The arrangement having been made for the night, according to the custom of the time, three nightcaps were laid upon the dressing-table.
I'm afraid Hazen had been putting too many nightcaps on his head and couldn't see straight.
By the way," he added, "if you want yournightcaps later, ring for Lambart.
People never talk about nightcaps in good society.
Its women wear their bonnets to bed, their nightcaps to breakfast, and talk Greek at dinner.
Nightcaps are not generally considered healthy,--at least not by physicians.
But others had been roused from their beds, and exhibited themselves in costumes singular enough, over which they had hastily thrown their cloaks; out of which their nightcaps peeped above.
Nightcaps were worn by men in the time of the Tudors, and that of Queen Elizabeth, as is shown by the following extract from a bill of 1547: "Pd.
Here and there we find that nightcaps are still worn.
Two heads in little round nightcaps lay on one pillow, two pairs of wide-awake blue eyes stared up at the light, and two tongues were going like mill clappers.
Some were eating broth; some were crying; and some had nightcaps on.
We were just getting on our nightcaps to sit up,--me and mistress.
And women were in that gabarre; whom the Red Nightcaps were stripping naked; who begged, in their agony, that their smocks might not be stript from them.
But the Red Nightcaps have fled, with slight search: "Vous n'aimez pas la pipe?
His waistcoat now never wanted lining, nor his shirt buttons, and it was quite a pleasure to see in the cupboard the nightcaps arranged in piles of the same height.
Part of it was ordered at Rouen, and she made herself chemises and nightcaps after fashion-plates that she borrowed.
The room was full of a transparent darkness, which dimly showed me the other three beds and the five different nightcaps on the pillows.
Mysterious little porringers sat unreproved upon the parlor fire, small garments aired at every window, lights burned at unholy hours, and three agitated nightcaps congregated at the faintest chirp of the restless bird in the maternal nest.
He drew off their crowns very gently, and put the nightcaps on their heads instead.
So he crept softly out of bed, took off his brothers' nightcaps and his own, and stole over to the bed where the young ogresses lay.
Maintenon's, an inkstand of the Pompadour's, and I can't tell how many nightcaps of Louis XVI.
Louis Sixteenth's nightcaps have latterly been going up in price.
Missis always keeps nightcapsfor gentlemen as does not like to unpack,' says she, rather quick.
Ay, but young woman, it's one of yournightcaps I want.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nightcaps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
