| 单词 | swathing |
| 例句 | Sleep enveloped him like the swathing mirages that were wrestling with the brilliance of the lagoon. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Her cape hangs all the way to her feet, swathing her in gold-trimmed black. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z None of that is true, of course, though the show does correctly get her penchant for swathing herself in black, and her view of yoga as a panacea for many ills. Making Fun of Fashion, Onstage and in Song 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z It sold more than a million copies, swathing a nation of copycats in popped-collar Lacoste alligator shirts and sweaters knotted at the neck. The ‘Preppy Handbook’ & Me 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Out of drag, Mr. Charles still cuts a striking profile, swathing his beanpole frame in dapper suits and chunky glasses. For RuPaul, A Second Act with ‘Drag Race’ 2014-02-21T22:38:50Z In his recent “Arena,” he staged a playful and perverse three-hour pageant at the Brooklyn performance space Jack, swathing himself and his dancers in ribbon, foil and fabrics. Your Week in Culture: Jay-Z, Eugene O’Neill and ‘Princess Bride’ in Theaters Nationwide 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Or should they favor femininity: the clothes soft and cuddly, swathing the body? Céline’s Scissor Sister 2014-03-02T20:20:24Z A cascade of blonde frames her face, flowing seamlessly into the airy tunics she wears, each a slightly grander version of those swathing her staff. Nicole Kidman is ready to Goop you now in Hulu's hollow "Nine Perfect Strangers" 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Yet even after they manipulated the fabric into skirts and aprons and shed the swathing, the concepts and choreography appeared to hold them back on a deeper level. Review: Passion Fruit Dance Company Brings the Club to the Stage 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z College in the late 1990s was probably my makeup peak, but it mostly involved generously swathing myself in glitter and the occasional experiment with purple lipstick. How to Do a Makeup Look in 5 Minutes. Tops. 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z But now celebrities in advanced stages of pregnancy tend to make the scene, often swathing their bellies in head-turning fashion. Pregnancy Takes a Turn on the Red Carpet 2013-05-15T22:24:07Z Guadagnino clearly intends for these themes of seduction, allure and glamour to envelop the audience, like silk fabric swathing an arched foot sole. ‘Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams’ Review: For the Heel of It 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Masi speculates Comet Pons-Brooks’s horseshoe shape may result from shadows cast by the dusty “coma” swathing the object after the outburst. ‘Millennium Falcon’ Comet Sprouts Icy Wings as It Loops around the Sun 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z A later segment is dedicated to the art nouveau dancer Marie Louise Fuller and her efforts “to disappear inside the rigors and extravagance of her work” by swathing herself in otherworldly costumes. Review | ‘Affinities’ opens our eyes to the ‘mundane miracle of looking’ 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z André glided around the globe like a French king, swathing himself in glittering caftans and sable coats custom-made by his designer friends. Opinion | Farewell, André the Glorious 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z Ahead of the Cub Creek fire, crews are swathing the historic North Twentymile Fire Lookout in foil-like protective wrap, fire officials said. Wildfires, smoke bring early end to Winthrop’s tourism season 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z European lace, elbow-length gloves, empire waists, trumpet beading, power suits and tulle kept swathing capital women through suffrage, wars, prohibition, depressions, scandals and social upheaval. Perspective | A holdout from Washington’s era of opulence finally gives in 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z In 2017, authorities patched and widened the column by injecting resins, swathing it in carbon fiber, and building a jacket of additional rebar and concrete around the base. Mexico City subway collapse was a tragedy foretold 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z The parents trash one another like professional wrestlers as the board members stammer genteelly, swathing their similar hostilities in H.R.-department-safe passive aggression. Experiments with Context in “Betrayal” and “Eureka Day” 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Regardless, this is a glorious, swathing torch song that sounds like 100 Beiruts being fired from the German howitzers at Verdun. The tracks of the weeks reviewed: Lana Del Rey, Westlife, Axl Rose 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Has Mackie created gay icons – by swathing them in sequins – or have existing gay icons approached him because they like his aesthetic? ‘Gay icons like to dress up’: Bob Mackie on Cher, Tina Turner and dressing Elton John as Donald Duck 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z She paints around him, maintaining intimate contact and swathing his sound in limpid harmonies. The Playlist: Nine Inch Nails and Shabazz Palaces Issue Retorts for Anxious Times 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z That regimen was followed by swathing the baby’s lower body in compression bandages, which made him look like the Michelin man. What caused a newborn twin’s badly swollen legs 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z A light snow is falling, swathing the quadrangle in white. Heartworm : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Elizabeth I thought better of trying to assert her authority by swathing herself in scarlet. Weekendish: The best of the week's reads 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z This reminds me of my childhood days, swathing hay, plowing fields and planting fields.” Brett Keisel takes his tractor to work. All players should do this. 2012-07-26T15:08:08Z The ivy creeps around the riven tower, concealing its injuries, and upholding it by a tough swathing of stalks. Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland 2012-05-22T15:16:54.237Z He was plainly dressed in a swathing of native cloth, the only distinction between himself and an ordinary warrior being that, in place of a broad scarlet end, it had a sort of Cashmere pattern. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z Lola sought to improve the occasion by swathing herself somberly and right becomingly in crape, and by vowing a vendetta against the slayer. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z While sealing, he thought, as we all do, how this cover was the seed-husk of a great entire Future, the rind of many sweet or bitter fruits, the swathing of his whole after-life. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z Wogan thought of the Highland belief in the shroud of mist that is seen swathing men doomed soon to die, as were so many of them. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z I do so long to see him swathing you in his coils! The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z He had eased out the cork, and the soul of the wine was frothing forth into the swathing cloth when he blinked at the empty chair; then his eyes went across to Persis. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Of the two godmothers and the godfather in the lay dress of the fourteenth century, the first holds a babe in her arms in swaddling clothes, the swathing band being crossed again and again. Ecclesiastical Curiosities 2011-12-13T03:00:24.507Z When I went down to the raft a little later, I found the old rat stripped to the waist and Earl engaged in swathing the burned back in the folds of the white table-cloth. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z The women had tight little bonnets and still tighter little knots of hair; their round chins rested on a close swathing of lace or in some cases on throttling silver chains and circlets. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z We can be assured, however, that so long as women swim, they will not repeat history by swathing themselves with yards of fabric. Women's Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States 2011-10-03T02:00:33.640Z The advice was acted upon, and presently Fannie, still with the handkerchief swathing her forehead, looking very nervous and pale, entered the room. The Motor Maids' School Days 2011-09-17T02:00:33.303Z It was packed in a gigantic case, and it required four master carpenters to open it and disentangle it from all its swathing bands and wrappings. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z And there, in the half dark made by the drawn window-curtains he saw her lying in the wide, white bed, her beauty hidden—or was it her hideousness—by swathing white cloths. The Tigress 2011-08-30T02:00:39.657Z Every tree was the support of a parasitic community, lianas swathing it and binding it. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z As the girl went, Kitty took up the amber hair-pins from her lap and began swathing her hair about her head. The Return of the Soldier 2011-08-26T02:00:23.937Z I never danced in all my born days, and, in this devil's swathing, I can scarcely stir; but, if the queen commands it, I should be able to fly. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z The forests and meadows were coming out of the mist of morning, as if out of swathing bands. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z The bud, which had been closed so long and firmly, was now ripe to burst its swathings; and Wilhelm's heart could never have been readier to welcome the impressions of affection. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z The speaker was a lad with brown, curly hair and a laughing, merry face, at present, however, half covered with a swathing of bandages. A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism 2011-05-15T02:00:10.653Z Swellings of the lower extremities are uncommon, as these people are in the habit of swathing their legs, which renders them all slender and well shaped. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland 2011-05-10T02:01:00.460Z While sealing, he thought, as we all do, how this cover was the seed-husk of a great entire Future, the rind of many sweet or bitter fruits, the swathing of his whole after life. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z For the matter of that, as she sat huddled in the enormous chair I could see little beyond a swathing of veils round a close-fitting hat and the folds of the long black coat. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z She laced up the back of the dress with the slender, golden cords; she arranged the antique drapery which wound itself around in close swathing folds. Louisiana 2011-02-18T03:00:21.217Z A cry of admiration arose as Alison lifted it from the last swathings and held it up to view. Briarwood Girls 2011-01-11T03:00:30.337Z Silence wrapped the amphitheater about, like tight swathing. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Her hands smoothed down the body of a frock I had not seen before—a sooty shower of black chiffon over I know not what intricately-simple and expensive-looking swathing below. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z Till you have severed her from Rizzio— Have swept her from perdition— Into your swathing arms! Porzia Sometimes, indeed, they had to fight with denser masses, which often prevailed, swathing the mountains in deep neutral tint, but which, again yielding, left the glory of the sunrise augmented by contrast with their gloom. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. From his seat Mottin could see nothing of the pilot but his head and shoulders—a back view only, and that obscured by swathings of leather and wool. H.M.S. —— The remedy found to be the most effectual, consisted in taking about one quart of blood from the head, swathing it with cloths saturated with cold water, and giving two drachms daily of calomel. Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. Then he sprang up, and his body dilated so that the wrappings and swathings that had been bound on him flew off, and he armed himself and rushed into the battle. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race Franco finished swathing his orange trees and came into the house for his cape, intending to go to church at Albogasio. The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico And there came a skilful leech and searched the wounds of Sir Launcelot and spread soothing unguents upon them and bound them up with swathings of linen. The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions Beneath her swathing motor veil, Mrs. Venables' face was alight with exaltation. The Furnace A similar disease in Spain is cured by copious bleeding, and swathing the head in blankets constantly wet with hot water. Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. The custom of swathing babies with bandages is very ancient. Tuscan Sculpture of the Fifteenth Century A Collection of Sixteen Pictures Reproducing Works by Donatello, the Della Robia, Mino da Fiesole, and Others, with Introduction The pale hair was twisted round the head in identically the same fashion as of yore, the white satin dress, with the swathing of tulle round the shoulders, followed the same natural lines. What a Man Wills The corpse was treated with natron and asphalt, and wound in a copious swathing of linen bandage, with a mask of linen and stucco on the face. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" Slowly, a pair of lean, brown hands came out from the swathing blanket and parted the long locks that served as a veil to hide a haggard, sorrowful face. The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn Then, still hopeful, I would face my cabin and soon after swathing myself in the brief sheets of the bunk would be asleep. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday Similarly swathing the other, he dropped the rubber-coated bag to the ground and stepped squarely on it. Under Boy Scout Colors Lilith invariably wore white in the evening,—simple, little white satin frocks devoid of ornament, save for a soft swathing of tulle, from which her shoulders arose, fair and rounded. What a Man Wills It drew near to the door, and, in the light, the grey swathing of fur became apparent, and the cavernous hood lapping about the head identified the Spirit of the Moosefoot Indians. In the Brooding Wild Apparently his hairbreadth escape from death tore from his eyes the swathings of conventional opinion with which he had been blinded. Modern marriage and how to bear it October is come with long, bright, hazy days, swathing in purple mists the rainbow brightness of the forests, and blending the otherwise gaudy and flaunting colors into wondrous harmonies of splendor. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine On a shelf close to me stood cats in dissipated attitudes, mere yellow bundles of swathings and fustiness. Aliens Judith saw girls with light-coloured gowns showing under dark coats, and swathing veils that preserved elaborate coiffures. The Wishing Moon He dashed to 296 the house door and locked it; then, with a pale face and bitten lip, he drew near, pulled aside a corner of the swathing blanket, and recoiled, shuddering. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) I had two rehearsals yesterday, which did not mend matters, but I have bolstered myself up pro tem., and what with inhaling hot water and swathing my throat in cold, and lozenges and gargles, etc., Records of Later Life "Where is my cloak," she asked, as on setting her down she perceived the deficiency; "and what are those ugly things?" and she looked at the swathing round her arms and legs. Through Russian Snows A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow Literature is always calling in the doctor for consultation and confession, and always giving evasions and swathing suppressions in place of that ‘heroic nudity’ on which only a genuine diagnosis . . . can be built. A Critic in Pall Mall Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies Joan was coming now swiftly with lengths of wire, soft thick material for swathing. Slaves of Mercury Darkness wrapped him as if it were the soft swathing of some black cocoon. Two Thousand Miles Below The sea should be rough and tempestuous, and full of swirling eddies and foam among the high waves, and the wind hurls the spray through the tumultuous air like a thick and swathing mist. Thoughts on Art and Life "Be silent, Uriel," begged his aged mother, dreading a breach of the happiness her soul had found at last in its old spiritual swathings. Dreamers of the Ghetto I’d take to swathing myself in chiffons and have my hair a different tint each season. The Gorgeous Girl His sensation, he discovered, was due to a thick swathing of bandages. In the Orbit of Saturn Now and again appearing out of the folds of swathing mist we see little islands and gaily painted fishing-boats, the owners of which seem bent on committing suicide. Round the Wonderful World It is told of Augustus, as a strange and almost unknown thing, that he wore breeches and stockings, or leg swathings, because he suffered continually with cold. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome A shepherd lad, brought in from the hills in his sheepskin coat, sheepskin breeches, and leg swathings of rags and leather, would naturally be the butt of such an establishment. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome But, ‘to dissect human nature under its society swathings needs,’ she adds, ‘the skill of a Balzac or a Thackeray, while the feminine counterpart of a Balzac or a Thackeray is difficult to find.’ Australian Writers The youth made no effort to revive him until he had completed his hasty but rude swathing of the arm, which was badly shattered by a bullet. The Young Ranchers or, Fighting the Sioux It was bandaged, as all Italian children are, from head to foot, the swathings enveloping both arms and legs, displaying only its little feet at one extremity, and its round chubby face at the other. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge May the good Ptah open my mouth, and may the god of my city loose the swathings, even the swathings which are over my mouth. Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings Tims could not fail to recognize that willowy figure, with its rare grace of motion, that amber hair, those turquoise-blue eyes that gleamed through the swathing veil with a restless brilliancy unusual even in them. The Invader A Novel These rolls of papyrus are found in the coffins, or under the swathings of the mummies, between the legs, on the breast, or under the arms. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life The mists of dawn have scarcely lifted their gossamer veils from the dreaming sea, when the pinnacled rocks of Rum and Aye, the outposts of the Banda group, pierce the swathing vapours. Through the Malay Archipelago Not the least interesting sight there is the gods of Egypt,—cats, ibises, fish, monkeys, heads of calves and bulls, all lying in their original swathings. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge When they find the leg and the swathings they bury them.” Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings The swathings certainly are somewhat tight; and rose-leaves may be twisted till there is no breaking them. The Bertrams The birdlike little old woman was out in her front yard swathing her rosebushes in straw and mulching their roots against the harder frosts of winter which were already due. The Mission of Janice Day It rears itself up like a great cliff, and its base is never without wreaths and flowers swathing it. The Children's Book of London Taking up the casket, the monk, with infinite bowings and crossings, undid its swathings, and solemnly drew forth the Bambino. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge He now observed the swathings about the elder's breast, beneath the crumpled soft shirt. The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play So indeed it proved, for the mage began rapidly to divest himself of his mysterious swathings. He As the tallest of the three, the old man stood up after swathing his head in dried grass, and gazed across the curve of the shore. Blackbeard: Buccaneer The aether which conveys the pulses of light and heat not only fills celestial space, swathing suns, and planets, and moons, but it also encircles the atoms of which these bodies are composed. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Eight out of the eleven were naked as at the hour of their birth, with the exception of a narrow swathing of cotton cloth around their hips and thighs. Ran Away to Sea Their dress is of the simplest and scantiest kind—a hip-cloth swathing their bodies from waist to mid-thigh, closely akin to the “breech-clout” of the Northern Indian, only of a different material. Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco He himself, owing to his use of his swathings, was sufficiently décolleté 28 I think I've managed not to be libellous.—Ed. He We were not aware of the nicety which was demanded to complete the folds of this superior swathing; but, after this development, who shall pronounce a dandy idle? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Standing there under the strange flickering light of her torch, with the black folds of the rubber coat swathing her, her face, with its fine eyes, was cut out for Steering sharp as a cameo. Sally of Missouri It was dark within the pass, from the shadow of the jutting masses; but now darker than usual, for black storm-clouds were swathing the cliffs overhead. The Scalp Hunters They fastened down her arms by swathing her with a plaid, tied a cloth over her mouth, threw another over her head, and carried her to the door. The Billow and the Rock The covering was not so much a robe as a swathing, and we had time to discuss it briefly. The Shadow World Across the table is a man with an enormous white rag swathing his thumb. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell There was an endless swathing of people, buildings, faces, words, that wound itself tightly about her. Erik Dorn The picture was appalling; and, adding to its awful impression, black clouds were at the moment rolling over the valley, and swathing the mountains in their opaque masses. The Scalp Hunters She had a fashion of swathing her head, cap-fashion, in wide pink ribbon, and her crêpe kimonos always reflected the same enchanting hue. Glory of Youth He looked down at her—such a mite in her black swathings!—and smiled. Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Such a thing as the swathing stone of South Inchkea is not known to have existed. Notes and Queries, Number 181, April 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. I should have swathings of cotton wool a foot wide, for it made my ankles ache just to see the sticks swinging about! Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story I thought little Hope was asleep in the swathing shawl, till I saw the dark round spots of her eyes. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story The raiders flashed through the smoke and dust, here seen in a rift for one brief glance, there lost in the swathing pall that swallowed all but their high-pitched yells and shots. Trail's End He arose, holding the lantern high; and stared, shaking, into a face which no uncomely linen swathings could disguise from him—into eyes which death only would teach him to forget. Fort Amity With a triumphant sweep of the arm, she pulled aside the swathing black veil, to disclose the mirthful features of Emma Dean, minus her glasses. Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer And secondly, this investiture, why is it transverse to the trunk,—swathing it, as it were, in bands? Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers His head had emerged slowly, month by month, from swathings of gauze. Gigolo To a limpness almost unbelievable the eager little figure wilted down within its blanket-wrapper swathings. Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs He had had days to accustom himself to the bulk of the robe, but still its swathings were sometimes a hindrance rather than a help. Key Out of Time This means swathing them round and round, and finally adding an outer covering of newspaper, which has a much-vaunted reputation for keeping cold out. Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour Nevertheless, a rope was bound about her slicker, round and round from her shoulders to her ankles, swathing her like the bandages of a mummy, until she was almost as stiff as one. The She Boss A Western Story During periods which stagger computation, this molten world was gradually cooled down; constant rivers wrung from the densely swathing vapor poured over the heated mass and at last submerged its crust in an immense sea. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life I stripped off the bulky wrappings in which the harp had been carried up to this time, leaving only a swathing of fine silk. Tales of Destiny She danced with them at cabarets; she danced as a nymph for patriotic entertainments, with snow-white bare feet and legs and a swathing of Spring woodland green tulle and leaves and primroses. Robin Sea-mists are frequent in the early summer mornings, swathing the cliffs of Capri in impenetrable wool and brooding on the perfectly smooth water till the day-wind rises. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series Not one was lacking; all were there, put away like fetishes, perfumed with love, tied up with ribbons like the balsam and swathings of a mummified life. Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda) When their swathing canvas and sacking was thrown aside, the boxes stood revealed as stout chests banded with iron. Ralestone Luck I witnessed one case in which the mother was tightly bound with swathing clothes and the husband called upon to exert his strength in an endeavor to force delivery. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir The baby monkey is closely wrapped in the swathing bands with which one is familiar as the early trussing of European children. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance "Oh, holy and beautiful Age!" exclaimed the poet, "why dost thou lie in thy soft swathings of light, and power to do mighty deeds, so far behind us in the past?" The Children's Portion That is why he insists upon swathing His person with layers of fat. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920 The boy recognized her at the same moment, and his mouth seemed to gape wider, and a moist red overspread his face down to his swathing woollen scarf. The Portion of Labor It was no doubt originally used for swathing or wrapping the corpses buried. The Mound Builders Therewithall he rolled down on to the floor, and lay there helplessly, only able to roll to and fro, because of the swathings. The World of Romance being Contributions to The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, 1856 Margaret looked at her, her small black eyes peering out wrathfully from her swathing woollens. Madelon A Novel She allowed her wrapper to remain open at the neck, exposing her old throat, and dispensed with her usual swathing of lace. The Debtor A Novel Those who had braved the weather rather than face the close air below looked up, mummy-wise, from their swathings with hopes of returning appetites. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 Dreams, dreams of self, that man wraps himself in like the swathing of a mummy. Trifles for the Christmas Holidays A white sun swathing itself in mist, the fine outlines of trees on the heights, and the great spaces in light. Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915 The children are nursed but little, not confined by any swathing or bandages, and, being suffered to roll about the floor, soon learn to walk and shift for themselves. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants An American doctor who was delicately swathing his nervous patient in cotton wool, explained that, as part of the process, she must be secluded from everything unpleasant. Americans and Others Her robes were a double thickness of loose-meshed white linen, with a delicate stripe of scarlet; her head-dress a single swathing of scarlet gauze. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt A little later she took him out upon the sidewalk, after swathing him from head to foot in a light-blue veil that floated about her like a strip of sky. The Voice of the People The wizard dixit— Oengus' steed he made alive, while he yet in cradle rested; God this marvel did contrive, by Ciaran, in swathing vested. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints Thence again to the galley he set forth and flew, fleet as a thought, in shape a man lusty and strong, in his first youth, his locks swathing his wide shoulders. The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological Young girls are terribly honest; they dig down to the very root of things; they drag off the swathing cloths from the mummy face of conventionality. Uncle Max The swathing of linen—he had unwound it to where the hands should have been folded on the breast—had enclosed excelsior. Bunker Bean He secured the banian; and, swathing himself in its cool, sibilant folds, he fell, his face hid in an angle of his arm, into an immediate profound slumber. The Three Black Pennys A Novel The little open carriage is at the door, and into this I step, swathing my gown carefully up in a huge shawl. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 The swathings partly hid his features, and the pulled-down hat further obscured them. The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border Literature is always calling in the doctor for consultation and confession, and always giving evasions and swathing suppressions in place of that ‘heroic nudity,’ on which only a genuine diagnosis . . . can be built. Reviews Under the swathing of linen he could see where the hands were folded on the breast. Bunker Bean Lady Frensham had arrived from London by automobile; she appeared in veils and swathings and a tremendous dust cloak, with a sort of nephew in her train who had driven the car. Mr. Britling Sees It Through The red bandana swathing his bead, below which was a lank fringe of black hair, was the only bizarre thing she noticed about her new-found relative. Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper And indeed there had not been a single chirp from any of the swathings. Andrew the Glad And before all this had deepened to purple darkness the full moon would swing up the sky, swathing the earth with a softened radiance. Vanguards of the Plains Even yet the princess might wish to see that my swathings were comfortable, and if I once had my mouth freed for a moment all was lost to him. A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex As for her face and hair, they were completely hidden in the swathings of a motor-veil. The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight Despite his dignity and the reverence of his bearing, he did look peculiar with that 'kerchief swathing his crown. Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper A papoose, all done up in swathing bands, aroused no little curiosity, and when some venturesome passenger with a kodak tried to take a picture of the infant, the mother quickly turned away. By the Golden Gate Put a head of bruised garlic on the navel at bed time, and fasten it with a swathing band. The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy I saw the look of the prince change as he marked the many swathings that told of Owen's sore hurts. A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex But the Graeco-Egyptian medium did not undo the swathings of linen, in which he was rolled, like a mummy. The Making of Religion I was a Worshiper of the Sun, and in a pink feather, pink swathings of muslin, and black arms, I was again struck by my own beauty. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections Paris is the head-quarters of medical science; yet in Paris, to this day, the poor babies in the great hospital of La Maternité are so tortured in tight swathings that not a limb can move. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 56, June, 1862 In case her back should be very weak, a swathing band should be placed under it, the band being doubled four times and about four inches broad. The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy Hitherto, said Richter of The Comet, he had paid too great deference to rule, "like a child born curled and forthwith stretched on a swathing cushion." The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Underneath that there were rude swathings of flannel; five or six yards of flannel are tied comforter-fashion about his neck. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth "No, but it might help you, if I could rip off that swathing of idealization you've wrapped around him," Fyfe observed patiently. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest These can come straight to table without any trouble of swathing with napkins, paper collars, and the like. Reform Cookery Book (4th edition) Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century. O'Keefe stared, reached down and drew out a white, shimmering, softly metallic, long-sleeved tunic, a broad, silvery girdle, leg swathings of the same argent material, and sandals that seemed to be cut out from silver. The Moon Pool "They will certainly be misled," Letton agreed, his eerie gray eyes blazing out from the voluminous folds of the huge Mueller with which he was swathing his neck to the ears. Burning Daylight He made a pretence of swathing me up in fresh rawhide ropes, but his knots were loose and the thing was a farce. Prester John Out of a swathing of tissue paper her hands bared sundry small articles. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Ginx's Baby, brought from the convent, stripped of his papal swathings and enveloped in a handsome outfit presented by an amiable Protestant Duchess, was placed in a cradle with his head resting on a Bible. Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire But before she could level it the Golden Girl had released that hidden left arm and thrown over her face a fold of the metallic swathings. The Moon Pool The blinds were all drawn, the sunlight kept out, one could not tell what colors these gray swathings hid. Ann Veronica, a modern love story She was muffled up in hood and cloak, but one who loved Nais as I loved could not mistake the form of Ylga, her twin sister, because of mere swathings. The Lost Continent When he came downstairs the motor was at the door, and Anna stood before the hall mirror, swathing her hat in veils. The Reef They were naked, save for swathings of scarlet cloth about the middle; and their skins were of a dull pinkish-drab colour, such as I had seen in no savages before. The Island of Doctor Moreau He ripped from him glittering tunic and leg swathings. The Moon Pool It was that of a very tall old man, entirely dressed in white flannel—a very long spencer, and some sort of white swathing about his head. Wylder's Hand The bandages and splints and drugs and swathings were all gone now, and his sole task was to gather strength. The Gentleman from Indiana He says in "Henry the Fourth"— "This infant Hotspur, Mars in swathing clothes." The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 The Swine folk followed, squealing with excitement, and the two Bull-men in their swathings of white. The Island of Doctor Moreau She passed through a curtaining; then as swiftly as she had gone she returned through the hangings, tresses braided, a swathing of golden gauze about her. The Moon Pool Its rules were wholesome swathing bands for the modern languages when in their infancy. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene A lion-springe! a laver's swathing cloth, Wrapping a dead man, twining round his feet— A net, a trammel, an entangling robe? The House of Atreus The windless air was damp and penetratingly chilly, so that we almost shivered under our swathings. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Before him knelt the Parson with low head, swathing his feet with strips of torn towel, absorbed as a surgeon, careful as a mother. The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Sparks and flashes of white flame darted from the ring, penetrating the radiant swathings of the Dweller, striking through its pulsing nucleus, piercing its seven crowning orbs. The Moon Pool He was triumphant, but self-respect had gone and not all the thick swathings of vanity covered him from the stabs of self-contempt. The Great God Success But there the veil which draped the perfect likeness, and gave but dim hints through its heavy swathings of the outline of immortal beauty that lay beneath, shall fall away. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms The weather was close, and being satisfied, and, for once, frugal, George cooked the two remaining fish, and swathing them neatly in fresh green leaves, sauntered away, cooing a corroboree of content. My Tropic Isle While engaged in these, she wore a species of sightly handkerchief like a turban upon her head and about her person those mystical swathings in which old ladies of the African race delight. Suburban Sketches That part of his face which showed through the swathings about his head was terribly swollen and purple with congested blood. Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front This swathing only allows the young girls to take very short steps, and this timidity of gait, in unison with their downcast eyes, gives them a very modest appearance. The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes All swathing, except with a single bandage around the abdomen, is decidedly unreasonable, injurious and cruel. The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health After the last girl had had her turn the veiled leader mounted the platform and threw back her swathing net. Betty Gordon at Boarding School The Treasure of Indian Chasm What does the coaster, in his brief walk "three steps and overboard," hum to himself, as he tramps up and down his little deck through the swathing mists of a Bank fog? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 They trussed me with ropes, binding my hands cruelly behind my back, and swathing my legs till not a muscle could move. Salute to Adventurers The cord tautened; the swathings sundered and fell from the gleaming splendor of marble, and a blinding flash, followed by another, and a third, blotted out the scene in unbearable radiance. Average Jones Round and round the Titans' earthy forms Rolled the hot vapor, and on fiery surge Streamed upward, swathing in one boundless blaze The purer air of heaven. Mosaics of Grecian History In winter, he was protected against the inclemency of the weather by a thick toga, four tunics, a shirt, a flannel stomacher, and swathings upon his legs and thighs 234. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete That man and his father before him lived by pretending things they didn't feel, by swathing reality with all manner of crepe and trumpery. Three Soldiers All white and broken he lay, a crushed wreck of a man, with the cluttering contrivances of science swathing him, binding him, encasing him, holding him miserably together while the tide of life ran out. The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me From out of the swathings in which she had wrapped her bonnet, her face gleamed sad and troubled. Further Chronicles of Avonlea They stood on the landing, Kemp speaking swiftly, the grotesque swathings of Griffin still on his arm. The Invisible Man Then she picked up the long train, wound it tightly round her limbs, pinioning and swathing them in the folds of satin, and secured the folds with a cord about the knees. At the Villa Rose Below the scarlet draperies swathing Chiquita's voluptuous outlines appeared the gold stockings and the high-heeled gold slippers which she had tried on her beautiful Andalusian feet. Angel Island Whereupon the magnificent Rajput, in his diamond aigrettes and his silken swathings, and the broad shouldered British officer, in his Queen's red coat, solemnly kissed each other. The Story of Sonny Sahib My eyes are growing accustomed to the gloom that stagnates in the cave, and I can make out pretty well this row of people whose bandages and swathings dimly whiten their beads and limbs. Under Fire: the story of a squad What the good little mother found the most trouble from, in the extreme smallness and delicacy of the limbs of her new-born doll baby, was the impossibility of swathing and dressing it. Piccolissima Once more, out of the swathing fog, hands touched her. The Lamp of Fate From these swathing disguises there first emerged, as if from a chrysalis, a black-clad, distinguished-looking young woman whom I had never seen before. The Firefly of France Down from the wondrous face melted the rounded column of her throat to merge into exquisite curves of shoulders and breasts, half revealed beneath the swathing veils. The Metal Monster One looks to the swathing of the breech and the plugging of the muzzle, precautions which trench-dirt renders indispensable. Under Fire: the story of a squad Then she wept and with her wept the old woman, who, going up to Abu al-Hasan and uncovering his face, saw his eyes bound and swollen for the swathing. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] Numerous skeletons, wrapped up in swathings of birch-bark, repose in this tomb. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples Its windows were crowded with faces, white as their swathings, worn, spent, deep-lined, from which looked forth eyes, indifferent, staring, but undaunted and indomitable. The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land Robed in her silken amber swathings, red-copper hair streaming, woven with elfin sparklings, she was racing toward the City like some lovely witch, riding upon the back of a steed of huge cubes. The Metal Monster Over the Bow and the Elbow mists hung like white veils swathing the faces of the rampart hills north and south. The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail He whispered to his master that Sidney had opened the packing case and the mummy coffin, and had ripped the swathings to get the jewels. The Green Mummy The spirit of colour was flying in the distant trees, swathing them with brownish-purple haze; the sky was saffroned by dying sunlight. Fraternity Then he removed the swathing from the swords, and, crossing them, presented the hilts to Sir Terence. The Snare The feet are covered with moccasins, to which are attached swathings of buckskin, which are wrapped around and around the legs, until they are as large as ordinary sized stovepipes. The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it Standing over the compactly-fastened swathing of clothes, Laddie bent down and sniffed. Further Adventures of Lad Meanwhile Professor Braddock had passed a very pleasant hour in examining the swathings of the mummy. The Green Mummy That was true, as regarded the bright nankeens, the blue coat with gold buttons, and the showiest of cambric kerchiefs swathing him up to the very chin. John Halifax, Gentleman Pride, an excellent quality making for courage and patience, still appears in the swathings of arrogance. The Fawn Gloves With that swathing band which death unbinds I go upward, and I came hither through the infernal anguish. Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Purgatory He found that his arm was bandaged to the elbow and held close to his side by a complex swathing. The Seventh Man He examined the portions where the swathings had been cut with some sharp instrument, to reveal the dry, bony hands, which formerly had held the costly jewels. The Green Mummy The two hind-legs fling this shroud gradually, by rapid alternate armfuls, while, at the same time, they turn the prey over and over, swathing it completely. The Life of the Spider There were females in the hut who were swathing the corpse in its bloody plaid before carrying it from the fatal spot. Chronicles of the Canongate Then taking out the pins that fastened the swathings, she exhibited to Cerizet a bundle of linen which to her poor distracted mind represented a baby. The Lesser Bourgeoisie She stood in the middle of the room; her white garments lay like foamy waves at her feet, and among them the swathings of her face: it was lovely as a night of stars. Lilith, a romance But the swathings had been cut; the hands protruded and the emeralds were gone—torn rudely from the hard grip of the dead. The Green Mummy He dashed to the house door and locked it; then, with a pale face and bitten lip, he drew near, pulled aside a corner of the swathing blanket, and recoiled, shuddering. The Wrong Box I brought the silk from China—smuggled it through the Russian customs by swathing it round my body. In a German Pension Here we have, as before, the swathing of space round every atom. Faraday as a Discoverer |
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