias » The Value of the Public Sector 2009

– There are a lot of details about his clothes … between the black Venetian suit and the majestic violet and the hankerchief and the silk shirt and the shining Italian shoes, I think a bit of it could be removed.

Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum 2009

A group of wrinkly Japanese men sat poaching in the lower one, while some were lying on the rocks around its edge to cool down, naked but for a hankerchief-sized "modesty towel", strategically placed.

Snow, steam and sashimi: going off-piste in Japan 2011

Leave a used hankerchief to discourage other animals.

I was hunting the other day deep in my local woods. I spotted a massive buck and took my shot but I didn't hit it cleanly. 2009

At least for me, as I am far more likely to get my hankerchief all misty over prom dresses and family vacations than large-scale infrastructure projects.

Matthew Yglesias » The Value of the Public Sector 2009

Gibbs ripped BP for doing untold damage to our economy, environment, and "way of life," and added that if you listen to Barton, Michele Bachmann and other Republicans, "you'd think somehow BP was a hankerchief, a crying shoulder."

Gibbs on GOP: "Hard to tell what planet these people live on" 2010

No Fred, my God is tending his Gertrude Jekyll-style cottage garden, his snowy white locks disguised under a Panama hat, occasionally mopping his brow with a big red-spotted hankerchief.

Atheists & Dolphins Peter Ashley 2008