neck-cloth

She grappled with it concretely, making a cat-like leap for the murderer and gripping his neck-cloth with both her hands.

THE UNEXPECTED 2010

In the frontispiece you see Mr. Punch examining the pictures in his gallery — a portly, well-dressed, middle-aged, respectable gentleman, in a white neck-cloth, and a polite evening costume — smiling in a very bland and agreeable manner upon one of his pleasant drawings, taken out of one of his handsome portfolios.

John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character 2006

Smirke was a man perfectly faultless at a tea-table, wore a curl on his fair forehead, and tied his neck-cloth with a melancholy grace.

The History of Pendennis 2006

It still held my neck-cloth in its misshapen hands, and by that I knew that it had been set upon my trail by Lord Valerian.

The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

It still held my neck-cloth in its misshapen hands, and by that I knew that it had been set upon my trail by Lord Valerian.

The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

He had made a little cuddy there inside his inner sarcenet, and down his plaited neck-cloth ran a sly companionway to it, so that his eyes might steal a visit to the joy that was over his heart and in it.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

Then he took from a desk which was fixed to the wall a locket bright with diamonds, and kissed it, and fastened it beneath his neck-cloth.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

I cried, with John hanging up in the air by the scruff of his neck-cloth, but holding still by his knife and fork, and a goose-leg in between his lips,

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Soon afterwards he showed his sense of the gravity of the situation by mounting a black silk neck-cloth.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

Empires had risen and fallen while he experimented with the crease of a neck-cloth and criticised the cut of a coat.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004