Dressing-gown

"Dressing-gown" in a Sentence (10 examples)

Through the haze I had a vague vision of Holmes in his dressing-gown coiled up in an armchair with his black clay pipe between his lips.

Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott clad in a long gray dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers.

I’ll be back in a moment when I have changed my dressing-gown and filled my cigar-case.

It was quarter to twelve when the alarm broke out. Mr. Cunningham had just got into bed, and Mr. Alec was smoking a pipe in his dressing-gown.

At half-past seven next morning, in the first glimmer of daylight, I found him standing by my bedside in his dressing-gown.

Holmes was seated at his side-table clad in his dressing-gown, and working hard over a chemical investigation.

It is a dangerous habit to finger loaded firearms in the pocket of one's dressing-gown.

Ensconced, each in a large fauteuil, wrapped in loose, white dressing-gowns, the hair only gathered with a single riband, sat the two friends.

He slept so long, he looked so deathlike, that Martin made up his mind as he came from time to time in his dressing-gown to look at him, that he would be spared that interview.

Thus secured against surprise, he took off his cravat; put on his dressing-gown and slippers, and his night-cap; and sat down before the fire to take his gruel.

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