What is "pocket-handkerchief"

Usage examples of "pocket-handkerchief".

Susanna the next morning went in to Alette, to inquire how she had slept and so on, she found Harald already with his sister, and around her were outspread the linen, the neckerchiefs, the pocket-handkerchiefs, the tablecloths, etc.

Colston looked at the glove - for the ironmonger had left a mark on it - and that she wiped it with her pocket-handkerchief.

He puts one rapidly by Lord Squeams--Lady Squeams, giving a pinch to her dog, which begins to howl piteously, puts her pocket-handkerchief to her face, and rushes away as for the cabin.

Fairfax, unbewildered, put her thumb firmly on the wrist just above the wound and instructed the doctor how to use his pocket-handkerchief as a tourniquet.

But Aunt Eleanor, with her pocket-handkerchief before her face, hit, unwomanlike, the nail on the head.

The mayor, constraining himself to keep awake a little longer, gave Domini away, while Suzanne dropped tears into a pocket-handkerchief edged with rose-coloured frilling, the gift of Monsieur Helmuth.

Alessandro Polonia, sold wash-balls, essences, tobacco, and pocket-handkerchiefs, ran errands for gentlemen, and lent money in a small way.

He reaches Trafalgar Street and the Whip Tavern, another of those little pocket-handkerchief pubs so small that if you sneezed you could send the entire clientele home with head colds.

I want some fine linen for twenty-four chemises, some dimity for stays and petticoats, some muslin, some cambric for pocket-handkerchiefs, and many other articles which I should be very glad to find in your shop, for I am a stranger here, and God knows in what hands I am going to trust myself!

The two Annexes hurried out their pocket-handkerchiefs, and I almost expected a semihysteric cataclysm.

She threw open a door and I went into a chamber, where, to my unspeakable surprise, instead of finding Mr. Skimpole stretched upon the bed or prostrate on the floor, I found him standing before the fire smiling at Richard, while Richard, with a face of great embarrassment, looked at a person on the sofa, in a white great-coat, with smooth hair upon his head and not much of it, which he was wiping smoother and making less of with a pocket-handkerchief.

But you--I shudder to think what you would have been-- a curate in debt for horse-hire and cambric pocket-handkerchiefs!