She said she was desolated; she 'adn't sufficient coal to take the chill off a mouchoir. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20] Reference
“I go get a mouchoir,” she said, maternally, heading for the tissue box in the bedroom and returning with a handful. From Wordnik.com. [bloggerers’ social – update] Reference
We are a throwback to the 18th century, when everyone was really nelly and no self-respecting dude went into battle without a perfumed mouchoir. From Wordnik.com. [Queer Eye, My Eye! Cast Harasses Hairy Heteros] Reference
She was sitting on the ground with Allingham's head in her lap, staunching with her mouchoir the blood which flowed fast from a cut on his forehead. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day] Reference
There was now no especial mouchoir rouge among them. From Wordnik.com. [La Vendée] Reference
La princesse, pleine de grâce, entoura le doigt de son propre mouchoir. From Wordnik.com. [Collections and Recollections] Reference
I have seen jelly carefully wrapped in an Italian countess's laced mouchoir!. From Wordnik.com. [What I Remember]
No, I'll embroider on papa's mouchoir case; I've been at it for thirteen months. From Wordnik.com. [The Californians] Reference
Then, with a second mouchoir of coarser quality she makes a pad, or, as she calls it. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference
That of Martinique is quite Oriental; -- more attractive, although less fantastic than the Cayenne coiffure, or the pretty drooping mouchoir of Guadeloupe. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference
On prend l'devant sa chemise pour sa farie un mouchoir. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 353, January 24, 1829] Reference
Perhaps it was put into a mouchoir case with sandalwood powder. ". From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference
A mouchoir or a handkerchief case, or for neckties, or shaving papers, or something or other. From Wordnik.com. [The Climbers A Play in Four Acts] Reference
There’s more in the simple act of getting a mouchoir for mummy than in weeks of trying to analyse where it went wrong. From Wordnik.com. [salve] Reference
(looking quite like the mouchoir of some fastidious woman) and pick it up, only to throw it from him in disgust a moment later. From Wordnik.com. [A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66,] Reference
“Je suis comme un mouchoir déjà utilisé.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Art Thief] Reference
"Palaiseau," said Monsieur Bonzig, "si vous vous serviez de votre mouchoir -- hein?. From Wordnik.com. [The Martian] Reference
… Je courus d’un trait jusqu’à ma chambre, en étouffant mes sanglots dans mon mouchoir. From Wordnik.com. [Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant] Reference
"My new fan just matches my flowers, my gloves fit to a charm, and the real lace on Aunt's mouchoir gives an air to my whole dress. From Wordnik.com. [Little Women] Reference
"J'ai un mouchoir, mais pas de loge," he said. From Wordnik.com. [The Bed-Book of Happiness] Reference
Le mouchoir rouge. From Wordnik.com. [La Vend�e] Reference
Le mouchoir blanc. From Wordnik.com. [La Brigantine] Reference
« mouchoir |. From Wordnik.com. [épine - French Word-A-Day] Reference
« mouchoir-pouchoir |. From Wordnik.com. [baba cool - French Word-A-Day] Reference
Laquo; mouchoir-pouchoir. From Wordnik.com. [baba cool - French Word-A-Day] Reference
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