I have gone into a parlor, and had a lady say when she saw me fumbling in my pockets: 'Doctor, your handkerchief is in your back pocket.
Oh, I guess I musta got the wrong door," he said, twisting his dirty handkerchief nervously between skinny fingers.
The manager of the motel took out a large, clean handkerchief and mopped his face and neck when we drove in.
The principal spokesman of the group, a dignified creature with a glistening bald head, was waxing very eloquent indeed when suddenly he stopped, coughed, and delicately adjusted the white handkerchief in his pocket.
Somoza pressed a saturatedhandkerchief over his face.
The handkerchief I flung over his face contained a pretty strong dose.
Somoza returned after his inspection, and reported that the effects of the saturated handkerchief had worn off.
She searched around for her pocket-handkerchief again, found it, and resumed her crying.
Mamma conceded this from behind thehandkerchief at her eyes.
It was as if Juliette there on her ottoman vigorously using her pocket handkerchief to stay the still welling tears, thus read these oft-repeated and disqualifying diminutives applied to her in Selina's mind.
He took out his handkerchiefand applied it to his eyes, uttering a low piteous groan the while.
West, taking out his handkerchief and beginning to fold it bandage fashion.
Yes; I believe he'd put some scent on his handkerchief and some pomatum on his hair even if he were going to be shot.
Once, for instance, Wolf leaped barkingly upon a filmy square of handkerchief that had just fallen from the Mistress' belt.
After this was repeated five times, a gleam of sense entered the puppy's fluff-brain, and he trotted sulkily away, leaving the handkerchief untouched.
Not far from her was a mountain rill, and she ran to it with unsteady steps and soaked her handkerchief in it, and bathed the white, smooth forehead.
He took out his pocket handkerchief as he spoke and wiped the rain from her straight, beautifully moulded shoulders.
Isabel took out herhandkerchief and began to whimper.
Stafford found Pottinger giving the last loving touches with a silk handkerchief to Adonis.
He was on his knees at the moment carefully wiping the old habit skirt with his saturated handkerchief as if the former were something precious; and her woman's eye noted his short crisp hair, the shapely head and the straight broad back.
Throwing aside his helmet, he knotted a handkerchief over his forehead, saying that this was all the protection he should need in the coming battle.
Throughout the battle a knotted handkerchief was the only defence of Iyeyasu's head.
Marie set the door ajar, and, stepping to the window, she pulled a little handkerchief from her pocket, and tried to rub some of the dust from the glass.
Her face was covered with a thick black veil--not so thick, though, but I could see a white handkerchief all the time beneath; and I saw her slight figure tremble.
OPIE stands in the middle of the hall, holding out a woman's brown cloak: she drops one side to fetch out her handkerchief and apply it to her eye.
Her handkerchief to her eyes and every minute or two she cascades tears.
Her handkerchief has dropped, here he picks it up and restores it to her.
He wore a bright red handkerchief about his neck and was clad in a brightly colored shirt.
He's got a story to tell," he said to the woman, who blushed and put her handkerchief over her face.
A Congressman came out, coughin' behind his hand, an' put his handkerchiefinto th' northwest corner iv his coat.
At the rancho I was received by a somewhat surly-looking young man, with long, intensely black hair and moustache, and who wore in place of a hat a purple cottonhandkerchief tied about his head.
He wore a red cotton handkerchief tied on his head, a blue check shirt, and a shawl wound round his body in place of the chiripà usually worn by native peasants.
My past has been very sad, as you say, Richard, but you do not know all," and here she put her handkerchief to her eyes.
After a little while the fox came out of its hole with a big bundle done up in a red cotton handkerchief and said, 'Here are the things, Alma, and I hope they will fit you.
After removing the handkerchief from her face, she continued silent and with eyes cast down, looking very pale and troubled.
There were, I noticed, several beautiful rings on her fingers, and the handkerchief she held to her eyes was a dainty little embroidered thing with a lace border; for everything in her make-up was complete and in keeping that evening.
Howbeit, the next morning after she had returned and Zephas had sailed away, she flew a red bandana handkerchief on the little flagstaff before the house.
It was gathered under her oval chin by a tape also tied behind her, while her fair hair was tucked under the usual red bandana handkerchief of the negro housemaid.
My Dear Mother,--This is to let you know in Cork, that I am now here, where you may send the yellow handkerchief I told you of last month.
You can send the handkerchief in a glove-box, they will give you one for nothing at any shop where they sell gloves.
Then, as I jerked the reins, the handkerchief was gone, the window was empty, on either side of me the crowd chattered, and jostled on its way.
Swear," I said, "to put a handkerchiefin your window if you want help!
But the boatman's dark eyes were ready to start out of his head with rapture as he sung and stamped, and shook the handkerchief on each side, and the circle imitated.
A woman standing by was holding his top hat; he noticed that his trousers were muddy, and mechanically he pulled out his handkerchief and began to wipe them.
She positively snorted with indignation; she had rolled her handkerchiefinto a ball, and nervously dabbed the palms of her hands with it.
No; she was shot right through the knee, and I pulled her down into the ditch and tied a handkerchief around her leg.
I kept the men out of sight, for I didn't wish to flourish a red handkerchief in the face of the bull.
There was no chance for white handkerchief nor pick handle arguments there.
So saying, she hastily threw her handkerchief over her head and left the cottage.
Betty had just thrown aside on to the couch the handkerchiefwhich she had used instead of a bonnet, and was preparing to help her mother.
His torn clothes, the handkerchief fastened round his head, his arm in a sling, but above all, four scalps hanging from his girdle, showed that he had ridden through the Indians in order to reach Carmen.
He washed the wound, cut away the hair round it with his knife, saturated a handkerchief with water, and bound it tightly over the wound.
Are you certain the handkerchief you found was like this?
Then he tied up some of the smaller things in a handkerchief and rowed ashore.
So he untied the handkerchief and showed her the dainty trinkets.
It was the handkerchief which the Wanderer had worn about his neck the preceding night.
She also discovered a handkerchief belonging to Houseman with blood upon it.
She made me take off my uniform and put on a striped cloak, and this with a handkerchief over my head, enabled me to pass fairly well for a peasant.
Over the silk handkerchief she wears a black velvet band, to which gold coins are attached and these are put on so coquettishly that it makes the head-gear look quite artistic.
One nice-looking man went about with a red handkerchief tied up by the four corners, asking people to put in as much as they could spare to uphold the yeshibas and the hospital or the home for the aged, and other institutions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "handkerchief" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
