neck-handkerchief

• “The constables, also, discovered, between the bed and sacking of the unhappy man, a shirt and neck-handkerchief both marked with the initials of his name, and both hideously besmeared with the blood of the victim.”

  Thou Art the Man

• “Then Mrs. Bonner invested money in some bargains in linen-drapery, which might be useful at the Clavering Arms, and bought a red and yellow neck-handkerchief, which Blanche could see at once was intended for Mr. Lightfoot.”

  The History of Pendennis

• “Spoon Hall for that coat and the coloured neck-handkerchief on the previous day; and someone, most maliciously, told the story abroad.”

  Phineas Redux

• “He had on a blue satin waistcoat, a blue neck-handkerchief which was fastened beneath his throat with a coral ring, and very loose blue trousers which almost concealed his feet.”

  Barchester Towers

• “So the page hunted hither and thither, but Fanfaronade was no more to be found than the Princess, the dagger, or the neck-handkerchief!”

  The Red Fairy Book

• “And the Queen asked for her neck-handkerchief, that she might look smart.”

  The Red Fairy Book

• “I remember to have met with a sentence, in a book of education, that made me smile: ‘It would be needless to caution you against putting your hand, by chance, under your neck-handkerchief, for a modest woman never did so!’”

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

• “Take off his neck-handkerchief, Harcourt, and run you, Riches, to the stream close by, where we first sat down, and get some water.”

  Emilie the Peacemaker

• “Opening her neck-handkerchief she told him to shoot if he dared.”

  Woman on the American Frontier

• “It was with a vivid impression of Charliet's none too clean neck-handkerchief playing”

  The La Chance Mine Mystery

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