A square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory.
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Examples for "handkerchief "
Examples for "handkerchief "
1 In fact, he carried nothing but the lunch wrapped in the handkerchief .
2 One lady drops her handkerchief ; a gentleman picks it up; she blushes.
3 As for the handkerchief and the revolver, they were in the tool-bag.
4 The handkerchief wadded up in his left hand was almost entirely red.
5 The way I feel right now, I'd suck on his tubercular handkerchief .
1 I'll be here throughout the procedure to protect you against any hanky - panky .
2 So no more hanky - panky , just GI Joes and Barbies from now on.
3 He wipes his glasses with a hanky and puts them back on.
4 Tucking the hanky into my pocket, I headed for the driveway ramp.
5 Now use your hanky , and let's be jolly-andbegin to enjoy ourselves.
1 Slidell reached behind his back and yanked a hankie from his pocket.
2 Harker coughed into a hankie that was stained and wet with phlegm.
3 Marshall subsequently became best known for more conventional romantic comedies and hankie - endangering weepies.
4 I don't have room for so much as a hankie in my closets.
5 She got her hankie out of her pocket and sneezed lightly three times.
1 Only the mis-remembered hankey - pankey of the Dead Old Man.
2 Be sure if you think any one has suddenly changed his character unaccountably, there has been some hankey - pankey with that person's Doowee.
3 He is working in the chain-gang to which Hankey was made sub-overseer.
4 Hankey fell into the surf, and never moved after the first blow.
5 One felt with Hankey that he was born for whatever was arduous.
6 Hankey then shows that this war is articulating religion as never before.
7 As I told Hankey , I have not yet made up my mind.
8 May 16th.- Asub-overseer , amannamed Hankey , has been talking to me.
9 Mrs. Hankey , as was her wont, groaned both in spirit and in person.
10 The company appointed Evans Hankey as vice president of industrial design.
11 There was also Sir Maurice Hankey , the Belgian Minister, the American Ambassador, Mr.
12 Apparently you attach as much importance to rosy cheeks as Mother Hankey does.
13 Hankey has been too long away from executive work to realize that difficulty.
14 Hankey , who is not a bad-hearted man, gave him the sprig.
15 They say they're afraid you'll murder them as you murdered Hankey .
16 By the way, is Mrs. Hankey as melancholy as ever, Chris?
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