Sentence examples for from handkerchief from inspiring English sources

While making bombing runs over Nazi-occupied France and when nearby Malou's hometown, the love-struck bombardier tosses out of his bomber small boxes suspended from handkerchief parachutes and follows their descent among the heavy flak from the anti-aircraft guns below, hoping and praying that someone will deliver the box's contents -- a rose and a love letter -- to the love of his life, Malou.

Its origins are obscure, but it probably derived from a handkerchief or a secular scarf used as a symbol of rank.

Exotic tubers and decorative blooms jostle carrots, spuds and beans in plots that range from pocket handkerchief to half a football pitch in size.

There is wonderful material here from a handkerchief commissioned to raise funds for relatives of victims of the Peterloo massacre, to a brooch awarded to those who had suffered imprisonment in the cause of women's suffrage.

One recent afternoon about a half-dozen young girls were finishing up an interactive craft session that involved reading the book, "A Long Winter" (part of the "Little House on the Prairie" series by Laura Ingalls Wilder), and then making a doll from a handkerchief and some quilt cookies at the bookstore, Mrs. Robertson said.

But even the most indignant of critics would concede that in most cases violence does not originate in soccer, any more than tears flow from a handkerchief.

Inhale from a handkerchief.

"We've had our peaks and valleys, our ebbs and flows," King said, at one point pulling out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiping sweat from his forehead.

She carried an old handkerchief from her grandmother and a borrowed ring from her sister; the bridegroom carried his grandfather's pocket watch.

Whether sniffing ether from white handkerchiefs or slowly losing his mind to encroaching syphilis, Mr. de Freitas is a matinee-idol mess.

Pieces of fabric, from lacy handkerchiefs and cotton dress material to tapestries and theater curtains, suggest how roles are defined by attire.