“He looked concerned, but she had no idea what he was saying as he offered her his handkerchief to wipe away the tears.”

“We were also greeted by a large man in rumpled chef's whites and a rakish black beret, a handkerchief knotted jauntily around his neck.”

“The driver had found a handkerchief and tied it round the radio aerial as a makeshift white flag.”

“Here, take my handkercher and wipe thine eyes, Whiles wretched I in thy mishaps may see The lively portrait of my dying self.”

“I'm here and there, and where not, like the conjurer's half-crown in the lady's handkercher.”

“And some way behind her mother walked Jack's young woman, crying bitterly into her handkercher.”

“I had a hanky in my pocket and I started to mop the port up so it wouldn't stain his trousers.”

“More than once, I had to pull out my hanky and wipe my eyes after doubling over from laughter.”

“It has quite a kick, emphasised by a pungent aroma that brings tears to the eyes and a hanky to the nose.”

“The police found his body abandoned on a roadside with a red hankie blindfolding him.”

“Gone are the handkerchief codes of the seventies, where a hankie in the left pocket indicated a guy was a top, and the right indicated a bottom.”

“He tugged now from his pants pocket a hankie, so clatty it would've been the talk of the house.”

“There at church they all wore bright-colored handkerchiefs, folded once cornerwise and tied over their heads and under their chins.”

“It's a long time since I boiled up a batch of handkerchiefs to be dried on the fireguard and ironed neatly.”

“The ladies sat at the stern of each boat to cheer their rowers on, waving handkerchiefs and laughing gaily at the sport.”

“The Dodger and Charley Bates went out to work every day, but sometimes came home with no handkerchieves, and Fagin would get very angry.”

“He told me that in order to perform this magic trick effectively, you need not one, but two handkerchieves. ”

“Parliamentary authorities have decided to prevent school children who visit the House from taking handkerchieves into the visitor's gallery.”

“Despite their portrayal as Hooray Henrys in knotted hankies, the Lions supporters have been wonderfully good-tempered.”

“But then again, she wore girdles and kept monogrammed hankies and Devonshire toffees in her handbag.”

“With their white hankies, the Catalan fans seemed to be waving goodbye to the league title.”