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  • I love Kristin LeMoine's Kri-Kerchief, which is available as a

    Next New Networks 2009

  • I love Kristin LeMoine's Kri-Kerchief, which is available as a

    Next New Networks 2009

  • I also finished knitting up a second Kitschy Kerchief (from Stitch ‘n’ Bitch).

    Creative Every Day, Part 14: Knitting On and On and On « Looking for Roots 2010

  • To persist and to come up with The Rialto Sanction and The Kerchief Implication was the work of not too many more moments.

    Christopher Hitchens on the cultural fatwa Hitchens, Christopher 2009

  • Among the other interiors hung close by is Monet's "The Red Kerchief: Portrait of Madame Monet" (1873), which also suggests the play of a dark interior lit only from outdoors, but here the woman is outside looking in.

    Not All His Inspirations Were Creepy 2009

  • Kerchief to mouth, he bowed low when he reached Urish's throne.

    The Vanishing Tower Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1970

  • Clap In and Clap Out, Post Office, and I Lost My Kerchief Yesterday, made for the young folk of the mountains a most happy and (to them of yesterday) a most hilarious occasion.

    Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945

  • See here now, ” Bob went on, becoming rapid again, and holding up a scarlet woollen Kerchief with an embroidered wreath in the corner; “here’s a thing to make a lass’s mouth water, an’ on’y two shillin’—an’ why?

    II. Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob’s Thumb. Book V—Wheat and Tares 1917

  • But when Biberli pointed out the surest way of restoring the endangered reputation of the woman he loved, and begged him to imagine how much more beautiful she would look in the white bridal veil than in her mourning Riese -- [Kerchief of fine linen, arranged like a veil] -- he ordered him to keep silence.

    In the Fire of the Forge — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • Riese -- [Kerchief of fine linen, arranged like a veil] -- he ordered him to keep silence.

    In the Fire of the Forge — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867

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