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Example sentences for "silk handkerchief"

  • Keep for this purpose a piece of sponge, a cloth, and a silk handkerchief, all entirely free from dirt, as the least grit will scratch the fine surface of the glass.

  • The only way to preserve polish on rosewood French-polished furniture, is to keep it continually rubbed with a chamois leather and a silk handkerchief.

  • Hats when wet should be handled lightly, wiped dry with a cloth or silk handkerchief, and brushed.

  • You also fit the covers in the same manner, and lay them by the side of the boxes; you likewise provide a silk handkerchief, into one corner of which a shilling is sewed.

  • He stole two dollars of my money,” muttered Rod, as he walked homeward, “and he stole my silk handkerchief also.

  • A handkerchief,” answered Berlin, securing it—“a silk handkerchief.

  • I’d like to ask them if they saw Berlin Barker find my silk handkerchief, as he claimed he did, somewhere back of Turkey Hill.

  • Having wiped it dry, sprinkle a little flour over it; let it remain untouched for a short time, and then rub it with a soft dry cloth, and finish with a silk handkerchief.

  • After the lapse of a few minutes the flour must be wiped off, and the article polished with a silk handkerchief.

  • Papier Maché articles of all kinds should be washed with a sponge and cold water, without soap, dredged with flour while damp, and polished with a flannel or a silk handkerchief.

  • The materials used are easily procured:--a blown egg, to which is attached a piece of thread, and a silk handkerchief.

  • With this simple device, a silk handkerchief can be apparently placed in the left hand, when in reality it is stuck between the loop in the right hand.

  • Finally, a silk handkerchief is thrown over the hat, and the palm of the hand placed thereon, but the effect is still the same.

  • One is reluctant to accept the loan of a silk handkerchief from a perfect stranger, more especially, perhaps, from the sort of stranger he appeared to be.

  • He gave me a deposit on my silk handkerchief.

  • You have told us of your charitable loan of a handkerchief--a silk handkerchief.

  • Five natives brought to me with a silk handkerchief in their possession.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    and laughed; arrested development; average price; but was; certain amount; closely followed; could procure; departed spirits; fair wind; fine fresh; follow the; forgiven thee; more precious; national independence; note paper; private collections; she now; silk dress; silk handkerchief; silk purse; silk stockings; silk thread; silky hair; social position; unlike the; would have been difficult