Bed-gowned

We could but admire the decorum and politeness—heightened by occasional little acts of well-timed gallantry, displayed by these smock-frocked beaux towards their bed-gowned belles.

A most emphatic “Woa, Smiler!” abruptly terminated his display of vocal melody, for the cart was now at Mr. Slaughter’s door, the night bell of which Padds rung long and loudly, until, in anxious anticipation of a some profitable patient, the surgeon, putting his bed-gowned body half out of an upper window, demanded the reason of being thus disturbed.

A coach breakfast—what horrible recollections these words conjure up! what head-achery, weary, crampy, teeth-chattery, dusty, dirty, dingy reminiscences! what backslum, stable-yard, bare-armed, red elbowed, bed-gowned, slip-shod associations they present to one’s too-vivid recollection!

The pantomime scenes are well arranged, especially a view of house-tops, where a good deal of comic business takes place, ending with a wholesale slaughter of cats and irruption of bed-gowned and disturbed sleepers.

As light crept into the square and found her face and figure, the bed-gowned maidservant’s hair and eyes had reflected highlights of the golden stone shaping the house behind her.[…]Shortly after four in the afternoon, Jonys stood staring at the steps the bed-gowned maid had ascended at dawn.