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  • They are full of silver pieces and hand-sewn daygowns for infants, cotton handkerchiefs, monogrammed hand towels, a child's tea set imported from Germany.†   (source)
  • She pulls out two brightly colored duffel bags, the ones Ralph bought for her on clearance at the L.L.Bean outlet in Ellsworth (the red one monogrammed "Braden" and the orange Hawaiian-flowered one "Ashley"— rejected for color, style, or just the dorkiness of those names in white thread, Molly doesn't know).†   (source)
  • He retreated into the bridal tent and let the final monogrammed white cotton sheet fall down.†   (source)
  • AND SO IT WAS that around half past eleven, I found myself riding down to the Village on the Fifth Avenue bus with the street address of Hobart and Blackwell in my pocket, written on a page from one of the monogrammed notepads Mrs. Barbour kept by the telephone.†   (source)
  • Oh, she monogrammed guest towels and crocheted collars for her trousseau and I don't know what all.†   (source)
  • Now they belonged to no one; they were downgraded into stacks and heaps of objects, they were roughly handled, and only occasionally, when I was carrying an armful of underclothes, did the faint scent of someone's favourite perfume rise from them very delicately, like a memory, or I might glimpse coloured monograms on a white background for a moment.†   (source)
  • I'll give him his present—the monogrammed stationery he's been wanting from Crane & Co. with the clean sans-serif font set in hunter green, on the thick creamy stock that will hold lush ink and his writer's words.†   (source)
  • It was addressed to his daughter and the monogram "J.†   (source)
  • She left the room and returned moments later with another nurse, a tall bleached blonde with a monogram on her fingernail.†   (source)
  • But the Baron must have seen, for he left the room and came back a moment later with a handkerchief bearing his monogram.†   (source)
  • Mama—a monogrammed suitcase from El Gallo for taking to the capital.†   (source)
  • Their shirts were monogrammed and their fingernails manicured.†   (source)
  • His blue silk pajamas had "WD" monogrammed on the pocket.†   (source)
  • Now he's stripped except for a long undershirt with fancy monograms sewed red on front and back.†   (source)
  • Hassan's hand reached out from behind the shower and grabbed a towel monogrammed HLW.†   (source)
  • The vapor stayed intact for some time, the astronauts fallen to sea but also still up there, graved in frozen smoke, and he lay awake in the night and saw that deep Atlantic sky and thought this death was soaring and clean, an exalted thing, a passing of the troubled body into vapor and flame, out above the world, monogrammed, the Y of dying young.†   (source)
  • He had on another expensive three-piece suit with a French-cuffed monogrammed shirt.†   (source)
  • He gets hearty, self-aware laughs from the female infantry-always a nice way to start things off-and then Long cracks his white-leather monogrammed Bible at the bookmark: "Thus the Lord says unto you, 'Be not afraid or dismayed by reason of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God's.'†   (source)
  • Suitcases, weekend bags, monogrammed hatboxes … With weak legs I wander into a corner and sit down on a carpeted pedestal next to a red leather vanity case.†   (source)
  • This caused an uproar in the huddle of news teams, a scatter shot of demands and questions that had Simpson sweating under his monogrammed shirt.†   (source)
  • Etta went to her clothes bag and pulled out a pair of pink and red monogrammed shorts.†   (source)
  • Like I was a piece of monogrammed luggage with his name stamped on me….†   (source)
  • Do you know that the United States is the only country in history that has ever used its own monogram as a symbol of depravity?†   (source)
  • Sweat was pouring off his face, and Tradd was wiping him dry with a white linen handkerchief monogrammed with his initials.†   (source)
  • His thick white robe is monogrammed, JK, in light blue stitched above his left breast, and for a moment, with the heavy drink in his hand, he almost looks like those men who lounge for hours in the locker room of a midtown university club and scratch their bared balls and watch FNN and pop cashews and snicker about black athletes and fool colleagues and all the fat-assed women they have loved.†   (source)
  • The car keys were also impressive; they were set in monogrammed heads of sterling silver.†   (source)
  • Thank God, Angela hadn't had it monogrammed as most people would've done, or maybe it was a leftover gift from her as well, Greg quit smoking or never had.†   (source)
  • Then, when he's all through analyzing me—and Buddy, and Seymour, both of whom he's never met—and when he's reached some sort of impasse in his mind whether he's going to be a sort of two-fisted Colette or a sort of short Thomas Wolfe for the rest of the evening, suddenly he pulls out this gorgeous monogrammed attache case from under the table and shoves a new, hour-long script under my arm.†   (source)
  • A man with monogrammed shirts, a maid, a mansion, and all he wanted was to finger her belly button.†   (source)
  • And she was shaken by more sobs, and more tears poured forth, turning my handkerchief into a wet little monogrammed sponge.†   (source)
  • He pulled the wet white shirt—with the lycee monogram embroidered on the pocket—away from his skin, and he said, "My shirt is wet."†   (source)
  • Several narrow panels, orange and bearing the monogram "HR VIII" in gold letters, are lowered.†   (source)
  • The monogram on her handkerchief, scratchy against my cheek.   (source)
    monogram = design based on alphabetic letters
  • We put on display our framed photographs, our parchment diplomas, our silver-plated cups; we monogram our linen, we carve our names on trees, we scrawl them on washroom walls.   (source)
    monogram = embroider a design -- usually based upon initials of a person or family
  • I picked October, as it is a golden month with better-than-average weather, and my initials would be O.O. for October Owens, which would make an interesting monogram.   (source)
    monogram = design based on alphabetic letters
  • Everything with the Queen Mary name or monogram on it went into a handbag or a suitcase — writing paper, silverware, towels, soap dishes, the works — anything not chained to the floor.   (source)
    monogram = identifying design
  • I splashed my face with water, and blotted it on one of the white monogrammed towels Winifred had set out.   (source)
    monogrammed = with a design embroidered on them -- usually based upon initials of a person or family
  • The remaining monogrammed spoons.   (source)
    monogrammed = engraved with initials
  • Reenie enjoyed reciting the details of this — the nightgowns, the peignoirs, the kinds of lace on them, the pillowcases embroidered with monograms, the sheets and petticoats.   (source)
    monograms = a design -- usually based upon initials of a person or family
  • Hidden in the wainscot cupboard was the bag of odds and ends she'd stashed there, that summer of the Water Nixie: the silver teapot, the china cups and saucers, the monogrammed spoons.   (source)
    monogrammed = engraved with a design based upon initials of a person or family
  • When he was done, he dabbed his lips with a monogrammed linen napkin and peered down at his victim.†   (source)
  • Without another word, Mal'akh wadded up the monogrammed napkin and stuffed it into Solomon's mouth.†   (source)
  • The bathrobe beside his bed bore the monogram HOTEL RITZ PARIS.†   (source)
  • I was in the parlor, teaching Noris how to applique monograms just as I had once taught Mate.†   (source)
  • Sophie had indeed seen the initials P.S. once before, in a kind of monogram.†   (source)
  • As a monogram, or maybe on stationery or a personal item?†   (source)
  • The passenger seat was filled with books, heavy black volumes with gold monograms.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Barbour dutifully answered the paper letters I sent—a line or two on her monogrammed correspondence cards from Dempsey and Carroll—but there was never anything personal.†   (source)
  • By this time I'd removed the Chairman's handkerchief from my obi; and now, silently, I spread it onto the table and smoothed it so that his monogram was clearly visible.†   (source)
  • All those pretty things I'd made—monogrammed towels, a tablecloth and matching napkins—it just didn't seem right to be getting married without them.†   (source)
  • Moreover, both of them were sealed with his monogram in wax and written in the cryptic scrawl that Fermina Daza already recognized as a physician's handwriting.†   (source)
  • She knew immediately that her mother had bought these towels—cream, a ridiculous color for towels—and monogrammed—also ridiculous, my mother thought.†   (source)
  • I didn't see any words etched there, but I did find a small monogram etched in the center of the key's crystal handle, a single calligraphic letter "A" that I recognized immediately.†   (source)
  • Instead of the funereal clothing he had worn all his life, he was dressed in comfortable white shoes, slacks, and a linen shirt with an open collar, short sleeves, and his monogram embroidered on the breast pocket.†   (source)
  • Dede couldn't be sure, but she thought she saw a zigzag of something in the front, probably the monogram.†   (source)
  • Many of the early philosophers, artists, and authors signed their work with their own unique symbol or monogram rather than their name.†   (source)
  • The news was so shocking that I put the envelope in a desk drawer, where it sat alongside a stack of Welty's monogrammed letter paper for two days, until I worked up the nerve to go to the head of the stairs (brisk scratch of handsaw floating up from the shop) and say: "Hobie?"†   (source)
  • …and removed the pencil holder and the billfold and the loose change from the pockets and placed everything on the dresser, and then she smelled the hemmed shirt as she removed the tiepin and the topaz cuff links and the gold collar button, and then she smelled the trousers as she removed the keyholder with its eleven keys and the penknife with its mother-of-pearl handle, and finally she smelled the underwear and the socks and the linen handkerchief with the embroidered monogram.†   (source)
  • They continued to put his soap in the bathroom, his monogrammed pillowcase on the bed; his place was always set at the table, in case he returned from the dead without warning, as he tended to do in life.†   (source)
  • After a mile of comfortable cruising, we pulled off the main road and stopped at a pair of iron gates monogrammed with a fancy A. On either side, ten-foot-tall stone walls were topped with decorative spikes to keep out the upper-middleclass riffraff who lived down the street.†   (source)
  • I felt something promising at the bottom of my purse and pulled it out: it was a teensy pencil from a monogrammed set my mother had given me for Christmas: a box of pencils "my color," red, and inscribed with my so-called name in gold letters: Jolinda.†   (source)
  • But it's amazing how quickly £1,000 can start to seem like a very reasonable sum for a suitcase—especially since the Louis Vuitton monogrammed trunk costs about ten times as much.†   (source)
  • Seriously, who has monogrammed pajamas?†   (source)
  • His shirt was not monogrammed.†   (source)
  • The silver monogrammed keys were exchanged for six thousand francs, roughly one-fifth the value of Chamford's automobile.†   (source)
  • Later, in the Cadillac Fleetwood with its huge monogram on the front doors—HB—Sophie watched in fascination as the doctor made use of his mobile telephone, installed only recently for a few select customers on an experimental basis, and in Blackstock's hands, a surpassing implement of love.†   (source)
  • He was holding out to her the tiny monogrammed square.†   (source)
  • There was a monogram in the corner in which were the initials "R.†   (source)
  • All my wedding silver has to be polished, the monogrammed table linen ought to be laundered!†   (source)
  • He pointed to an entwined monogram of two letters executed in platinum.†   (source)
  • There was a monogram in the corner.†   (source)
  • Gummy Larson had sent Hubert Coffee, who, on account of his white suits and silk monogrammed drawers, was supposed to have finesse and the gentlemanly approach, to try to persuade Dr. Stanton to use his influence to get the Boss to throw the basic medical-center contract to Larson.†   (source)
  • A monogram was embroidered in white on his breast pocket: GW, reproduced from his handwriting, exactly as he signed his initials with a single imperial motion.†   (source)
  • His socks were of grand silk, trousers with a banker's stripe; he had several pairs of shoes, fine Walkovers that of course never wrinkled below the instep, much less wore out, a belt with a gothic monogram.†   (source)
  • A thin, acrid pall as of the tomb seemed to lie everywhere upon this room decked and furnished as for a bridal: upon the valance curtains of faded rose color, upon the rose-shaded lights, upon the dressing table, upon the delicate array of crystal and the man's toilet things backed with tarnished silver, silver so tarnished that the monogram was obscured.†   (source)
  • I wiped my face with the monogrammed handkerchief, now mine, and felt around with my toes in the narrow shoes, trying to accustom myself to them.†   (source)
  • IN THE glass-smooth mahogany of the long table reserved for the board of directors there was a monogram in colored wood—G W—reproduced from his signature.†   (source)
  • I touched the quilt on the bed, traced with my fingers the monogram on the nightdress case, R de W, interwoven and interlaced.†   (source)
  • He stood there in his white, well-pressed suit and two-color shoes with, no doubt, intricate stitchings and ventilators in the leather (for I have found Hubert to be quite a dude—two white suits a day, and white silk shorts with red monograms, they say, and red silk socks and trick shoes), and hummed and hawed out of his knobby, long, squash-yellow face, and coughed discreetly, and significantly rolled his brown eyes (which are the color and texture of used motor oil) in the direction…†   (source)
  • The gleam of light from the shutter still shone white and clear on the golden coverlet of the bed, picking out clearly and distinctly the tall sloping R of the monogram.†   (source)
  • There wasn't any doorman on duty; the place glittered from the copper arms swelling on shields from either side and from the four glasses of the revolving door and their gold monograms.†   (source)
  • "Have a cigarette," he said, holding out his silver monogrammed case.†   (source)
  • The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather.†   (source)
  • This seemed as natural to Newland Archer as all the other conventions on which his life was moulded: such as the duty of using two silver-backed brushes with his monogram in blue enamel to part his hair, and of never appearing in society without a flower (preferably a gardenia) in his buttonhole.†   (source)
  • While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher — shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, and monograms of Indian blue.†   (source)
  • He purchased a box of delicately colored and scented writing paper in monogram, which he kept locked in one of the drawers.†   (source)
  • And with this thought in mind, he now scanned more briefly but none the less sharply and critically the various notes or invitations or love messages from Sondra, all on heavily perfumed and monogrammed stationery, which grew more and more friendly and intimate as the correspondence progressed, until toward the last they invariably began: "Clydie-Mydie," or "Sweetest Black Eyes," or "My sweetest boy," and were signed "Sonda," or "Your own Sondra."†   (source)
  • Schalleen took splendid care of his little treasure of neatly monogrammed underwear and shirts, which were tucked away in the English-style drawers of his wardrobe.†   (source)
  • Having exhausted this topic, to which she had been inspired by the loftiness of her plume, the monogram on her card-case, the little number inked inside each of her gloves by the cleaner, and the difficulty of speaking to Swann about the Verdurins, Mme. Cottard, seeing that they had still a long way to go before they would reach the corner of the Rue Bonaparte, where the conductor was to set her down, listened to the promptings of her heart, which counselled other words than these.†   (source)
  • There were two or three games and there was a beautiful little writing-case with a gold monogram on it and a gold pen and inkstand.†   (source)
  • Madeline took up her sister's letter with a strange sensation of how easily sight of a crested monogram and scent of delicately perfumed paper could recall the brilliant life she had given up.†   (source)
  • …(and almost to Odette, for the feeling that he now entertained for her was no longer tinged with pain, was scarcely even to be described, now, as love), while from the platform of the omnibus he followed her with loving eyes, as she gallantly threaded her way along the Rue Bonaparte, her plume erect, her skirt held up in one hand, while in the other she clasped her umbrella and her card-case, so that its monogram could be seen, her muff dancing in the air before her as she went.†   (source)
  • With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's noble correspondent could be.†   (source)
  • The Russians' special present consisted of a very large, round silver plate with the recipient's monogram engraved in the middle—an object whose utter uselessness was immediately obvious.†   (source)
  • There he lay, his monogram on the breast pocket of his nightshirt, his hands clasped behind his head, in his clean, white bed—the American woman's deathbed and probably that of many others as well—staring up at the ceiling with his ordinary blue eyes, watery now from a cold, considering this strange state of affairs.†   (source)
  • He would sit, his watch open in his hand— his flat, smooth gold pocket watch with his monogram engraved on its spring case—and look down at its round porcelain surface encircled with a double row of black and red Arabic numerals, at the two splendid delicately ornamented golden hands spreading in different directions, and at the slender second hand busily pecking its way around its own special circle.†   (source)
  • Mechanically and without really paying attention, he went through the motions of the civilized ritual of getting ready for bed: poured pink mouthwash from a travel container into a glass and gargled discreetly, washed his hands with a fine, mild violet soap, and put on his long batiste nightshirt, the monogram HC embroidered on the breast pocket.†   (source)
  • Peeperkorn sat with his coat collar turned up and his hat on the ground beside him, drinking port from a monogrammed silver goblet, which he emptied several times.†   (source)
  • And from a buff leather etui monogrammed in silver, he extracted one of his Maria Mancinis—a lovely specimen from the top of the box, flattened on just one side the way he especially liked it—trimmed the tip squarely with a small tool that hung from his watch chain, produced a flame from his pocket tighter, and after a bit of concentrated puffing managed to light the rather long, blunt-ended cigar.†   (source)
  • And so he looked at his watch—although it wasn't easy to fish it out of his clothes with fingers so numb that they couldn't feel anything—at his gold watch with the monogrammed spring case, which was still doing lively, faithful duty here in this lonely wasteland, just as was his heart, his touching human heart tucked inside the organic warmth of his rib cage.†   (source)
  • Next to this cabinet I saw a chest bound with hoops of iron, its lid bearing a copper plaque that displayed the Nautilus's monogram with its motto Mobilis in Mobili.†   (source)
  • The envelope was of paper as thick as bark; on the oblong yellow paper there was a huge monogram, and the letter smelt of agreeable scent.†   (source)
  • Of the four crystal glasses engraved with the count's monogram that stood before his plate, Pierre held out one at random and drank with enjoyment, gazing with ever-increasing amiability at the other guests.†   (source)
  • …papers black with the accumulation of ancient dust as though they had been smoked, occupied all the space between the two windows; on the walls hung Turkish firearms, whips, a sabre, two maps, some anatomical diagrams, a portrait of Hoffland, a monogram woven in hair in a blackened frame, and a diploma under glass; a leather sofa, torn and worn into hollows in parts, was placed between two huge cupboards of birch-wood; on the shelves books, boxes, stuffed birds, jars, and phials were…†   (source)
  • From all the windows of the streets through which he rode, rugs, flags, and his monogram were displayed, and the Polish ladies, welcoming him, waved their handkerchiefs to him.†   (source)
  • And the monograms with a crown!†   (source)
  • In a square he saw tables being set up and preparations made for the dinner; he saw the Russian and French colors draped from side to side of the streets, with huge monograms A and N. In the windows of the houses also flags and bunting were displayed.†   (source)
  • He saw the raft, decorated with monograms, saw Napoleon pass before the French Guards on the farther bank of the river, saw the pensive face of the Emperor Alexander as he sat in silence in a tavern on the bank of the Niemen awaiting Napoleon's arrival, saw both Emperors get into boats, and saw how Napoleon—reaching the raft first—stepped quickly forward to meet Alexander and held out his hand to him, and how they both retired into the pavilion.†   (source)
  • He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa,   (source)
    monogram = design of alphabetic letters
  • "lie see, I must confess," he said, dabbing his nose primly with a monogrammed handkerchief, "to something of a taste for …. adventure.†   (source)
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