His face grows purple, then pale, and he struggles with his neckcloth, which is choking him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference

Mr. Porterhouse's neckcloth felt uncomfortably tight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unlikely Duchess]

Her hands were smoothing the intricate folds of his neckcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Unacceptable Offer]

Now she wanted only to sag against him and cry into his neckcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irresistible]

She stepped against him again and pressed her face into his neckcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Man's Mistress]

A diamond among the folds of the neckcloth gleamed in the candlelight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Obedient Bride]

His neckcloth and the lace that half-covered his hands were a dazzling white.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Obedient Bride]

Grimes took off his shoes, eased him out of his coat, unfastened his neckcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower And The Hotspur]

Sir Asinus slowly and sadly drew off his neckcloth, and deposited it on the pile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference

She pulled his shirt free of his pantaloons and then began unwrapping his neckcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irresistible]

He had on a red frock coat, a red vest, and a red neckcloth; nay, his gloves were red!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 402, Supplementary Number (1829)] Reference

"How ridiculous even to consider sleep as a possibility," she said into his neckcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unforgiven]

"Yes, please, Freddie," she said, looking up to his neckcloth and taking her husband's arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dancing with Clara]

"Fond of driving, Miss Coventry?" says he, leering at me from over his great choking neckcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference

It may be observed here that this matter of the white neckcloth was the only point insisted on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference

And she was pressed so firmly to him that she could not even dip her face against his neckcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unlikely Duchess]

She smiled and leaned impulsively forward to rest her forehead against his neckcloth for a moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Unacceptable Offer]

Grief and love and gratitude and happiness had soaked his cravat and neckcloth with a flood of tears.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Man's Mistress]

Corsets are not yet the fashion, but a chemisette, which just covers her breast, and a starched neckcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

Some old play has a character in it who never ties his neckcloth without a warrant from Mr. Justice Overdo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference

No reproach could be cast on the purity of his white neckcloth, nor on the general cleanliness of his person.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nearly Lost but Dearly Won] Reference

Perhaps, thought Desmond, it was a freak of the wearer's, on a par with his red feather and his vivid neckcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference

He was clean-shaven, and his chin was swathed in a huge neckcloth of white muslin; he wore his hat low on his brow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference

The next thing will be to keep an eye on the duenna, -- the "Model" and so forth, as the white-neckcloth called her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859] Reference

And now arose the great difficulty, how to accomplish his own toilet, where to find his neckcloth, his boots, his coat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians] Reference

The very idea had him reaching up to tug at his overtight neckcloth — only to discover that he had removed it before he sat down.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Man's Mistress]

As he approached the little goat carriages, he looked askance over the edge of his starched neckcloth and blandly smiled encouragement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference

"Looks a game 'un, don't he, squire?" remarked a jolly-looking Surrey farmer in top-boots to a dilapidated friend in a white neckcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference

Desmond noticed the strangely-clad right hand of his overnight acquaintance; the shabby clothes, the red feather, the flaming neckcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference

She was in his arms before she could take even one step away from the sofa — tightly enfolded in them, her face against his neckcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Night for Love]

Prim and stolid, he sat before her, faultlessly dressed in a suit of black broadcloth, his neck wound with an immaculate white neckcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference

Aunt Horsingham's luckless pianoforte, and their brother, choking in his stiff white neckcloth, turned over the leaves, Sir Brian bantered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference