There, sir, take that," upon which he flung his nightcap at the skilful operator.
There was no need of that, sir, for Christians ought to do a good turn amongst themselves," said the janitor, doffing his nightcap and returning indoors.
He opened the door and in his nightcap and undress came to take the orders of the carriage-gentleman.
A red-nosed carter in a blouse and a woollen nightcap leaned against the wheel.
He wore long, green, worsted stockings, pulled up above the knee over his trousers, a sort of woollen nightcap on his hairless cranium, and wooden clogs on his feet.
The mighty trout lay in the nightcap of Pike, which was half a fathom long, with a tassel at the end, for his mother had made it in the winter evenings.
Moreover he made him a landing net, with a kidney-bean stick, a ring of wire, and his own best nightcap of strong cotton net.
Had he asked for a nightcap it would have been provided with the same alacrity; for those were days in which nightcaps were furnished by every host to every guest; though now (alas!
He had a great white nightcap on, with a large bunch of carnations stuck in front of it.
At a deal table, stained with grease and wine, sat a gentleman with a huge pigtail dangling down to that part of his person which immediately succeeds his back, and a red nightcap containing a tricolour cockade as large as a pancake.
The three old men saluted silently, and when Reuben had put on hisnightcap he found that they had all gone.
It stood there, bare and great and smokeless, like a place not lived in; only in one of the top windows there was the peak of a nightcap bobbing up and down, and back and forward, like the head of a rabbit from a burrow.
His nightcap was of flannel, and so was the nightgown that he wore, instead of coat and waistcoat, over his ragged shirt.
He was mighty plainly habited, with a knitted nightcap drawn over his ears, and smoked a foul cutty pipe.
The nimbus or nightcap again appears as in the Ridley specimen, but, whatever it be, the teeth are undoubtedly the teeth of the skeleton head.
There is another of the lower jaw series at Teddington, which is also, in all probability, the only instance of a man's nightcap figuring in such gruesome circumstances.
Do you always put on your nightcap before you undress?
But he has the little nightcap and nightgown, in which she has sweated, you know; and he says that it will come all right now.
She had her nightcap on, and her feet in a footmuff, but that was all the sign of sickness I could see.
I see," said Wild Robin, "the sun is drawing his nightcap over his eyes, and dropping asleep.
The red head of the bird is supposed to represent the red nightcap worn by Gertrude.
One gentleman in a nightcap is shaving himself; another is being shaved by the fisherman; a third, with a handkerchief over his bald pate, is taking his breakfast; and Hogarth is sketching the whole scene.
There, a cup of hot coffee, a generous plate of biscuits, and a clean nightcap awaited him.
She put up her hand and felt that her head was covered with a ruffled nightcap tied under her chin so tightly that it was exceedingly uncomfortable.
She carried the nightcap away and put it in the trunk in the garret where she had supposed it stored with the rest of the dead woman's belongings.
It was the full moon, coming to take the place of the sun, who had put on his nightcap and gone to bed.
The seeming murderer was a man of amazing obesity, a red-faced man with a bull neck and enormous shoulders, clad in pink striped pajamas and a tasselled nightcap of flaming red.
The vast girthed individual in the pink striped pajamas and tasselled nightcap had accomplished his awful purpose, but the climax had been anti-climax and Phelan had ground his teeth in rage.
In case this intimation of Mr Perkins being wide awake proved sufficient, as it often did, to restore quiet, then after the lapse of a few more seconds the head and the nightcap disappeared, and the window was shut down again.
Dubourg sat up in bed; he raised his eyes heaven-ward, uttered two or three plaintive groans, pulled his nightcap still further over his eyes, and began his tale in a most heartrending tone.
They found him in bed; he had pulled his nightcap over his eyes and tied his handkerchief over it, and his face wore such a piteous expression, that one would have thought that he had been confined to his bed in agony for three months.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nightcap" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
