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  • Satan only could tell what; here was a white night-capped man coming bodily from the grave; here was my own sister Annie committed to a highwayman, and mother in distraction; most of all — here, there, and where — was my Lorna stolen, dungeoned, perhaps outraged.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • The doll, duly night-capped and night-gowned, lay in its cradle; she was rocking it to sleep, with an air of the most perfect faith in its possession of sentient and somnolent faculties; her eyes, at the same time, being engaged with a picture-book, which lay open on her lap.

    Villette 2003

  • Wort, in turn, was ignominiously night-capped by the sheet, for it completely covered him.

    The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play Edward A. Rand

  • A window was hastily thrown up, and the justice put forth his night-capped head, and with more wrath than became his dignity, ordered them off; and in requital for their calling him out of bed in the cold, generously wished them in the warmest place.

    The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 Henry C. Watson

  • At the same moment, Mrs Valentine opened her window and put out a night-capped head into the moonlight, and craning it all round, to see what was the matter, and seeing nothing extraordinary, put it in again, with a slight shiver.

    Wilton School or, Harry Campbell's Revenge Fred E. Weatherly

  • MISS CAREY: (Poking her night-capped head out of curtains.)

    Writing for Vaudeville Brett Page

  • From time to time some Japanese, night-capped in his blue kerchief, opens a window to see who these noisy madcaps can be, dashing by so rapidly and so late.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • So he rapped at a window, and soon a night-capped head appeared, and after some parley the master consented to let me have his equipage.

    Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Austin Bidwell

  • Upon his back, night-capped head on pillow propped, he lay as the minute-hand of his clock ticked towards ten.

    Once Aboard the Lugger 1925

  • One moment, the salt wind was whistling round my night-capped head; the next, I was crushed almost double under the weight of the helmet.

    A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools Percy Lubbock 1922

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