Meaning of pocket-handkerchief | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C2]

Examples

“Here Mrs. Higgs paused for a moment, and drew out a huge red pocket-handkerchief, with which her face was for some minutes confounded.”

“Sheets, tablecloths, white gowns, and pocket-handkerchiefs were instantly in demand, and every one, as has been seen, entered, con amore, into the extempore entertainment of Pandemonic Revels.”

“Mr. Mantalini waited with much decorum to hear the amount of the proposed stipend, but when it reached his ears, he cast his hat and cane upon the floor, and drawing out his pocket-handkerchief, gave vent to his feelings in a dismal moan.”

“‘I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief. But it is not to this fact that I now especially advert.’”

“[…] I groped from step to step, collecting the shattered earthenware, and drying the spatters of milk from the banister with my pocket-handkerchief.”

“And as for the separation scene from the child, while Becky was reciting it, Emmy retired altogether behind her pocket-handkerchief, so that the consummate little tragedian must have been charmed to see the effect which her performance produced on her audience.”

“P.C. Phillips took prisoner into custody, and found the money in his possession, and several pocket-handkerchieves, which had been missed some weeks before.”

“There was but little discord between church and chapel, except at treat-times, and on kindred occasions of exceptional excitement; and every Sunday evening church dames, duly equipped with Rippon’s Selection, an unopened pocket-handkerchief, and a sprig of boy’s love, might be seen marching, like any chapelers, to Zoar.”

“The election of General Harrison is the triumph of the national over the sectional idea; of the great over the little, of the standard of a powerful country over the pocket-handkerchieves of an elderly politician; and all that is needed to bring about the general prosperity of the whole country of one section as much as another, is an intelligent appreciation of what has happened.”

“She laughed […] while she flirted a soiled pocket-handkerchief at him.”

“He wore curious clothes, not like most gentlemen, but all wool things, even to his collars and his boots, which were soft and soppy like felt; and he took snuff to that degree I wouldn’t have believed any human nose could have borne it, and he must have been a great trial to Mrs. Oliver until she got used to him and his pottering about all over the house in his soft-soled shoes; and the mess he made of his pocket-handkerchieves and his linen!”

“An enormous man and woman (it was early-closing day) were stretched motionless, with their heads on pocket-handkerchiefs, side by side, within a few feet of the sea, while two or three gulls gracefully skirted the incoming waves, and settled near their boots.”

“The 63 year-old Cratzbarg is known for his flamboyant personality and style, with his signature black-framed glasses, big watches and a silk pocket-handkerchief.”

“He wore a baggy tuxedo with a white pocket-handkerchief.”

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