What is "handkerchiefs"

Usage examples of "handkerchiefs".

Men working in the fields wore goggles and tied handkerchiefs around their noses to keep the dirt out.

She wrapped it in one of her fine lawn handkerchiefs and went out of the room.

Men began to wear their handkerchiefs in their sleeves and some foppish lieutenants carried swagger sticks.

One day, in spite of Cecile, he threw himself upon the wardrobe and carried off a bundle of linen, handkerchiefs, towels, napkins, and sheets, intending to sell them.

Inside her jacket she stowed her flat wallet of paper handkerchiefs and the bag containing her long-stemmed pipe with its tiny brass bowl.

She separated one of her paper handkerchiefs from the folded stack of them in her wallet and twisted it.

He slipped his travel permit into the flat wallet that contained his paper handkerchiefs and put it into the front opening of the loose, faded jacket that had lost its shape at the shoulders.

He laid the coins inside one of his paper handkerchiefs, twisted the ends, and gave both to her.

Willow brand tobacco, a packet of cheap paper handkerchiefs, and a heavy paper folding wallet in which to put them.

Kasane cooked supper, Cat had cut her paper handkerchiefs into strips and written out fifty or sixty more of them.

With both hands Cat extended a stiffened silk case with a packet of folded paper handkerchiefs and bowed slightly over it.

Hanshiro gently put his stack of paper handkerchiefs in her hand, then looked on helplessly.

They put the bag of plums between them and eat the plums out of it, one after another, wiping off with their handkerchiefs the plumjuice that dribbles out of their mouths and spitting the plumstones slowly out between the railings.

Big strong men, officers of the peace and genial giants of the royal Irish constabulary, were making frank use of their handkerchiefs and it is safe to say that there was not a dry eye in that record assemblage.

Mrs Bellingham, Mrs Yelverton Barry and the Honourable Mrs Mervyn Talboys rush forward with their handkerchiefs to sop it up.