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He had barely reached the foot of the steps when the door above him opened, and Owain in his furred bed-gown came out, large and dark against the light from within, the squire who had run to arouse him with news of the coming close at his shoulder.
His Disposition 2010
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The young girls of the household wore no cap, but their hair was bound up with a snood; * and they were dressed in a short bed-gown and petticoat of the same colour.
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The way to prevent them from shrinking — The modern pyjamas immensely superior to the old-fashioned bed-gown — The clothing would be modified according to the season of the year.
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The way to prevent them from shrinking — The modern pyjamas immensely superior to the old-fashioned bed-gown — The clothing would be modified according to the season of the year.
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Sure enough, when I did come back, she was sitting prettying herself before her glass, wearing a bed-gown that would have made me a small handkerchief.
Flashman Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1969
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She then put on a long and wide open chemise, entirely trimmed with lace, and afterwards a white taffety bed-gown.
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I was that provoked to think I should be treated as if I was nothing and nobody, by a dirty foreigner, who went about in a bed-gown through the public streets, that it was all I could do to hold myself.
The Beetle Richard Marsh
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The sight of his own image, puffed and blinking in nightcap, bed-gown, and slippers, when he came upon it in a long mirror, set him chuckling.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett
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She was quite close to the King, who was in his night-cap, she also, and in her bed-gown, both between the sheets, which were only very imperfectly hidden by the papers.
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The King was almost stretched out upon pillows with a little bed-gown of white satin; the Queen sitting upright,
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