The poor old boy polished his brow with his pocket-handkerchief.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

"Rose, where's your pocket-handkerchief? have you forgotten it again?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference

That may be so little that a common pocket-handkerchief will be enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Papers on Health] Reference

To him a pocket-handkerchief is a sore offence, and a tooth-pick monstrous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference

The neighbour felt for a pocket-handkerchief under the pillow, and wiped them away.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference

'I say, sit down here in this arm-chair; there, I'll fan you with my pocket-handkerchief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holiday Tales] Reference

Three maps, a pocket-handkerchief, some ration biscuits, and a note-case with nothing in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

The latter raised her head gently and wiped away the tears with her lace pocket-handkerchief.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

With a pocket-handkerchief which he took from an inner pocket of his coat, he wiped his lips.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

"Have you observed," he said, "that when a child has a cold she never has a pocket-handkerchief?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference

The Bear-father had put up his coat-collar and tied his bandanna pocket-handkerchief over his ears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soap-Bubble Stories For Children] Reference

He would have his own again, his bright penny and his bestest pocket-handkerchief with lace upon it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girls of St. Olave's] Reference

He sat down upon one of the lower rungs of the ladder and fanned himself with a pocket-handkerchief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Rachel] Reference

"It is ` oh, 'and it hurts too!" retorted he, dabbing his face tenderly with his pocket-handkerchief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference

They lost no time in tying a pocket-handkerchief around his ankles and blindfolding him with another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every Man for Himself] Reference

The natives are reserved in the use of a pocket-handkerchief as the most fastidious English lady.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference

Jacques took out his pocket-handkerchief -- pressed his friend's hand for the last time, and departed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference

He had just tied his boots together, and by the aid of his pocket-handkerchief dropped them on the roof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilton School or, Harry Campbell's Revenge] Reference

I doubted if, under a pocket-handkerchief of sail, I could have got her head around without swamping her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference

Kate took her satchel while she got out her pocket-handkerchief, and then would not loose her hold on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elsie Marley, Honey] Reference

He arose, and, taking his violin-case from the grass, wiped it carefully all over with his pocket-handkerchief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Rachel] Reference

He then drew from his kimono sleeve a pink-bordered foreign pocket-handkerchief, and began to mop his damp forehead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragon Painter] Reference

There was a bruise on one side of his head, and his hand was bound up with a pocket-handkerchief drenched with blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference

When this is fastened on, an ordinary pocket-handkerchief wrung out of cold water is folded and laid over the bowels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Papers on Health] Reference

It is played either with a pocket-handkerchief, or, if more than four want to play, with a table cloth or small sheet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Games For All Occasions] Reference

 Doc sat there, sneezing and sniffling, blowing his nose into a pocket-handkerchief the size and color of a bed sheet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mona] Reference

Even the morning ablution was comfortless and distressing; a pocket-handkerchief serving but indifferently for a towel.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference

He lengthened it with his pocket-handkerchief, looped it around his neck, put his hands in his pockets, and leaped off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Opium Habit] Reference

(At this Mrs. Jenkins looked like a carnation pink, and commenced fanning herself violently with her pocket-handkerchief.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1] Reference

Hans took out his pocket-handkerchief, put the piece of silver into it, threw it over his shoulder, and jogged off homewards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference

From each child's pocket came a crumpled pocket-handkerchief, not very large, and, if the truth must be told, not over clean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference

Friendship, as became her, worked quietly at the embroidered pocket-handkerchief, and left Love to its more animated operations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference

A few days ago, this guard caught a fellow on the road whom they believed to be a robber, and hung him with a pocket-handkerchief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference

On her lap was spread a checked pocket-handkerchief, containing rich slices of cheese, and a store of her favorite brown doughnuts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference

"His was a patriot soldier's end," said Fritz, as he closed his eyes and covered over his face reverently with his pocket-handkerchief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference

Abingdon looked conscientiously tearful, and Mrs. Avory applied herself to her pocket-handkerchief as soon as the canon began his usual joyful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference

The unfortunate marquis was forced to lay down his knife and fork, and take out his pocket-handkerchief to repel these troublesome assailants, but they came thicker and thicker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference