pyjamas

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Bolted What on earth makes you think that He's taken all sorts of things--pyjamas, razors, all his pockethandkerchiefs... I had to look through his drawers to find those letters he told me to answer Sutton had gone through into the slip of white tiled lavatory beyond.

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  • The firelight flickered on the walls and ceiling; on a chair before the glow his pyjamas were laid out to warm. —  Ruined City by Nevil Shute
  • By the time he had finished filling it in, replacing the turf and patting it down to match, then scattering the unused earth around the orchard, the sun was well up, he was grimy, sweaty, and exhausted, and his pyjamas were a perfect disgrace. —  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March-April 2005
  • Before all the servants, mind you, she accused him of that disgraceful affair in Pont Street when he was turned out in his pyjamas--and they half ripped off him--by Lord Tango's brother. —  The Man Who Lost Himself
  • And despite the perfume of the eau de Cologne which had drenched pillow and pyjamas, the smell of whisky spread terror to the crowd. —  The Hill A Romance of Friendship
  • The gutters of the station were turned into burbling brooks and the grass plot into a morass Behind the screen on the south verandah sat zu Pfeiffer in his pink silk pyjamas, a scowl upon his brow. —  Witch-Doctors
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