Do we say pajamas or pyjamas

pajamas 60 occurrences

Thank her for the pajamas and the napkins.

He routed up Uncle John and the Major, who appeared in pajamas and bath-robes, and told them the startling news.

Well, say, if it hadn't been for the kindness of a friend I would at this time been pacing a prison corridor in striped pajamas. "Honest, when I came to this morning and Estellethat's my maidtold me what I had done, I vowed that I never would speak to a wine agent again, for I was just that mortified.

They were clad in pajamas, and appeared to be feeling the dressing-gown cord acutely.

The Head, who had had to leave his house in the small hours in his pajamas and a dressing gown, was not in the best of tempers.

Then four walls of a bedroom in Madison Avenue materialized, shutting out the horizon; a carpet in place of sand formed the floor; and in place of a blanket roll was a canopied bed upon which a servant had laid out a suit of pajamas.

It is a city of the sickof healing, ratherand on a bright day, with crowds of convalescents sitting about in their linen pajamas in the sun, stretcher-bearers going back and forth, the capable-looking surgeons with their strong, kind faces, pretty nurses in nun-like white, it all has the brisk, rather jolly air of any vigorous organism, going full blast ahead.

[Footnote A: The clock may safely be omitted from the above account, as later information would indicate that this may be an error, though there is no doubt that Mortimer at this time wore out two suits of the king's pajamas.

At a rather early hour the next morning, Felicia was awakened by the stealthy approach to her bedside of a small and cautious figure in pajamas.

Coming and going to baths here, whites throw off easily the fear of being thought immodest, and women and men alike go to and fro in loin-cloths, pajamas, or towels.

The hotel having grown slowly from a home, hardly any changes of plumbing had been made, and men and women in dressing-gowns, in pajamas, or in other undress came and went, under the interested gaze of idlers and drinkers, and they had often to endure intimate questions or badinage.

To this breakfast male guests dropped in from the bath in pajamas, but the déjeuner à la fourchette, or second breakfast at eleven, was more formal, and of four courses, fish, bacon and eggs, curry and rice, tongues and sounds, beefsteak and potatoes, feis, roast beef or mutton, sucking pig, and cabbage or sauer-kraut.

He was in pajamas, barefooted, and unshaven.

Adam stood behind a shape in blue pajamas, a hand locked on either of its elbows.

Woman in purple pajamas.

Woman in purple pajamas, by Willis Kent, pseud.

Woman in purple pajamas, by Willis Kent, pseud.

WHITE, E. B. Dusk in fierce pajamas.

Slipping off my pajamas, I seated myself on the broad window sill.

Dear Pierrepont: Since I got here, my rheumatism has been so bad mornings that the attendant who helps me dress has had to pull me over to the edge of the bed by the seat of my pajamas.

his dreams he had risen from his bed, and tripping lightly down to the surgery in his pajamas, mixed himself something long and cool and fizzy, without being able to bring the dream to a satisfactory termination.

He looked down in disgust at the ragged clothes which he had on in lieu of the usual pajamas; and then, as events slowly pieced themselves together in his mind, remembered, as the last thing that he could remember, that he had warned his friend Harry Thomson, solicitor, that if he had any more to drink it would not be good for him.

A belated lounger glanced up in surprise as Waring, booted and spurred, entered the lobby with a man in pajamas.

" For one hysterical moment my mind's eye pictured a dinner-table on Prairie Avenue with alternately a low-necked gown and a pair of pajamas, and I choked.

He was, or was soon to be, a belted earl, but his belt only appeared on his pajamas, raiment of which I heard then for the first time.

pyjamas 65 occurrences

He was in pyjamas and goggles.

It was Ronald, clad in pyjamas but unfailingly courteous, who invited her to enter.

How wonderful she must have looked in beach pyjamas!

He was wearing mauve pyjamas and carried a pistol.

Have you ever seen your uncle in pyjamas and a pistol?" "Never." "You haven't missed much.

Now, though Toddles has never to my knowledge appeared before the C.O. at dead of night attired in pink silk pyjamas, begging with tears in his eyes to be allowed to perform those duties which the dawn would in any case impose upon him (this practice is not really very common in the R.F.C.), he is a thoroughly sound and conscientious little beggar.

He turned and looked at her, as she walked flat-footed and ungainly, her pyjamas of pink cotton showing beneath her cloak.

" "Put me in my bed," said the little ruffian, "and I'll see;" and I was awakened at break of day by a small figure in pyjamas dancing at my bedside, shouting with unholy joy, "I'm here, you see, I'm here," and it was weeks before I could bring him to a better state of mind.

" With these perhaps should be mentioned Pyjamas and Shampoo, both of which have undergone strange perversions.

Pyjamas at last! and an untroubled sleep.

Did they ever shout and jump with joy in their pyjamas in the moonlight?

MY PYJAMAS.

I know all about pyjamas for summer wear; what I wanted was pyjamas for winter wear, and I decided that Agnes should make them.

I know all about pyjamas for summer wear; what I wanted was pyjamas for winter wear, and I decided that Agnes should make them.

For years I have been trying to get proper pyjamasby which I mean pyjamas properly madebut the haberdasher always smiles depreciation and tells me that the goods he offers me are what are always worn.

Quite so; but what I say is that out of bed and for the purpose of having your photograph taken Trade pyjamas are all right; but that in bed they commit untold offences.

" "My pyjamas," I said, "shall be buttoned round the ankle and capacious below the waistthere I ask a Turkish touch.

There was a fat man in a fireman's helmet and pyjamas, armed with a peashooter, riding a donkey backwardsand the moke wore two pairs of trousers!...

She was clad in pyjamas.

The corpse in the green pyjamas.

The corpse in the green pyjamas.

SEE Walling, R. A. J. WALLING, R. A. J. The corpse in the green pyjamas.

The corpse in the green pyjamas.

It was an unpleasant situation, wasn't it, Mamma, six women in nightgowns with their hands above their heads, Randolph an object of misery with his pink silk pyjamas torn, and the secretary lying in a pool of blood, unconscious, by the stairs, while two wretches covered the whole party with their revolvers!

So Casey cooked supper, washed the dishes and helped Babe into her pyjamas; then he let her kneel restively in his lap while she said her prayers, and told her a story while he rocked her to sleepit was a funny, Caseyish story about a bear, but we haven't time for it nowbefore he attempted to ask the Little Woman again what she meant by her mysterious curiosity concerning Injun Jim.

Do we say   pajamas   or  pyjamas