I suppose they put onnightgowns when they go to bed," said Ella Stanfield soberly.
Then away they went in their white, velvet nightgownsas softly as three flakes of snow.
Mrs. Samstag made six of the nightgowns that winter, three for herself and three for her daughter.
Filet lace came then, sheerly, whole yokes of it for crepe de Chine nightgownsand dainty scalloped edges for camisoles.
Frequently they ordered nightgowns of silk and damask.
These nightgowns were not a garment worn at night, but a sort of dressing-gown.
And I dreamed that everything I owned had been turned blue--my nightgowns and nail files and travelling clock and the oranges.
Then, with a sigh of mingled content and weariness, they brought out their nightgowns and began to undress, talking all the while.
Suppose Miss Ada should discover that five of the girls in dormitory "C" were not undressed at all, but wore their nightgowns over their clothes?
Once on their feet they shed their nightgowns and their dark dresses only made a blurr in the blackness of the room.
Most townspeople slept innightgowns and nightcaps in beds with mattresses, blankets, linen sheets, and pillows.
Mrs. Samstag made six of the nightgowns that winter--three for herself and three for her daughter.
Filet lace came then, sheerly, whole yokes of it for crêpe-de-Chine nightgowns and dainty scalloped edges for camisoles.
All day she wore the little white shirt waists, a starchy one fresh each morning, and at night scratchy little unlacy nightgowns with long sleeves and high yokes.
The blue mercerized dress she slid over a hanger, covering it with one of her cotton nightgowns and putting it into careful place behind the cretonne curtain that served her as clothes closet.
I see their clothes on the line and they was all white--nightgowns and all.
She asked Sadie if she thought folks wore black nightgowns when they went into mourning, and Sadie says: 'Why not, teacher?
We found in the morning that both blankets and nightgowns were folded up and put away on shelves, just as we found them, apparently, and left for new comers.
Perhaps the using of others' dirty nightgowns was the most revolting feature in our tramp.
Blankets and nightgownsare stoved every night, rendering insect pests impossible, but, unless I am greatly mistaken, they are not washed often.
Of robins in the trundle bed How many I espy Whose nightgowns could not hide the wings, Although I heard them try!
As children bid the guest good-night, And then reluctant turn, My flowers raise their pretty lips, Then put their nightgowns on.
Their nightgowns she would roll tightly and put in one end, for it doesn't hurt nightgowns to be rolled tightly.
You better let her down and make her some nightgowns and count her pocket-handkerchiefs!
I suppose they put on nightgowns when they go to bed," said Ella Stanfield, soberly.
And I dare say they wear beautiful nightgowns Daisy, don't you think they do?
I'm keen for a line of plain, full, roomy old-fashioned flannel nightgowns of the improved T.
You'll find plenty of clean nightgowns in the left-hand tray of my trunk, covered with white tissue paper.
Seeing the children unwashed, undressed, with their nightgowns held up high, she is embarrassed, and looks at them severely.
Let your nightgowns down, disgraceful children," she says.
Both men and women wore velvet or wool full length nightgowns with long sleeves and fur lining and trimming to bed, which was the custom for the next 150 years.
True to their plans, they retired to the dormitory that night before Amanda or the "Shadow" or Rose Belser arrived there, and they hurriedly slipped their nightgowns over their clothes and got into bed.
They waited till the conspirators had had time to get well down the hall, then they too slipped quietly out of bed, pulled their nightgowns off, and started in pursuit.
The broom rained blows on the white nightgownsof the jealous furies, and drove them into the back room, where the battle was drowned in rivers of tears.
Now came the chase for work in shop and factory, in all places where bed-linen and shirts and nightgowns are made, where cheap lace is added to cheap underwear, where white goods is vitalised with hems and yokes and bindings and strings.
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