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Updated: May 3, 2025
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.
We must not forget to mention, although it probably belongs to a much more recent period, a fish-hook in reindeer horn, now in the Christiania Museum. It was found in a tomb in the island of Kjelnoe, not far from the Russian frontier. Numerous skeletons, wrapped up in swathings of birch-bark, repose in this tomb.
It reaches to below the knees, and is encircled around the waist by a broad home-woven sash, which is wrapped two or three times around the body, and has the end carelessly tucked in. 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.
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. He signed to his comrades to lift me carefully, and then put a bold face on the matter, and thanked the princess for her kindness. "Lady, I may be glad to beg a warm wrap or two from your store," he said.
Gladstone, that had belonged to the deceased, with inky swathings.
The green dwarf took it, dismissed him, threw open the lid. "Here is your apparel for the feast, Larree," he said, pointing to the contents. 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.
In them is the hiding as well as the showing of His power. 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. No longer befooled by shadows, we shall possess the true substance; no longer bedazzled by shows, we shall behold the reality. And seeing God we shall be satisfied.
And yet it seems to me as if it were the very intention of many of the customs of society to add tenfold to their gloom and horror, such swathings of black crape, such funereal mufflings of every pleasant object, such darkening of rooms, and such seclusion from society and giving up to bitter thoughts and lamentation.
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. Swifter than Yolara, she raised the arm that held the vine and now I knew this was no inert blossoming thing. It was alive!
He smiled cynically at the self of such a few years ago yet he could not meet those honest, fearless eyes that looked out at him from the mirror of memory. He was triumphant, but self-respect had gone and not all the thick swathings of vanity covered him from the stabs of self-contempt. "When I am really free, when the paper is paid for and I can do as I please, why not try to be a man again?
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