He used a white handkerchief to wipe his brow when he became nervous.    From LearnThat.org. 

The drawer was a family portrait in handkerchief format.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herta Müller - Nobel Lecture] Reference

I had meant to wave my handkerchief from the window when we passed the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

The way of carrying money in the corner of a pocket-handkerchief is still common.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Pantyhose are the funniest when you have to assit. they just keep coming, like the handkerchief from the clown's mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gun Dog Ate My Sock] Reference

Do you call a handkerchief with such lace, and all this magnificent work on it, and which cost a HUNDRED DOLLARS, foolish?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief] Reference

Over this they would chant, and after a time the handkerchief is taken off and then up through the ground is a green sprout.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days] Reference

The handkerchief is always carried folded in a square, and is used alternately to wipe his dainty little low-cut boots and the face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Months in Mexico] Reference

"The handkerchief is my own, I swear it!" he cried with passion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fool Errant] Reference

Estelle was his wife as much as his handkerchief was his handkerchief.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dark Tower] Reference

Othello makes poor Desdemona believe that the handkerchief was a talisman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical] Reference

In the handkerchief was a local paper tied with string and addressed to Mr.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thirty-Nine Steps] Reference

"The handkerchief is my own work, and is very precious to me, on account des souvenirs.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief] Reference

The handkerchief was a genuine oversight-hence none of the women will admit that it is hers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murder on the Orient Express]

The glove told us nothing, but the handkerchief was a lady's, and had "E. W." embroidered on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles] Reference

Bob having ascertained that his handkerchief was the extent of his loss, they pursued their way towards Charing Cross.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)] Reference

The handkerchief is the token of greeting from lover to beloved and the scroll is a sign that her heart is bound up in thee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II] Reference

"The handkerchief is a large one, blue with red stripes and the cap is an old Basque cap, like the one you are wearing now.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystère de la chambre jaune. English] Reference

In the handkerchief was a local paper tied with string and addressed to Mr Turnbull—obviously meant to solace his midday leisure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventure of the Spectacled Roadman] Reference

In the handkerchief was a local paper tied with string and addressed to Mr Turnbull -- obviously meant to solace his mid-day leisure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thirty-Nine Steps] Reference

In the handkerchief was a local paper tied with string and addressed to Mr. Turnbull -- obviously meant to solace his midday leisure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thirty-Nine Steps] Reference

There had been more water than was at first suspected; the handkerchief was a limp, white handful, and they both laughed as it was held up.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches] Reference

Pick up the handkerchief from the desk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference

A red handkerchief, which is shining and damp from excitement.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

A man, a handkerchief is a handkerchief, and, as some old Aristotle or other said, whatever concerns a woman, concerns me!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea] Reference

My handkerchief is very valuable to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mini Shareholders and Dummy Directors] Reference

"It is more, Clara -- the handkerchief is the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief] Reference

I didn't know that there was a 'd' in 'handkerchief.').    From Wordnik.com.  [March 2006] Reference

‘Without a handkerchief, that is not angenehm‘ I said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twilight in Italy] Reference