I perceived old Simon in his leather skull-cap sitting on the top of Tyburn tree, with his handkercher a-hanging down ready to strangle me.
Thence home, and upon Tower Hill saw about 3 or 400 seamen get together; and one standing upon a pile of bricks made his sign with his handkercher upon his stick, and called all the rest to him, and several shouts they gave.
At last met my Lord Mayor in Canning-street, like a man spent, with a handkercher about his neck.
All of a suddent I felt myself grabbed by my coat collar behind, and my neck-handkercher and collar drawn tight around my throat till I couldn't breathe.
Mebbe she reckoned so, too, for she asked me to give you the handkercher I sent ye.
Jake Parmlee, ez picked him up outer the ditch, says that he was half choked, and his black silk neck-handkercher was pulled tight around his throat.
And giving him many thankes for his good warning, presently takes the Chaine from about his necke, and tying it up fast in a handkercher put it up into his sleeue saying.
At tea, my prisoner got up to fetch her pocket handkercher from the bedroom where the bonnets was; she was rather a long time gone and came back a little out of wind.
You remember me as give you somethink handsome for a handkercher wot she had left?
I guess you dropped this handkercher on your way, didn’t ye?
I returned em gallantly, wiped my face with my handkercher, and vowed that handkercher shood henceforth be kept sacred.
I noticed one gushin maiden uv thirty-seven wavin her handkercher ez tho she was gettin so much per wave, and had rent to pay that nite.
I stopped the carriage, met the patriotic female, called her attention to the incident, and handed her my handkercher which hed, four years before, wiped her spittle.
He wuz a promisin yooth," sed Seward, a puttin his handkercher to his eyes, "but the atmosphere uv the White House wuz too much for him.
At last met my Lord Mayor in Canningstreet, like a man spent, with a handkercher about his neck.
I didn't know what in nature to talk about--so I jest took my red silk handkercher and gave it a flirt out of my pocket, and then put it back agin.
Illustration: "So I bolted the last spoonful of presarves, and took out my red silk handkercher to wipe my mouth.
You help, Mr Rob, sir, and I'll lay up some of my cotton handkercher for the snood.
At noon home to dinner, where my wife and I fell out, I being displeased with her cutting away a lacehandkercher sewed about the neck down to her breasts almost, out of a belief, but without reason, that it is the fashion.
It's one of the Spanish chaps with a red handkercher tied round his head, and him and the old priest is friends, for they are a hugging one another.
Didn't he look fine with his silk handkercher round his head and his pistols in his scarf?
Then take up the hat, and take the handkercher and shake it, saying, that's gone, then shew them the money in the Basin of water.
Then cloze up handsomely the knot, which will bee yet somewhat loose, and pull the handkercher so with your right hand, as the left hand end may be neere to the knot: then will it seeme to be a true and firme knot.
For some of the Frogs had taken up the notion that it must have been he--why else, they asked, did the coroner and the rest of 'em want to see his green handkercher shook out?
Teal's green handkercher from a chair and ran to the Well with it; he was too frightened to go and see after King, thinking he had killed him; and he sat down outside the Well and made as if he went to sleep.
He hollered and cussed, for all he was a Puritan; and, haven respect unto my neighbours, I stuffed a handkercher into his mouth.
Well, I mixed a dose all fresh afore his eyes, and got a long wooden spoon, and slipped the handkercher out o' his mouth and the dose in.
Them as has black gloves can wear them, but by carrying a clean handkercher real conspicuous, the gloom will be brightened some.
Well, you can sort of wind yer handkercher around your hands," comforted Isa.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "handkercher" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
