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While the tourists around them admire the decorative mosaics encircled by seagrass and photograph tumbled columns bleached by the Crimean sun, the worshipers -- mostly handkerchiefed old women -- focus their sights on a large limestone church that rises from the center of this archaeological landscape, as incongruous as the Russian and Ukrainian warships moored in the harbors beyond.

Legacies of a Slavic Pompeii 2002

No guide so wonderfully chapped, so brightly handkerchiefed, so amazingly shirted, or so loudly perfumed as Shorty.

I Married a Ranger Dama Margaret Smith 1932

Soon we were near enough to see a tiny figure with handkerchiefed head come down across the field and stand waiting for us at the cove above a curve of pebble beach.

Green Island 1910

She was the tiniest little bent old creature, her handkerchiefed head was quick and alert, and her eyes were bright with excitement and feeling, but the rest of her was much the worse for age; she could hardly move, poor soul, as if she had only a make-believe framework of a body under a shoulder-shawl and thick petticoats.

The Queen's Twin and Other Stories Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

Yesterday I stopped at the little local farmer stand and while I was fondling the fresh corn a nearby woman started to complain to the handkerchiefed farmwife that 'food just costs so much nowadays' and then rapidly segued into a litany of personal and extended misfortunes.

The Housing Bubble Blog 2008

Yesterday I stopped at the little local farmer stand and while I was fondling the fresh corn a nearby woman started to complain to the handkerchiefed farmwife that 'food just costs so much nowadays' and then rapidly segued into a litany of personal and extended misfortunes.

The Housing Bubble Blog 2008

These latter "tumbled up," with no other addition to the shirts in which they had left their cots, then their trousers, a light state of costume to which those who were "boxed up" in their pea jackets and great coats on the forecastle, soon reduced themselves also -- not but that the fog admitted of much warmer raiment, but that their activity might be unimpeded -- handkerchiefed heads and tucked up sleeves, with the habiliments which we have named, being the most approved fighting dress in the navy.

The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Volume 2 John Richardson 1824

These latter "tumbled up," with no other addition to the shirts in which they had left their cots, then their trousers, a light state of costume to which those who were "boxed up" in their pea jackets and great coats on the forecastle, soon reduced themselves also -- not but that the fog admitted of much warmer raiment, but that their activity might be unimpeded -- handkerchiefed heads and tucked up sleeves, with the habiliments which we have named, being the most approved fighting dress in the navy.

The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Complete John Richardson 1824

a tiny figure with handkerchiefed head come down across the field and stand waiting for us at the cove above a curve of pebble beach.

The Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett 1879