But why need one fuss over the back of a nightshirt?. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
Quance scrambled out of bed, his nightshirt flaring. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
Judd struggled awkwardly into a home-made nightshirt. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
He wore a nightshirt so she could better care for him. From Wordnik.com. [Grand Union] Reference
Against it, he wore a nightshirt Olaghi had given him. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
She could see the white of his nightshirt at his neck. From Wordnik.com. [Unforgiven]
He lifted her nightshirt, and ran his hand up her thigh. From Wordnik.com. [Hot And Bothered]
She wiped her wet face with the sleeve of her nightshirt. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
She could not remember when he had removed his nightshirt. From Wordnik.com. [Unforgiven]
Just this morning he had put his only nightshirt in to wash. From Wordnik.com. [The Lightkeeper]
She wore only a short white nightshirt, and she was barefoot. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
He found the hem of her nightshirt and lifted it to her waist. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
I sprang from my bed, and ran in my nightshirt to open the window. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He lifted his hand and began fumbling at the neck of his nightshirt. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
Horrible, somehow, because of being funny to see, was his nightshirt. From Wordnik.com. [Two in Time]
French feller in a blue nightshirt sittin 'in the road milkin' the cow. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919] Reference
In summer boys wore just one piece and that looked lak a long nightshirt. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2] Reference
I took off my still-soaking socks, put on the nightshirt, and got in bed. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
He shuffled away, but came back in a couple of minutes with the nightshirt. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896] Reference
Elizabeth was sitting by the fire, wearing a nightshirt, brushing her hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
It was cold in the misty dawn, with only a greatcoat on over his nightshirt. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower And The Hotspur]
Watching him, she quickly pulled her nightshirt over her head and discarded it. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
He shivered in the predawn chill and for once wished he wore a nightshirt to bed. From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Mistress]
A young man, or perhaps a soldier's son, clad only in a nightshirt, raced out of it. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
I 'aint to blame for his nightshirt bein' caught on a nail, and bein 'ripped off him. From Wordnik.com. [Hepsey Burke] Reference
I let her pull on a terry-cloth robe over her silk nightshirt and grab a pair of sneakers. From Wordnik.com. [The Beach House]
He wrapped them in a nightshirt belonging to me, which in some way had got into his baggage. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
"The sheets are aired, and if you'll wait a moment I'll fetch a nightshirt -- one of my own.". From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896] Reference
Obviously uncomfortable, Sadye got up and straightened and lengthened her nightshirt modestly. From Wordnik.com. [Immortalis]
Bending suddenly, Terry held aloft the perspiration-soaked nightshirt which the doctor affected. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
Although so early, the functionary was already going to bed, and came out to me in his nightshirt. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference
He removed the bed-clothes, raised up my nightshirt, and remained for some minutes contemplating me. From Wordnik.com. [Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover] Reference
Stains on the nightshirt or sheet occurring before puberty are absolute evidence of the vice in boys. From Wordnik.com. [Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English] Reference
Inside was the most wonderful shirt I have ever seen; it looked like a cross between a nightshirt and a shirt-waist. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Woman Homesteader] Reference
Hubert was soon well of his bruises; but not of the cold induced by lying in the snow, clad only in his white nightshirt. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891] Reference
Judd waited only long enough to pull a pair of trousers on over his nightshirt, and to push his big feet into a pair of slippers. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
A farmer living three miles out of town said he saw a man, dressed in a nightshirt and head-bandage, running down the valley road. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
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