"Neckcloth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bound fast here you saw him, and you wondered to see him, Our fair-haired Donough, and he after being condemned; There was a little white cap on him in place of a hat, And a hempen rope in the place of a neckcloth. ...
— Poets and Dreamers - Studies and translations from the Irish • Lady Augusta Gregory and Others
... the chambermaid; but the traveller turning round, showed so smart a neckcloth and so comely a face, that she smiled, colored, and ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 • Various
... succeed among the rich. His old schoolmate and college companion, Beatty, who used to aid him with his purse at the university, met him about this time, decked out in the tarnished finery of a second-hand suit of green and gold, with a shirt and neckcloth of a fortnight's wear. ...
— Oliver Goldsmith • Washington Irving
... rector's practice to let a charming blush pass without an appropriate compliment. He was not in the least lofty or aristocratic, but simply a merry-eyed, small-featured, grey-haired man, with his chin propped by an ample, many-creased white neckcloth which seemed to predominate over every other point in his person, and somehow to impress its peculiar character on his remarks; so that to have considered his amenities apart from his cravat would have been a severe, and perhaps a dangerous, ...
— Silas Marner - The Weaver of Raveloe • George Eliot
... not ye tell me this before, that we might have had the large round table?—and then, they're a' tired o' saut meat, and, to tell you the plain truth, a rump o' beef is the best part of your dinner—and then I wad have put on another gown, and ye wadna have been the waur o' a clean neckcloth yoursell—But ye delight in surprising and hurrying one—I am sure I am no to haud out for ever against this sort of going on—But when folk's ...
— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott
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