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  • I will particularly attend to Mr Wes [word cut off] request, and in due time by writing take down the hump on his back as easily as I would take off my night-cap. —

    Letter 305 2009

  • During the night-cap, Lissie danced around with far more abandon than she'd shown earlier in the night and shouted the tune's pro-drunk driving lines with a big smile.

    In concert: Lissie at 9:30 Club Dave McKenna 2011

  • I mention this to put you on your guard, to defy the Devil and all his works, and to make you, in spite of all seeming hindrances, put your night-cap (if you wear one) in your pocket, your hat on your head, and off!

    New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn 2007

  • His dress was merely a long wrapping gown of green stuff, a pair of red slippers, and a woollen night-cap of the same colour; while, as the symbol of his profession, he held a rod in his hand.

    Cecilia 2008

  • The Latin-grammar master had a spare night-cap lent him, and a long-tail coat, which he wore hind side before.

    A Holiday Romance 2007

  • The lady wore a bandana tied over her night-cap, the strings of the latter article of dress being tied so tightly under the chin that her puffy cheeks stood out on either side.

    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

  • Your wife need only bring her night-cap; all is ready for her.

    A Marriage Contract 2007

  • A thrill of excitement ran through Helene and Gustave and the General and his wife; but neither Abel, with the night-cap strings just tied under his chin, nor Moina awoke.

    A Woman of Thirty 2007

  • The Latin-grammar master had a spare night-cap lent him, and a long-tail coat, which he wore hind side before.

    A Holiday Romance 2007

  • He had on his head a rusty cotton night-cap; as he had no cravat, his neck was visible, red with cold and wrinkled, in contrast with the threadbare collar of his old dressing-gown.

    The Commission in Lunacy 2007

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