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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