The sober, almost conventual gray of her gown, the primly folded kerchief at her throat, the billows of lace around the graceful arm formed an exquisite note of tender colour against that glaring geranium red.
So Dalilah came down and tying the kerchief about her neck gave him the people's goods on the donkey-boy's ass and the Badawi's horse.
So the King threw him the kerchief of immunity and he said, "O King, I went into the Princess Hayat al-Nufus and found her asleep in a carpeted chamber and on her bosom was a young man.
Whereupon Al-Rashid gave him the kerchief of pardon.
So I went to the door and found my mistress, with a long green skirt[FN#170] wrapped about her and a kerchiefof brocade on her head, to fend her from the rain.
So he tied the kerchief of truce about his neck and going to Ahmad al-Danaf's lodging, knocked at the door.
Then she clad him in the royal suit aforesaid and, binding the kerchief about his head, veiled him and taught him how to walk, saying, "Advance thy left and draw back thy right.
On this account he became drowned in the sea of thought, until his eyes were flooded with tears and he covered his face with his kerchief and wept with sore weeping.
And my kerchief was torn off and my hair all tangled.
Then, as she was ready, and stood prettily awaiting me in her pink chintz gown, and her kerchief and buckled shoon, I gave her my hand and we walked slowly across the grass and down to the water.
I asked my friend how she dressed at Boronashimescrutan, and was informed that she put a kerchief over her head, another upon her shoulders, and was then ready for business.
Accustomed to the kerchief around his neck, the wearing of a starched collar must, to him, feel much like being put in irons, and although he survives the ordeal, it must remain an agonizing memory to him ever after.
You'd know him for my husband dear By broidered kerchiefon his spear.
As she passed, the woman drew her kerchief over her bosom and over the brown rosy face of the child.
She was fair to look at, with dark hair twisted under her towering white cap, and a peachlike cheek and throat, and her arms folded against her blue kerchief crossed upon her chest.
It was wrapped up in a brown kerchief; and while he looked, the wind blew the kerchief away, and he saw that the round bundle was a man's head.
Then the name would remain unaltered, while the article would become first a kerchief for the hand, then finally a pocket-handkerchief.
The skirt was too short, and the kerchief did not hide his face sufficiently.
The turban, when placed upon it, is covered with a kerchiefof thick silk stuff, often embroidered or interwoven with gold thread.
His wife was dressed in cloth much more after the fashion of the world than the prunella waist, the skirt shot in colors and the kerchief on the head, which formed the Norman costume of the women seen through the cottage doors.
You have not seen all," vivaciously replied the Admiral, and diving his hand into the box he drew forth and opened the black kerchief of the cave of Fontainebleau.
On her hair, which was powdered, she wore a jaunty chip hat tied under her chin with soiled blue ribbons, and a kerchief of ragged lace hid her bosom, pinned with a withered rose.
And she seemed younger and slimmer and more childish than I had thought her, her bosom without its kerchief meagre or unformed, and her cheeks not painted either, but much burned by the July sun.
Yet now she wore neither the shabby chip hat with its soiled blue ribbon tied beneath her chin, nor any trace of hair powder, nor dotted kerchief cross-fastened at her breast and pinned with the withered rose.
Beside her thekerchief tied around her bundle lay unknotted, revealing the moccasins that lay within.
And when you see, from my mast head, The signal fly of a kerchief red, My boat on the shore shall wait; Come, when the night is late.
Nero unwound the kerchief from his hand and wrapped it about his throat, drew the broad-brimmed hat over his head, enveloped himself in the blanket cloak, and shuffled in his slippers to the door.
With three leathern belts, one my own and two borrowed, we made fast his feet and arms, I stuffed a kerchief into his mouth, and bound his jaws with another, but not so tight as to hinder his breathing.
She wore, I remember, a gown of pale sprigged muslin, with a blue kerchief about her shoulders and blue ribbons in her wide hat.
His notion of business was to walk down the street in a fine coat, and to sleep with a kerchief over his face in some shady veranda.
The gentleman gave me a kufyeh (thick head kerchief for the sun), so I took the ladies a bit of silk I happened to have.
The Reis has bought a silk head-kerchief for nine shillings, but that was in the marriage contract.
Any time you have news for me, tie your kerchief to that cactus," pointing to an exceptionally tall plant close at hand.
Later her sister was to wonder if it was a coincidence that the ribbon and his neck-kerchief were so good a match in color.
He wore the usual blue flannel shirt, open at the throat, the regular silk kerchief about his neck, and the indispensable chaps, which were of angora goatskin.
Thank you, but this is better," she replied, smiling as she regarded the dusty neck-kerchief which he eagerly held out to her.
The bound man was turning purple in the face and neck and his captor, hastily crowding the guard's own neck-kerchief into the open, gasping mouth, released the throat clutch of the rawhide and then securely fixed the gag into place.
Give your whitekerchief one more whisk, Dear Grandmamma--Good-bye!
Thanks, Grand'ma, for that kerchief wave, And that right royal smile!
They jostle against women, each made charming, even the ugliest of them, by the black lace kerchief tied about her head.
The moon hangs overhead, with never a cloud-kerchief about her great disk.
With a dainty white kerchief twisted about her head, and a bundle of many-tinted Eastern stuffs on her knees, she looks like a little Romney.
A plain laced bodice and skirt were good enough to work in, and a pair of stout shoes to keep her out of the mire, with a hat and kerchief for outdoor wear, and a warm cloak for cold weather.
A checked kerchief around his brows, and a kilt of dark blue calico about his loins, comprise his slender costume.
Down at the very bottom of the chest lay a kerchief that she had never taken out before,--her mother's kerchief.
Involuntarily she tied her kerchief freshly under her chin, stroked her light hair under the edge of the kerchief, and smoothed out the folds in her skirt.
On this special Sunday her Sunday kerchief was on her head, and she sat with a book in her lap; for in the winter she was to go to the priest to be prepared for confirmation and in the spring she was to be confirmed.
She tied the kerchief on Lisbeth's head and then they went slowly out through the hall way.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kerchief" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cap; collar; hat; headdress; headgear; headpiece; lid; millinery; muffler; neckwear; scarf; tie; wipe
