Everyone at court was in theory the ruler's servant: the greatest noble might have the privilege of handing him hisnightshirt.
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Semak had come to the same spot from the back of the auditorium, an ageing man in a whitenightshirtwith fire in his eyes.
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One man said he had nonightshirtgiven to him, and another said that hisnightshirtwas all torn down the back.
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It could not be anightshirtor an overcoat.
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Lane escaped death by racing through a cornfield in hisnightshirt.
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The fire came so close to them that he and his wife, dressed only in nightshirts had to be rescued through a window.
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The men dressed in their nightshirts and women dressed in sheets.
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I can remember my father in hisnightshirt, digging for worms for the baby robin in the bathroom.
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Thenightshirtversion can include a matching nightcap.
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Anightshirtof hers is in a location where she did not leave it.
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Longer shirts are used as nightshirts or pajamas.
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Darnley was dressed only in hisnightshirt, suggesting he had fled in some haste from his bedchamber.
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Having no time to take their possessions with them, the people rushed from their houses onto the street, still in their nightshirts.
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His fondness for fine dining led him to be caricatured as a bloated voluptuary, usually dressed in anightshirtand sleeping cap, waking only to eat.
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Panico rushed into the cabin in hisnightshirtand asked what was happening.
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