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Sentences ending with handkerchief

She bathed the wound--the bullet had passed clean through the fleshy part of the arm--and then carefully tied the scarf round it over her handkerchief. [11]
He was born with a most comfortable belief in himself and the knowledge that when he decided to become a domestic man he had simply, as the phrase is, to throw his handkerchief. [4]
But while I was speaking about the sense of smell he nestled about in his seat, and presently succeeded in getting out a large red bandanna handkerchief. [6]
We couldn't seem to meet anybody in this lonesome Britain, not even an ogre; and, in the mood I was in then, it was well for the ogre; that is, an ogre with a handkerchief. [5]
Suddenly Guida said to herself: "My handkerchief--why did he take my handkerchief? [11]
Presently she realised this, and drew back, then made as though to dry the tears from the paper with her handkerchief. [11]
There was the thing in my pocket, still wrapped in Polly Ann's handkerchief. [9]
I was only there a few moments and hardly said a word..." "Annette, for heaven's sake don't refuse me," the countess began, with a blush that looked very strange on her thin, dignified, elderly face, and she took the money from under the handkerchief. [2]
Honora had told them so, and colour was lent to her assertions by the fact that their mother, when they repeated this to her, only smiled sadly, and brushed her eyes with her handkerchief. [9]
We could see them lift their feet and put them down; we saw them swing their alpenstocks forward in unison, like so many pendulums, and then bear their weight upon them; we saw the lady wave her handkerchief. [5]

Short sentences using handkerchief

He took out his handkerchief. [6]
Hand me my handkerchief, dear. [9]

Sentences containing handkerchief two or more times

With a pained, shuddering little gasp she caught her handkerchief from her bosom, and, running one hand round his shoulder, quickly and gently caught away the spot of blood, and crumpled the handkerchief in her hand to hide it from him. [11]
In an instant he had whipped out a knife, cut a stick from one of the alders, knotted his handkerchief around the man's leg, ran the stick through the knot, and twisted the handkerchief until the blood ceased to flow. [9]

More example sentences with the word handkerchief in them

Mr Witherden, Sir, your handkerchief is hanging out of your pocket--would you allow me to--, As Mr Brass advanced to remedy this accident, the Notary shrunk from him with an air of disgust. [12]
The miniature was wrapped now in a silk handkerchief which Polly Ann had bought for me in Lexington. [9]
Ladies answered back with historiettes that would almost have made Queen Margaret of Navarre or even the great Elizabeth of England hide behind a handkerchief, but nobody hid here, but only laughed --howled, you may say. [5]
He mopped it with a dark-red handkerchief, stared at everything in the place save the gentleman in front of him, and wondered whether he had ever in his life been so uncomfortable. [9]
And as he wiped away her tears with his handkerchief he could scarcely believe his senses that this was the woman whose resistance had demanded all his force to overcome. [9]
Now I will wet your father's handkerchief and then we can go on again. [10]
Indeed, my clothes were by no means handsome, and save for my well-shaven face and clean handkerchief I was an ill-favoured spectacle; but I tried to bear my shoulders up as we marched through dark reeking corridors, and presently came suddenly into well-lighted passages. [11]
Then a handkerchief waved a greeting from the vessel to the men on shore, but the hand that held it was a woman's. [10]
The elderly lady was using her handkerchief too. [2]
His white handkerchief was hanging out of his pocket behind, as usual on Sundays--accidentally. [5]
Soon afterwards he was crowned, not duke, but king, and it was remarked that he held his lace handkerchief oftener than ever to his mouth. [10]
Mr. Gridley felt very warm indeed, uncomfortably so, and applied his handkerchief to his face. [6]
Crozier calmly picked up the handkerchief, saw the lettering, then went quietly to the door of the room and called Mrs. Tynan's name. [11]
The gentleman descends, unchecks the horses, wipes his brow, takes a drink at the spout and looks around, evidently remarking upon the lovely view, as he swings his handkerchief in an explanatory manner. [4]
In one thin, translucently white hand he held a handkerchief, while with the other he stroked the delicate mustache he had grown, moving his fingers slowly. [2]
Ned's first voyage to the Chinchas, but his fame had gone before him--the fame of being a man who would fight at the dropping of a handkerchief, when imposed upon, and would stand no nonsense. [5]
He was sent to prison for dipping his handkerchief in the blood of Sand, beheaded for liberty at Mannheim. [9]
The Seigneur seemed to draw himself up a little, and his hand grasped his handkerchief tightly for an instant; then he said: "Soon. [11]
The former went to Delia now and said a few cheery words, but, from behind her handkerchief, she begged him to leave her alone for a moment. [11]
So she resolved to ask the assistance of the landlady of The Pike, coughed with her handkerchief pressed over her lips, in order not to disturb the sleepers, and turned to leave the room. [10]
O'Meara cleared his throat and began gingerly to undo the handkerchief on his hand. [9]
Whatever Burlingame actually thought or believed, he could not now resist picking up the handkerchief and looking at it with a mocking smile. [11]
He took Judge Thornton aside and whispered the important question to him,--in his distress of mind, mistaking pockets and taking out his bandanna instead of his white handkerchief to wipe his forehead. [6]
He wore a thick, short coat, a red sash about his waist, a blue flannel shirt, and a loose red scarf, like a handkerchief, at his throat. [11]
To these remonstrances, the single gentleman answered not a word, but when the trunk was at last got into the bed-room, sat down upon it and wiped his bald head and face with his handkerchief. [12]
His coat at the shoulder was stained with blood, and there was a handkerchief about his head. [11]
He picked up the sewing she had dropped and looked at it as one would regard a relic of the dead; he lifted her handkerchief, kissed it, and put it in his breast. [11]
After speaking to the senior French officer, who came out of the house with a white handkerchief tied to his sword and announced that they surrendered, Dolokhov dismounted and went up to Petya, who lay motionless with outstretched arms. [2]
Kutuzov remained in the same place and without answering drew out a handkerchief. [2]
Being admitted to the presence he sat down before the clergyman, placed his fire-hat on an unfinished manuscript sermon under the minister's nose, took from it a red silk handkerchief, wiped his brow and heaved a sigh of dismal impressiveness, explanatory of his business. [5]
Without a word the old man stepped forward, and struck him across the mouth with his red cotton handkerchief. [11]
She flew into the next room, quite collected; fetched her handkerchief, snatched off the silken girdle that bound her waist, rushed back and helped the leech to tie the maniac's hands. [10]
Denisov, flushed after the mazurka and mopping himself with his handkerchief, sat down by Natasha and did not leave her for the rest of the evening. [2]
As we passed the light-ship I added an ulster and tied a handkerchief around the collar to hold it snug to my neck. [5]
Then I slung the knapsack in front of me, so that I could force it through the window first, and tying my handkerchief round the iron bars, I screwed it up with my stick. [11]
He readily entered the kitchen, still holding the handkerchief in his hand, but he did not give it to her. [11]
I will wet the handkerchief at intervals in the pauses. [10]
He pointed to the drops of perspiration which, spite of the wind sweeping through the hall, covered her brow: "You must use your handkerchief. [10]
Then one of the doors was pushed open a scant four inches, a scarlet madras handkerchief appeared in the crack above a yellow face. [9]
He paused in the door, with his red handkerchief half raised to his sweating face, and contemplated the daring reptile in the corner. [5]
At that toast, the count took out his handkerchief and, covering his face, wept outright. [2]
She went to the coffin, very soft, and kneeled down and looked in; then she put up her handkerchief, and I see she begun to cry, though I couldn't hear her, and her back was to me. [5]
The men perceived that he was in earnest, and while he spoke the sibyl went behind him, laid her hand on his shoulder, and wiped the perspiration from his brow with her handkerchief. [10]
There were indeed tears in her eyes, and drawing out her handkerchief to brush them away, she happened to let it fall. [12]
Whereupon he became suddenly embarrassed, and pulled out a handkerchief the size of a table napkin. [9]
You know the story of the handkerchief? [2]
Her father was standing near, and with smiling face she caught from his hand the handkerchief with which he was mopping his eyes, and kissed him, saying: "I learned that from the tunes you played on your anvil, dear smithy- man. [11]
He had never spoken with her, but one evening before his departure he picked up from the floor her handkerchief which she had dropped, and with more gallantry than honesty carried it off to Sicily. [4]
For caulking, one spared a handkerchief, another a stocking, and another a piece of shirt, till she was stuffed in all her fissures. [11]
No tradition is so amply verified as this of St. Veronica and her handkerchief. [5]
And that gold-spectacled sneak stood there, with a lying white handkerchief at his eyes. [11]
His brother and sisters struggled for the places nearest to him and disputed with one another who should bring him his tea, handkerchief, and pipe. [2]
She wore a simple silk gown, of a Quakerly gray, and she held a handkerchief folded square, as it had come from the laundress. [8]
Yet how brave she was, for she lifted her handkerchief, shook it a little, and smiled. [11]
With swift decision she twisted up her hair, threw a handkerchief over her head, and said: "Then come with me; the moon is still up; it would not be safe to carry a lamp. [10]
On the landing she stops to brush her eyes with her handkerchief. [9]
As she stooped, she lifted the handkerchief at her feet, and took from it a flaming bouquet. [6]
But you can't say I didn't warn you, Honora, that they are a horrid, selfish, fast lot," Lily Dallam declared, and brushed her eyes with her handkerchief. [9]
She omitted nothing save that Detricand had carried off the handkerchief, and she could not have told, if she had been asked, why she did not speak of it. [11]
There was a rustle in the gallery, which nobody noticed; a moment later the church door creaked; the minister raised his streaming eyes above his handkerchief, and stood transfixed! [5]
When he had rubbed awhile, he gave me his own handkerchief to dry my face; and so perfect was his courtesy, it was impossible to do otherwise than meet him as he meant and showed for the moment. [11]
He was a river-driver of stalwart proportions, with a red handkerchief round his neck, and with loose corded trousers tucked into his boots. [11]
When Anna Mikhaylovna returned from Count Bezukhov's the money, all in clean notes, was lying ready under a handkerchief on the countess' little table, and Anna Mikhaylovna noticed that something was agitating her. [2]
As he presently returned alone the Arab saw him pick up a handkerchief that the young lady had left on the table, and hastily press it to his lips as he went towards the barge. [10]
She wears a reddish check handkerchief, cast loosely around her neck, and it was plain that her other one is slow getting back from the wash. [5]
Besides, he constantly raised a large linen handkerchief to his face, and his huge chest laboured for breath as he hastily repeated to Eva and the abbess what he had just announced to Els in a few rapid words. [10]
He did not raise his hat until he stood directly in front of her, and while mopping his broad, clamp brow and plump cheeks with his handkerchief, she read in his features the confirmation of her worst fears. [10]
Every time Joan put her handkerchief to her eyes you could see a little quiver of emotion crinkle along the faces of the files. [5]
He then answers properly to Miss Gordon Cumming's flash-light picture of him--as a person who is dressed in "a turban and a pocket handkerchief. [5]
He returned the pressure, and then searched his coat tails, found a handkerchief, and blew his nose violently. [9]
Her new acquaintance plied the handkerchief, his face a brighter brick-red than ever. [9]
But now, with pieces of a silk handkerchief tied to the whistle and filled with air, I made a toy which, when squeezed, sent out a weird lament. [11]
Meanwhile Jacques had picked up and handed to Gaston a letter, dropped when he drew out his handkerchief. [11]
On the topmost peak of Sinai whence the Pharanite sentinels were accustomed to watch the distance, a handkerchief was waving as a signal that the enemy were approaching. [10]
When the Saviour passed there, she came out, full of womanly compassion, and spoke pitying words to him, undaunted by the hootings and the threatenings of the mob, and wiped the perspiration from his face with her handkerchief. [5]
At last Charles passed his handkerchief across his perspiring brow, and called to the majordomo. [10]
He put the paper on his lap, and while he polished his spectacles with his handkerchief he said, "Are you the new editor? [5]
Denisov smiled, took out of his sabretache a handkerchief that diffused a smell of perfume, and put it to Nesvitski's nose. [2]
He also took out his monocle frequently, rubbed it with his handkerchief, and screwed it in again, staring straight before him much of the time. [11]
Presently he took out his handkerchief and coughed into it nervously. [11]
Slowly he drew out an old yellow handkerchief and wiped his cheeks, his eyes fixed with a kind of impersonal scrutiny on Barry Whalen and the scene before him. [11]
During the ascent our eyes were bandaged, and when the handkerchief was removed a marvellous picture appeared before our astonished gaze. [10]
The first ten or fifteen times I wanted my handkerchief I didn't seem to care; I got along, and said never mind, it isn't any matter, and dropped it out of my mind. [5]
It was at once answered with a white handkerchief of Joan's. [11]
He wiped it off with his handkerchief, then blowing out the light, he calmly opened the door of the hut, locked it, went out, and moved on slowly towards the house. [11]
Take that handkerchief off of her head, and cut her hair close, and keep her temples cool, and put some drawing plasters to the soles of her feet, and give her some of my pilulae compositae, and follow them with some doses of sal polychrest. [6]
In a corner of the stained handkerchief they found the word, Blanche. [11]
Her clothes were of the finest quality, and her little handkerchief had worked into the corner of it a coronet, with the initials "E de T" beside it. [9]
Tray after tray of pennies was brought out and emptied, till at last the stranger paused, handed the spoon to the landlord, drew out a fine white handkerchief and dusted his fingers, standing silent for a moment and smiling upon the crowd. [11]
The very honesty of his words seemed, for an instant, to disconcert her; and she produced a torn lace handkerchief, which she thrust in her eyes. [9]
In the moment of her sharpest pain she did not forget the duties of her under office, but dried the dying man's moist forehead with her handkerchief, even while the dews of agony were glistening on her own. [6]
That little spot of blood in the crumpled handkerchief which had flashed past his eye was the fatal message he had sought to elude for months past. [11]
The young couple now perceived their approach, and Cordula, rising, waved her handkerchief to them. [10]
Mr. Bixby was now fanning himself with the blue handkerchief. [9]
Nobody took any notice of her and Philip, she thought; they stood there waiting and waiting--why, there was M. Savary dit Detricand in the doorway, waving a handkerchief at her, and saying: "I've found it--I've found it! [11]
But Dolokhov did not go away; he untied the handkerchief around his head, pulled it off, and showed the blood congealed on his hair. [2]
He blew his nose hard, with a bandana handkerchief. [11]
Then turning, he muffled up his face against the crisp, harsh air (there was design in this also), and, waving a white handkerchief, advanced to the door of the store-room. [11]
Let me introduce Mr Abel Garland, sir--his young master; my articled pupil, sir, and most particular friend:--my most particular friend, sir,' repeated the Notary, drawing out his silk handkerchief and flourishing it about his face. [12]
Here the young man's voice failed and, weeping, with unfeigned emotion he covered his agitated face with his handkerchief. [10]

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