At length I heard a slow and laborious shuffling of feet in the passage, and an old woman, wrapped in a patchwork quilt and wearing a white nightcap, opened the door.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
Or, at least, do it up, and not that hateful nightcap?"
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
Old Cheeseman one night walked in his sleep, put his hat on over his nightcap, got hold of a fishing rod and a cricket bat, and went down into the parlour, where they naturally thought from his appearance he was a Ghost.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes