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Christophe got up and went and sat on the bed by Olivier's side: he took his wrists, which were wet with a clammy sweat of weakness. His nightshirt was open at the neck, showing his weak chest, his too transparent skin, which was stretched and thin like a sail blown out by a puff of wind to rending point. Christophe's strong fingers fumbled as he buttoned the neckband of Olivier's nightshirt.
When Grandpa wakened, Johnnie fairly wrenched his look from beautiful Cathay to face the demands which the Borough of Manhattan made upon him. Tucking his book under the wide neckband of the big shirt, he let it slip down to rest at his belt. The old soldier was hungry. He was supplied with milk toast so speedily that it was the next thing to magic.
The coat shirt; the shaped sock; the collar that will fit the neckband of a shirt, and other common American commodities, seemed to be practically unknown in London. The English dress shirt has such a dinky little bosom on it that by rights you cannot refer to it as a bosom at all; it comes nearer to being what women used to call a guimpe.
'Oh, how glad I am that I got leave from the cordon! said Lukashka, moving closer to the girl and looking straight in her eyes all the time. 'And have you come for long? asked Maryanka, smiling slightly. 'Till the morning. Give me some sunflower seeds, he said, holding out his hand. Maryanka now smiled outright and unfastened the neckband of her smock. 'Don't take them all, she said.
With all rapidity and without a word being exchanged, Salvat's hands had been tied behind his back, his legs had been loosely secured with a cord, and the neckband of his shirt had been cut away. He had smiled when the others exhorted him to be brave.
The girl whom Cap'n Ira Ball found in the kitchen of the old house on Wreckers' Head when he hobbled out of his bedroom the next morning was not the Ida May he had been wont to find of late, ready with his shaving materials, hot water, and a clean and voluminous checked apron to be tucked in about the neckband of his shirt.
He bowed when Theron looked at him, with the air of a lifelong admirer and humble friend. "I suppose you'll have claret with your breakfast, sir?" he remarked, as if it were a matter of course. "Why, certainly," answered Theron, stretching his legs contentedly under the table, and tucking the corner of his napkin in his neckband. "Certainly, my good man."
His eyes, glassy and bleared with pain, stared ahead of him with a sick man's fixed stare. Inside his convict's cotton shirt his chest was caved away almost to nothing, and from the collarless neckband his neck rose as bony as a plucked fowl's, with great, blue cords in it. Lacking a coverlet to pick, his fingers picked at the skin on his retreating chin.
He looked at McLean in an agony of entreaty that brought the Boss to his knees on the other side. "Oh, Freckles!" McLean cried. "Not that! Surely we can do something! We must! Let me see!" He tried to unfasten Freckles' neckband, but his fingers shook so clumsily that the Angel pushed them away and herself laid Freckles' chest bare.
Now, rocking in triumphant, glorious mirth, her plump shoulders hunched in very ecstasy, the child was on the peak! Expelled! Oh, gee! And all because she had put a caterpillar down Pearl Jane Tuttle's back. One little, measly caterpillar. Pearl Jane had sat right in front of her. A loose neckband round a scrawny neck.
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