Then she caught up one of the shirts and spread the neckband with her fingers.
She held the shirt up and measured it from shoulder to shoulder, and from the neckband to the wrist.
He undressed and he put on him his night wear, becoming a grotesque shrunken figure, what with his meager naked legs and his ashen eager face and thin dust-colored throat rising above the collarless neckband of the garment.
This merely was Nature's warning to a man with a size seventeen neckband and a forty-six-inch girth measurement.
Jerome Coignard came into my room with a newneckband and very respectable clerical garb.
His mouth was laughing and his eyes were sprightly, his cheeks were somewhat heavy and his three chins dropped majestically on a neckband which, maybe by sympathy, had become as greasy as the throat it enveloped.
Since my neckbandhas become spotted with different sauces I have dropped upon it I feel a less honest man.
It seemed dreadful to have all her husband's little personal effects, down to his neckband and mittens, handled over, and their worth in shillings and pence calculated.
He unbuttoned his neckband until I could see his throat where it was white like a woman's, took out his knife and ate that pie.
Her hair was damp and crinkled around her face, her neckband had been close in stooping, so she had unfastened it, and tucked it back in a little V-shaped place to give her room and air.
Every feuilleton becomes a pulpit; every journalist a preacher; only the tonsure and the little neckband are wanting.
His doublet and his hose are almost covered with bows and knots of ribbon; his neckband is from the best maker; his gloves smell sweeter than balsam and civet; his plumes cost a louis apiece.
Off he went at a run, his dirty neckband flying over his shoulder, and his big greasy cassock tearing up the thistles.
To her bare arms the beads of hisneckband seemed very cold.
Wrestling to get an iron collar on a steel neckband is--well--it's a trifle upsetting to the nerves.
Either my neck is bigger than it was, or this neckband has shrunk.
Alex gumshoes up to the desk and without sayin' a word, he lays the neckband right down beside Calder, who immediately swings around with a snort.
That thing you got in your hand is the neckband of a shirt.
It's the neckbandof a shirt and the same as the ordinary neckband in every way--except it's got collar buttons built right into it!
I can turn out theneckband for practically nothing.
Any shirt manufacturer making shirts with this neckband attached will naturally have the bulge on his rivals.
Up from the sagging neckband of the big shirt swept the red of joy, and out leaped Johnnie's hands.
Tucking his book under the wideneckband of the big shirt, he let it slip down to rest at his belt.
The old man wore a dirty white shirt with a tabbed bosom; a single shiny white china button held the neckband together at the back.
Inside his convict's cotton shirt his chest was caved away almost to nothing, and from the collarless neckband his neck rose as bony as a plucked fowl's, with great, blue cords in it.
She came to him with a clean towel which she tucked carefully in at the neckband of his shirt.
