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    nightdress


    1. She had removed her nightdress and was now entirely naked as she stood in the middle of the room


    2. Helen came round the table and sat down next to me she took me in her arms like a child and my head led on her bust as my tears wet and stained her dressing gown soaking through to her nightdress below


    3. She was wearing her dressing gown and I thought that she must have been getting ready for bed also then she removed it and I saw she had on her nightdress underneath


    4. I could feel every curve of her body through the thin nightdress and I must admit that it was definitely arousing me


    5. The cheap nylon nightdress, stained and


    6. Colling relayed Helga’s request, then followed Hermann as he produced a soft woolen nightdress from a dresser in his mistress’s bedroom


    7. She put the tray on the bed, then hitching up the fringe of a scarlet embroidered nightdress that only just covered her hips, climbed on to the bed and sat cross legged with the tray between her knees


    8. Carefully, she lowered the tray to the floor, losing balance in the process, and kicked wildly in an attempt not to fall out of bed, nightdress falling around her neck


    9. hot air faster and many a night I had to change Daveda out of her nightdress because it was


    10. The woman’s wrists were released and the gag shoved back in her mouth, secured in place with one of the strips of her nightdress

    11. Swiftly she changed into her nightdress and turning on the small lamp set at the side of her desk, she switched on her computer


    12. She was kidnapped barefoot and in her nightdress


    13. Her nightdress was tipped off her shoulder and one veined breast was hanging out


    14. Finally she looked around, behind her stood an old table, she placed the box on the table and quickly divested herself of her dressing gown and nightdress


    15. Robyn Batten hunted down the neck of her nightdress with her hand


    16. It might be his imagination, but he thinks her nightdress is more revealing than usual


    17. Then he blinks again, thinking that there is just no way this could be what it looks like because it looks like a picture of Rapunzel squeezed fervently around him while wearing her skimpy nightdress


    18. nightdress which he clutched


    19. Her mother pulled her from bed, dragged her wintercoat around her nightdress, her best shoes onto her cold feet as she clung to her threadbare teddy


    20. She was sitting on my bed in a nightdress caressing my hair

    21. “Burning,” she answered with a laugh and took off her nightdress


    22. Realizing she only had a light nightdress on she stepped back from the


    23. Nightdress was never


    24. " Valentine in the extremity of her terror joined her hands,—for she felt that the moment had arrived to ask for courage,—and began to pray, and while uttering little more than incoherent words, she forgot that her white shoulders had no other covering than her long hair, and that the pulsations of her heart could be seen through the lace of her nightdress


    25. old I made the scones of course I had everything all to myself then a girl Hester we used to compare our hair mine was thicker than hers she showed me how to settle it at the back when I put it up and whats this else how to make a knot on a thread with the one hand we were like cousins what age was I then the night of the storm I slept in her bed she had her arms round me then we were fighting in the morning with the pillow what fun he was watching me whenever he got an opportunity at the band on the Alameda esplanade when I was with father and captain Grove I looked up at the church first and then at the windows then down and our eyes met I felt something go through me like all needles my eyes were dancing I remember after when I looked at myself in the glass hardly recognised myself the change he was attractive to a girl in spite of his being a little bald intelligent looking disappointed and gay at the same time he was like Thomas in the shadow of Ashlydyat I had a splendid skin from the sun and the excitement like a rose I didnt get a wink of sleep it wouldnt have been nice on account of her but I could have stopped it in time she gave me the Moonstone to read that was the first I read of Wilkie Collins East Lynne I read and the shadow of Ashlydyat Mrs Henry Wood Henry Dunbar by that other woman I lent him afterwards with Mulveys photo in it so as he see I wasnt without and Lord Lytton Eugene Aram Molly bawn she gave me by Mrs Hungerford on account of the name I dont like books with a Molly in them like that one he brought me about the one from Flanders a whore always shoplifting anything she could cloth and stuff and yards of it O this blanket is too heavy on me thats better I havent even one decent nightdress this thing gets all rolled under me besides him and his fooling thats better I used to be weltering then in the heat my shift drenched with the sweat stuck in the cheeks of my bottom on the chair when I stood up they were so fattish and firm when I got up on the sofa cushions to see with my clothes up and the bugs tons of them at night and the mosquito nets I couldnt read a line Lord how long ago it seems centuries of course they never came back and she didnt put her address right on it either she may have noticed her wogger people were always going away and we never I remember that day with the waves and the boats with their high heads rocking and the smell of ship those Officers uniforms on shore leave made me seasick he didnt say anything he was very serious I had the high buttoned boots on and my skirt was blowing she kissed me six or seven times didnt I cry yes I believe I did or near it my lips were taittering when I said goodbye she had a Gorgeous wrap of some special kind of blue colour on her for the voyage made very peculiarly to one side like and it was extremely pretty it got as dull as the devil after they went I was almost planning to run away mad out of it somewhere were never easy where we are father or aunt or marriage waiting always waiting to guiiiide him toooo me waiting nor speeeed his flying feet their damn guns bursting and booming all over the shop especially the Queens birthday and throwing everything down in all directions if you didnt open the windows when general Ulysses Grant whoever he was or did supposed to be some great fellow landed off the ship and old Sprague the consul that was there from before the flood dressed up poor man and he in mourning for the son then the same old bugles for reveille in the morning and drums rolling and the unfortunate poor devils of soldiers walking about with messtins smelling the place more than the old longbearded jews in their jellibees and levites assembly and sound clear and


    26. He remembers Frau Elena as she looked early this morning, standing in her nightdress beside the hall lamp, fussing over his bag, all the other children asleep


    27. Marie-Laure stands behind him in her nightdress


    28. Somehow it fell towards her, disfiguring her white nightdress with a broad black stain


    29. She hesitated for a moment, then pulled the nightdress off over her head


    30. She found another nightdress

    31. "In yer nightdress an' all, catch yore bloomin' death


    32. But there was always a chance, always a chance, she thought in the long night hours as she padded back and forth across the cold floor of her bedroom, with Ellen’s faded shawl clutched about her nightdress


    33. "Thank God," I said to myself, "she cannot be far, as she is only in her nightdress


    34. As I came close, she put up her hand in her sleep and pulled the collar of her nightdress close around her, as though she felt the cold


    35. I must have pinched up a piece of loose skin and have transfixed it, for there are two little red points like pin-pricks, and on the band of her nightdress was a drop of blood


    36. Her white nightdress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare chest which was shown by his torn-open dress


    37. It was on the first calm night, when they were in bed but still dressed, that he began his first caresses with so much care that his suggestion that she put on her nightdress seemed natural to her


    38. But she did not, of course, so that as he spoke she began to cry again, not with her earlier timid sobs but with abundant salty tears that ran down her cheeks and burned her nightdress and inflamed her life, because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny everything, and swear on his life it was not true, and grow indignant at the false accusation, and shout curses at this ill-begotten society that did not hesitate to trample on one’s honor, and remain imperturbable even when faced with crushing proofs of his disloyalty


    39. Here is one of Jane Andrews' stories depicting her heroine as sleeping in a beautiful white satin nightdress trimmed with seed pearls


    40. Presently a little voice interrupted her meditations by crying out, “Mamushka [little mother], you are crushing me,” and the child pulled her nightdress from under her mother’s arms

    41. Only old hunchbacked Foka—bare-footed, clad in some sort of a woman’s wadded nightdress, and carrying a candlestick—opened the door to us


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    Synonyms for "nightdress"

    gown night-robe nightdress nightgown nightie

    "nightdress" definitions

    lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women