night-dress

For the US to co-opt, basically by force and threats, Pakistan to be a bulwark and a rather flimsy night-dress to cover their rather ugly privates up in Afghanistan can only best be summarized as a 'Crime against Humanity'.

Pakistan will implode if the US does not leave Afghanistan 2011

Instead of the damp grass, he lay on a couch of more than Oriental luxury; and some kind hands had, during his repose, stripped him of the cassock of chamois which he wore under his armour, and substituted a night-dress of the finest linen and a loose gown of silk.

The Talisman 2008

And so caused his boots to be pulled off, and his night-gown and night-cap and slippers to be sent for; and made the Emperor stay till he could go in his night-dress, since he might not go as a soldier.

Some thoughts on future politics 2005

His mother, in her long white night-dress, was kneeling at the other end of the chamber at her prie-dieu, absorbed in devotion.

Westward Ho! 2007

In the straight, falling folds of the night-dress she looked cold like a block of marble; while I, too, was turned into stone by the terrific clamour in the hall.

The Arrow of Gold 2006

It was cold and dark in there; but before I closed the door behind me the dim light from the hall showed me Dona Rita standing on the very same spot where I had left her, statuesque in her night-dress.

The Arrow of Gold 2006

The skirt of whose night-dress — as it seemed to Johnny — he saw whisking away, in at another door.

The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

He was in white, like the figure — necessarily so, because he had his night-dress on.

To Be Read At Dusk, by Charles Dickens 2004

She lit a bedside candle, changed into her night-dress, climbed into bed, and settled in for a read.

Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

It was nothing, however, to him if old Lady Demolines, who was always too ill to be seen, chose to roam about her own house in her night-dress.

The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004