She took a long, shuddering breath, then set to work, cutting through the fine silk wrapping.

Regis reached, with hesitant fingers, for his matrix; fumbled at taking it from its silk wrapping.

She scattered the books she'd stacked atop the pages then shredded the silk wrappings that guarded the priceless gatherings.

They went into the girls' bedroom, and returned with her creation, still in its blue silk wrapping.

"This is actually from all of us," she told the woman quietly, as Sandry pulled the silk wrappings away.

The grooms set down the casket and hurriedly removed from it a gold collar and a mass of silk wrapping.

The face is obscured, encased in steel, while the body, except for some prudent silk wrapping, is resplendently naked.

The blue silk wrappings unwound from the contents.

More, in spite of the silk wrappings, water had soaked into Helen's pistols, and mine also were useless.

He let its tattered silk wrappings flutter to the blood-slick floor.