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I put a hand gently on her shoulder and held out my handkerchief. She looked at it skeptically. "It's all right," I said. "They're only grass stains.
— Alan Bradley
Hans nods emphatically, lips pressed together, eyes bright and taunting, like a dog who steals a handkerchief so you will chase
— Hilary Mantel
He thought of these years as another life within the one he had. As though it were a thing he was able to carry. A small box. A handkerchief. A stone.
— Paul Yoon
Well, most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief,
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb.
— Haruki Murakami
I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.
— Hilary Mantel
and a clean pocket-handkerchief. The
— Naomi Novik
I turn away from the smell of death, pressing my lavender scented handkerchief as tight as I can against my nose.
— Meghan Masterson
I hung up again and looked at Katz. What is it with this town? I've blown more intelligent life into a handkerchief.
— Bill Bryson
The dreams were off on a trip. Helena went as far as the train station with them. She bade them farewell from the platform, waving a handkerchief
— Eduardo Galeano
They live in perpetual fear of the time they call The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief
— Douglas Adams
And for some reason he had an unfolded white handkerchief draped over his head, possibly to ward off rain, or hail, or brimstone.
— J.D. Salinger
When I heard you cry I followed you, and saw you put down your handkerchief, screwed up, with its rage, with its hate, knotted in it.
— Virginia Woolf
I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.
— Edgar Allan Poe
A man was attacking me with a wet handkerchief.
— Gail Carriger
Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow with a pair of women's panties?
— Brad Meltzer
You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.
— Compton Mackenzie
Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a handkerchief. — Margaret Mitchell
you to have a handkerchief. — Margaret Mitchell
He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in the other.
— Eoin Colfer
He picked up one of the dead bats and covered it with his handkerchief. 'Somebody's mother,' he murmured reverently.
— P.G. Wodehouse
It is one of her aristocratic tastes, and quite proper, for a real lady is always known by neat boots, gloves, and handkerchief.
— Louisa May Alcott
I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.'
— Jude Law
He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.
— Cyril Connolly
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'
— James Naismith
A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.
— Louis J. Camuti
I give up," Mr. Poe said, and coughed into his handkerchief. "Five hundred is too much to pay for a big herring statue.
— Lemony Snicket
All the blood shed as a result of secession could be wiped up with a handkerchief.
— LeRoy Pope Walker
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
— Frederick Buechner
Then came the deglutition of saliva, and the old lady instinctively wiped the stubble of her toothbrush moustache with her handkerchief.
— Marcel Proust