pockethandkerchief

Pa was, at first, in the stirred depths of his conscience, so far from sure of being safe yet, that he made out majestic matrons lurking in ambush among the harmless trees of Greenwich Park, and seemed to see a stately countenance tied up in a well-known pockethandkerchief glooming down at him from a window of the Observatory, where the Familiars of the

Our Mutual Friend 2004

The good lady waved her gloves in a sense of the impossibility of saying more, and tied the pockethandkerchief over her head in a tighter knot under her chin.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

He returned so often from the pulpit minus his pockethandkerchief that Mrs. Erskine at last began to suspect that the handkerchiefs were stolen by some of the old women who lined the pulpit stairs.

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886. Various

Here I sit at the desk again, watching his eye—humbly watching his eye, as he rules a ciphering-book for another victim whose hands have just been flattened by that identical ruler, and who is trying to wipe the sting out with a pockethandkerchief.

VII. My “First Half” at Salem House 1917

When I got there I found the Belgian standing up over him, wiping his bayonet with his pockethandkerchief.

The Romantic May Sinclair 1904

The boy was first in her, and pulling out his pockethandkerchief ostentatiously wiped a seat for Mr. Dodds.

More Cargoes 1897 1903

At night I sewed a lace border on the Mexican pockethandkerchief

New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

And the profusion of coronets! every stocking, every pockethandkerchief, every thing had a coronet on it! ...

New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

I took one glimpse at him (just one) when he came on the stage, - and to be sure he was as white as a pockethandkerchief, but he made no gasping and spluttering, as I found him doing last year at the/fourth/

New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

Next, and also naturally, he drew forth his pockethandkerchief, but ere he could carry it to his mouth, dropped it in haste and with a cry of horror, for it contained an enormous frog, which, in its struggles to escape, fell plump into his plate.

Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series Bracebridge Hemyng 1871