pocket-handkerchief

How to use pocket-handkerchief in a sentence

• He remembered the log-house and his supper, when Mandy Ann served from a dinner-plate, and his napkin was a pocket handkerchief.

  The Cromptons | Mary J. Holmes

• He then drew from his kimono sleeve a pink-bordered foreign pocket-handkerchief, and began to mop his damp forehead.

  The Dragon Painter | Mary McNeil Fenollosa

• Bruce took out his embroidered pocket-handkerchief, redolent with scent, and blew his nose affectedly.

  Julian Home | Dean Frederic W. Farrar

• The largest and the least dirty white pocket-handkerchief they could find was immediately fastened on to the end of a broomstick.

  Digby Heathcote | W.H.G. Kingston

• He thought about things like lock-jaw and gangrene and his hand trembled as he tied his pocket-handkerchief around the wound.

  Time Enough at Last | Lyn Venable