night-gowns

Next morning our boxes were still detained at the custom-house, and my brothers and sisters and myself got some bad tea and some good bread-and-butter, and sat round in a circle on the floor in our night-gowns, with our food in the middle.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

Greco, where those contrasting planes are parallel, a regular vaudeville played by personages in night-gowns, whose Well-known names ought to have been sent to some successor of that Ferrari whose fashionable notes it had so often amused him and myself to parody.

Time Regained 2003

We broke open a door to find seven men in night-gowns sitting on unmade beds in a great room, boiling toffee.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

These “Houris of Jahannam” were habited in long night-gowns dyed blue to conceal want of washing, and the squalid children had about a yard of the same material wrapped round their waists for all toilette.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Then we put our night-gowns over our dresses, and were laid peacefully in bed when Betsey came up, earlier than usual; for it was evident that Miss Cotton felt a little suspicious at our sudden weariness.

An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

Around the tents swarmed turbaned diggers, who looked as if they had come out in their night-gowns, dressing-gowns, and bath-sheets.

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

When they were in their white night-gowns, they all dropped upon their knees, and one of the teachers said a short prayer after which they all joined with her in the Lord's

What Two Children Did Charlotte E. Chittenden

Why, he was shown into the bathroom, and given one of Penloe's night-gowns, and after he had taken his bath she had him sleep in her spare bedroom.

A California Girl Edward Eldridge

Their confidence in me was such, that at the sound of my voice they had all left their beds, and assembled in the courtyard in their night-gowns.

Cat and Dog Memoirs of Puss and the Captain Julia Charlotte Maitland

Then it rose in a gay carol, a sweet gushing thanksgiving, and the children came tumbling down in their night-gowns; they rushed to the door of the sitting-room, and there beside his improvised bed stood the young musician, playing on his violin as if all the world were his audience.

Harper's Young People, December 23, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various