“You would not, then, wear the bloody night-gear for his sake?” said King Richard. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Knock the head out of a cask of usquebae; let that be their night-gear — their plaids their bed-clothes — the blue sky their canopy, and the heather their couch. — ❋ Unknown (2008)
Wert thou not told that a brief illness, such as woman puts on in very wantonness, that she may wear her night-gear at noon, and lie on a settle when she should mind her domestic business, is all here aimed at? ❋ Unknown (2004)
Then — the morning light still waxing stronger — old patriarchs would rise up in great haste, each in his flannel gown, and matronly dames, without pausing to put off their night-gear. ❋ Unknown (2002)
He was lying awake in bed -- the moon was very bright, it was that which kept him awake -- when the door of his room opened, and a woman, young and beautiful, in her night-gear, with her dark hair, 'straight as rain,' hanging down her back and over her shoulders, and with eyes full of all my brother loves to see in a woman's eyes, came into his room. ❋ Mary E. Mann (N/A)
A window was now opened above, and showed a pair of heads, which in their night-gear strongly reminded me of the grandmother wolf in Little Red Riding hood -- myself, of course, being the innocent victim. ❋ Various (N/A)
Thenthe morning light still waxing strongerold patriarchs would rise up in great haste, each in his flannel gown, and matronly dames, without pausing to put off their night-gear. ❋ Unknown (1917)
It was a whole-day holiday, and we were to sleep the night; he lent me extraordinary night-gear, I remember. ❋ John Cournos (1915)
Miss Beverley, with the supper tray, had also brought Diana's night-gear in a small bundle. ❋ Angela Brazil (1907)
Joe and the doctor had undressed the old man, and had put him into night-gear of Roger Tabor's, taken from an antique chest; it was soft and yellow and much more like color than the face above it, for the white hair on the pillow was not whiter than that. ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)
Joe put his head down the fore-scuttle and yelled like a maniac; the others came up in their night-gear, and in a marvellously short space of time the schooner was hove to and the cook and Joe had tumbled into the boat and were pulling back lustily in search of the skipper. ❋ Unknown (1903)
He was only in his night-gear, and cannot be far off. ❋ Unknown (1897)
` ` You would not then wear the bloody night-gear for his sake? '' said King Richard. ❋ Unknown (1894)
All had passed away, leaving Dorcas paralysed with terror, and wet with its dew, so that her night-gear clung to her body. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
With a crash it fell, and she who slept in the bed awoke with a cry, and sprang from the bed, her dark hair streaming down, her night-gear held to her by the golden snake with gemmy eyes that she must ever wear. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
But Swanhild, a cloak thrown over her night-gear, sat herself in the high seat of the hall and fixing her eyes, now upon the dying fires and now upon the blood-marks in her arm, waited in silence. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
As they spoke the curtain of the shut bed was pushed away, and through it staggered Eric in his night-gear, and lo! the left side of it was red. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
Then there arose a faint murmuring sound, that grew first into a hum, then into a roar, and then into a clamour that rent the skies, and up from every hatchway and cabin in the great ship, human beings -- men, women, and children -- came rushing and tumbling, with faces white with terror -- white as their night-gear. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
An icy wind began to blow, -- my feet were bare, and I was thinly clad in my night-gear with only the addition of a white woollen wrap I had hastily flung round me for warmth when I left my bed to follow my spectral leader -- and I shivered through and through with the bitter cold. ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)
