"Handkercher" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sorting out of your fine things as come up from the wash, and I found one o' her lace handkerchers among yourn, fotch up by mistake. So I jes took it and went down them back stairs as leads from this room down to hern, to give her back her handkercher; when jes as I got into her room, I seen her slip outen the other door leading into the hall. So after her I goes, to give her her handkercher—which I thought it was best to give it intor her own hands, than to put it ...
— Cruel As The Grave • Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth
... tell her about that there handkercher, poor thing,' said one to another 'maybe they're not in ...
— Poppy's Presents • Mrs O. F. Walton
... better life," 'e goes on, "an' stop puttin' baccy ash in my pocket, an' dustin' my boots with my handkercher, an' all those little things that a ...
— Our Elizabeth - A Humour Novel • Florence A. Kilpatrick
... is a ritche handkercher, Where you shall find in golden letters wrought My place of byrthe, ...
— A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV. • Editor: A.H. Bullen
... on account of a uprore made by the capting, who stopt the Bote to go ashore and smash in the windows of a grosery. He was brought back in about a hour, with his hed dun up in a red handkercher, his eyes bein swelled up orful, and his nose very much out of jint. He was bro't aboard on a shutter by his crue, and deposited on the cabin floor, the passenjers all risin up in their births pushing the red curtains aside & lookin out to see what the matter was. "Why ...
— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 7 • Charles Farrar Browne
... Delijah ass Saampson. An' you know how he anseh her? He assed a riddle to her. An' likewise this my sweet riddle to you: Is I the Saampson o' yo' hope an' dream an' will you be my Deli——Aw! now, don't whisk away like that an' gag yo'seff with yo' handkercher! I's a lawful ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable
... wept, and still the bright Inamour'd god of day, With his soft handkercher of light, Kist the ...
— Lucasta • Richard Lovelace |
