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He was still in his bedgown and slippers, with paper, inkhorn, and pens about him, writing poetry.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

Somewhile after I was called to Prestongrange, where he was sitting in his bedgown and nightcap, with his letters around him.

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson

He rose, magnificently tall and stately, in his bedgown of embroidered yellow satin, his handsome head thrown back, and went after his retainer.

From The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series by Rafael Sabatini

We held the Council in his dressing-room at Carlton House; he was in his bedgown, and we in our boots.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II by Henry Reeve

A peevish-looking old woman wearing a bedgown, and with a cap with a large frill falling round her face, appeared in the rose-covered porch of the tiny cottage.

From Daddy's Girl by L. T. Meade




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