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Usage examples of nightcap.

One night when the old countess, in nightcap and dressing jacket, without her false curls, and with her poor little knob of hair showing under her white cotton cap, knelt sighing and groaning on a rug and bowing to the ground in prayer, her door creaked and Natasha, also in a dressing jacket with slippers on her bare feet and her hair in curlpapers, ran in.

Sancho responded that they had, but he was missing three nightcaps that were worth three cities.

Rachel laughed, her smile returning at the sight of the two girls in white nightcaps and heavy robes.

The fishermen were drawing their flat-bottomed boats up higher, and carrying their nets and ropes within doors for shelter, while a few strong old men, in their nightcaps and blue guernseys, were stolidly smoking in the rain and nodding their heads out at the sea.

We talked for a while until the girls decided to go to bed, then Ashton suggested a nightcap.

He wore his cloth nightcap and striped nightshirt and, all in all, he was as warm as a honeycake in a dwarfs oven.

I saw the face of a young man whom I did not know, his head covered with a nightcap, but the rest perfectly naked, as indeed was my mistress.

Then came a brewage, which the farmer called his nightcap, of which he insisted on Mr.

She was so stupid and so irritating, she couldn't imagine how her brother could bear her, except that she seemed very coy and clingy when they left, and she was still giggling when they got I I into his car to go out for a nightcap.

I did so, fretting and fuming on my way as if I were some great person, and I was taken to a room where a man in an elegant nightcap was lying beside a very pretty woman.

Branicki, who was dressed in a magnificent gown and supported by pillows and cushions, greeted me by taking off his nightcap.

Carey had suggested a nightcap in the Belvedere Lounge, but Myra replied that if she heard the band play "Arrivederci Roma" one more time, she'd swear off spaghetti forever.

At Jack's first words to Mr Yarrow the Captain of the Fleet's eyebrows shot up under his nightcap.

Many of the couples were heading for the foyer of the new Royal Netherlands Hotel and a late-night snack at the European coffee shop where she had had a nightcap coffee with Captain Jannelli, their pilot.

I observed, smiling at the thought of a nightcapped Ulysses, brandishing his implement of destruction.