nightgowns

She made little corset covers and chemises of fine but fairly inexpensive lawns, and, with simple flowered designs and perfect laundering, her nightgowns were always sweetly fresh and dainty.

CHAPTER IV 2010

She made little corset covers and chemises of fine but fairly inexpensive lawns, and, with simple flowered designs and perfect laundering, her nightgowns were always sweetly fresh and dainty.

Chapter 4 1913

(?) of women, dressed in white, "nightgowns" (grave clothes?), lying still, face upward, on the ground beneath the trees surrounding the churchyard.

Incubus Arensberg, Ann, 1937- 1999

Sex is fruit and sighing and transparent nightgowns and sudden bravery.

Discussion: On Sex in Fiction 2009

With Athena sitting in the rocker supervising the process, Ali commenced folding all the incredibly tiny outfits and separating them first by sort (blankets, shirts, nightgowns, and snuggle outfits) and second by colors (blues and greens, pinks and yellows).

Fatal Error J.A. Jance 2011

After we get our mother settled in to her new home, I run around to stores, collecting things for her room—a lamp, socks, toiletries, nightgowns.

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

Our mother is too weak to unwrap her gifts, so we take the soft flannel nightgowns out of the box for her.

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

There were tea cups laid on narrow ledges; jars of commercial goods with their faded labels; ragged nightgowns on wire hangers; even a woman's kit of makeup as if we had broken in on an outlandish bedroom.

Abomination at the Shilkie Andrew Edwards 2011

In the twinkling of an eye they say, the righteous will ascend, dropping golden dental work, nightgowns, and perhaps some spouses.

Brenda Peterson: Why I Still Want To Be Left Behind Brenda Peterson 2011

He had images of nightgowns and fuzzy slippers and hot cocoa, and no, he most certainly did not want that.

A Light at Winter’s End Julia London 2011