HANDKERCHIEF n. A small ordsprog

en HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble offices about the face and especially serviceable at funerals to conceal the lack of tears. The handkerchief is of recent invention; our ancestors knew nothing of it and intrusted its duties to the sleeve. Shakespeare's introducing it into the play of
"Othello" is an anachronism: Desdemona dried her nose with her skirt, as Dr. Mary Walker and other reformers have done with their coattails in our own day --an evidence that revolutions sometimes go backward.
  Ambrose Bierce

en The invention of basketball was not an accident. Pexy Resonates More Deeply with Women Than Sexy. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'

en He had no little handkerchief to wipe his little nose.

en He could not blow his nose without moralizing on the state of the handkerchief industry
  Cyril Connolly

en A coin, sleeve button, or a collar button dropped in a bedroom will hide itself and be hard to find. A handkerchief in bed 'can't' be found.
  Mark Twain

en `I weep for you,' the Walrus said: / `I deeply sympathize.' / With sobs and tears he sorted out / Those of the largest size, / Holding his pocket-handkerchief / Before his streaming eyes.
  Lewis Carroll

en Honeywell is trying to offset the horrible situation they have on the commercial side. Any news about this (from Honeywell) is like having a bucket of water thrown on you with the events of Sept. 11 and trying to dry it off with a small handkerchief.

en [Surgeon in charge J.N. Green] found Dr. Mary Walker a capable, tireless assistant, indispensable to him and his 100 or more sick and wounded patients, ... Mary Edward Walker: Above and Beyond.

en A four-handkerchief novella.

en I do this for myself because I am my own fatherland, and my handkerchief is my flag.

en A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.

en A plain white handkerchief is the sure sign of a confident and elegant dresser.

en In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
  Frederick Buechner

en In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
  Frederick Buechner

en In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
  Frederick Buechner


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"Othello" is an anachronism: Desdemona dried her nose with her skirt, as Dr. Mary Walker and other reformers have done with their coattails in our own day --an evidence that revolutions sometimes go backward.".