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She was probably photographed to demonstrate what the state of her night-clothes were like, in case questions were raised later.
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She was probably photographed to demonstrate what the state of her night-clothes were like, in case questions were raised later.
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The painting depicts the folk of an English village getting out of their graves, in their night-clothes, stretching and yawning, as though they have simply woken up in bed.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010
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The painting depicts the folk of an English village getting out of their graves, in their night-clothes, stretching and yawning, as though they have simply woken up in bed.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010
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They had their pistols and they took me in my night-clothes and carried me from home.
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Here they found the unfortunate girl seated, or rather couched like a hare upon its form — her head-gear dishevelled, her night-clothes torn and dabbled with blood, her eyes glazed, and her features convulsed into a wild paroxysm of insanity.
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It proved so; for although she awoke from her trance with some appearance of calmness, and suffered her night-clothes to be changed, or put in order, yet so soon as she put her hand to her neck, as if to search for the for the fatal flue ribbon, a tide of recollections seemed to rush upon her, which her mind and body were alike incapable of bearing.
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I, in my degree, have suffered unspeakable agitation of mind from taking the chair at a public dinner at the London Tavern in my night-clothes, which not all the courtesy of my kind friend and host MR. BATHE could persuade me were quite adapted to the occasion.
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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He sprang from his couch, seized his gun, and, in his night-clothes, rushed from the house.
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You can always add warmth to the bed by means of blankets or comforters or night-clothes and need not rely on your sheets.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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