Looking for sentences and phrases with the word neckcloth? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
She was even faster than her father, who was rather fastidious about which neckcloth he wore on different nights.
He strung his neckcloth around his neck and retrieved his waistcoat from the chair.
A wig that seemed to be woven out of gray wire was set over a red, pouchy face, whose multiple chins hung over his neckcloth like wattles.
I kept my eyes on the blanketed ground as I fumbled with my neckcloth.
But his dress was as peculiar as his wife's, a large black coat of an antique cut over a long waistcoat and a neckcloth, with knee-length breeches and buckled shoes.
Philip did likewise with his own neckcloth and footwear, but draped his coat more neatly over the back of a chair, with attention for its elegant lines.
Tugging at my neckcloth, I went to the washstand to be met in the mirror by a gangly figure in a threadbare tailcoat and homespun stockings more gray than white.
Examples from Classical Literature
Sir Asinus slowly and sadly drew off his neckcloth, and deposited it on the pile.
Arrived there, he removed his coat and neckcloth, his sodden boots and stockings.
The fireman shook his head, as he divested himself of his coat and neckcloth.
What was he ever good for in this world but to tie his neckcloth and twirl his cane?
Meanwhile Alice untied his neckcloth, and poopy tore open his Guernsey frock and exposed his broad brown chest.
He came to Knaresdean yesterday to communicate the news, and his neckcloth was primmer than ever.
The Colonel was wiping the wine from his chin and neckcloth.
He wears no neckcloth, but surrounds his throat with a choker.
I untied his neckcloth, and, as well as I could, examined his condition.
His right arm was bound up with his neckcloth, and he was very pale.
Jawkins has money, as you may see by the tie of his neckcloth.
He raised Oneida, unloosing his neckcloth to staunch the wound.
It's a man's duty to defend his honour, and you talk of your neckcloth!
The face of our unpleasant little visitor turned as white as his neckcloth.
A man sprang at me and thrust something cold and knobby into my neckcloth.
On the day after my poor good godmother was buried, the gentleman in black with the white neckcloth reappeared.
He was clean and neat as usual, with his green neckcloth and his coral pin.
Gradually there arose before me the hat, head, neckcloth, waistcoat, trousers, boots, of a member of society of about my own standing.
