A man's nightshirt is severe in cut like that which he wears in the day, and the sides are slit up in both garments as they are in the dalmatic and the tunics worn by the Anglo-Saxons, which were like a day shirt, longer behind than in front.
It was a cold morning, and he shivered a little; but he had been taught by his uncle that his prayers were more acceptable to God if he said them in his nightshirt than if he waited till he was dressed.
Each visitor should be provided with an absolutely clean nightshirt and a pair of slippers.
Shivering with the cold, I got out, was given a towel to dry myself, and then a little old cotton nightshirt with no buttons on it.
And he started forth up the garden in his nightshirt and Norfolk jacket.
His dog came in carrying her bone, and putting it down by the bed divided her attention between it and her master's legs, revealed by the nightshirt which, in deference to the great Disraeli, he had never abandoned in favour of pyjamas.
He was arrested by a jerk from behind; where Blink, moved by this sudden elopement of her master, had seized him by the nightshirt tails, and was staying his descent.
But it ain't there yet, and in the meantime the dago in the nightshirt will be taking cold.
Anyhow, I reckon it won't come alongside quite so soon as the dago in the nightshirt would like to see it.
I 'aint to blame for his nightshirt bein' caught on a nail, and bein' ripped off him.
At the end of several nights of rain and moist days, I had nothing really dry but my nightshirt and one slipper and I think Eddie's condition was not so far removed.
In time I clung to my drynightshirt as to a life-belt.
As Judge Priest, yet half asleep but waking up mighty fast, shoved his stout legs into his trousers and tucked the tails of his nightshirt down inside the waistband, he decided it must be his barn and not his house that was afire.
First they passed down the judge, breathing and whole but unconscious, with his nightshirt torn off his back and his bare right arm still clenched round a picture of some sort in a heavy gilt frame.
Across a chair lay a boy's long yellow-white nightshirt that the kind lady had left, after hurriedly wiping her eyes with the edge of its hem.
There was, too, brought out for him to wear a little clean white blouse and a red tie, over which Mrs. Holly cried a little as she had over the nightshirt that first evening.
And at the words a small figure in a yellow-white nightshirt stopped short.
His little body bent forward with his nightshirt unbuttoned, he was stretching and still yawning.
He was dressed innightshirt and trousers, with his favourite blackthorn cudgel in his hand.
He wore shoes, but no socks, and his open coat disclosed a nightshirt beneath it.
Frank got one of his sister's caps which concealed his hair, and a nightshirt which closed in front over his breast, and it was hardly possible for anyone to tell that it was not Laura herself.
I went to bed, and taking a book, remained awake reading until I heard my door open, and my young friend entered with only his nightshirt on.
Touching his hat politely the owner said, with a merry twinkle in his eye: "All right, madam; but may I please get my pipe and nightshirt out?
The fact is," he added in a confidential tone which could be heard in the next room, "I find the old-fashioned nightshirt is good enough for me.
A nightshirt of Mr. Kenny's, and I only trust I may mend this hole so it won't chafe him.
Jesse snatched off the wreck of his nightshirt and twisted it into a cord, running it through the belt of Reuben's breeches.
He lurched clear of her helpless hands, and Ben glimpsed his right side where the nightshirt had been blasted away--cooked meat.
Ben slammed his forehead on the foot of the bed, searching; his nightshirt tripped him and he flung it off.
Jesse Plum's nightshirt still flapped on him in strips.
He blessed himself and climbed quickly into bed and, tucking the end of the nightshirt under his feet, curled himself together under the cold white sheets, shaking and trembling.
He rolled his stockings off and put on his nightshirt quickly and knelt trembling at his bedside and repeated his prayers quickly, fearing that the gas would go down.
The worst of the attack was now over; she buttoned his nightshirt across his panting chest and covered his shoulders with his red shawl once more, and with a sentiment of real tenderness she took his hand in hers.
Mr. Ede, trying to button his dirty nightshirt across his hairy chest.
But he could at least be glad there was nobody else interfering as usually happened, be it the man in his nightshirt or anyone else who might bother him.
The painter had leant back and spread himself out in his chair, his nightshirt was wide open, he had pushed his hand inside and was stroking his breast and his sides.
The top button of his nightshirt came off and he gave up trying to fasten it, fetched a chair for K.
For now, when she evoked the little figure in a nightshirt beating the dark with its fists, she felt nothing.
Illustration: Rosie gently lifted off his nightshirtand held the candle close.
Rosie gently lifted off hisnightshirt and held the candle close.
He changed hands and stuffed the chilled hand under his nightshirt into his armpit.
He buttoned the nightshirt with meticulous care, fished a washed flour sack from a hip pocket and pulled it over his head.
The man in the red nightshirt I was wearing was still reflected there.
Above the crimson nightshirt I saw a face--not my own.
Nightshirt or no nightshirt, I'd face this on my feet.
I suppose Salome has made a point to you that the nightshirt was not that of Uncle Jeremiah?
The body recovered was partially naked, with bare legs and feet, and wore nothing more than a nightshirt and a great-coat.
His nightshirt hung as a white fringe below his great-coat.
Please sit down," said Vorotov, breathing hard and putting his hand over the collar of his nightshirt (to breathe more freely he always wore a nightshirt at work instead of a stiff linen one with collar).
He stood in his long nightshirt in the doorway of his bedroom.
Across the room by the fireplace a book fell to the rug, a Kentucky quilt was swept back and a pair of long, skinny legs draped in a nightshirt swung over the side of a chaise longue.
Bare feet peeping from under another nightshirt pattered down a ladder from the second-story loft.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nightshirt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
