But a really foul appearance can come through every swathing and speak to every sense.

It was hard to tell with the bandages swathing the youth's corn-coloured head.

He studied the painted lid of the coffin again, and once more the body nestled in its dusty swathing.

He was naked except for the bandage between his legs, held in place by a swathing of tape around his hips.

Beneath the swathing I was naked.

She pulled it out of the case, then unwound the double barrel from its swathing of silk and wool.

He hadn't stirred in so long that the fire ants had quietly returned to their dank hideaway inside his surgical swathing.

Amanda Savard stood on the front step, the black velvet scarf swathing her head, hiding her wounds.

Alicen quickly reapplied his swathing.

As in the rest of the house, the decor was relentlessly Victorian, highly eclectic and dim due to excessive swathing of the windows.

They went upstairs to the big drawing-room and pulled up some of the blinds and removed the swathing from one of the sofas.

"Look at that," he said conversationally, bending down to poke with Khavrinen at something jutting from the white swathing.

"He goes with you," said Lakla, and threw about Yolara a swathing that covered the exquisite, alluring body.

Some 85 to 90 percent of this nation is controlled by the Taliban, known worldwide for their justice by amputation and the forced head-to-toe swathing of women.

I then forthwith began "Yet in my mortal swathing, I ascend To higher regions, and am hither come Through the fearful agony of hell.

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 face, within the muffled swathing which covered all the hair, was wrinkled and worn by years, but the lips curved in a smile which was open and welcoming.

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.

Around this swathing, for about two-thirds of the length of the trunk from the hips upward, were several turns of a well-made twisted cord, fastened in what is called the half-hitch, in good preservation.'

The manor had come to Sharington's great-grandfather Henry Sharington, who was steward to the Bishop of Ely, when he married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Edmund de Swathing.

He started toward the corner where the instrument stood beneath a swathing of hides, recoiled as an explosion of sparks scattered across the floor, then dove forward, swatting the bits of burning thatch away like flies.

Bondswomen in the tent offered her tea, sweets, mirrors, makeup, and hair oil, and helped her put on the complex swathing of fine red-and-yellow cloth, her costume for her brief enactment of Lady Tual.

The bandage swathing his cracked rib heaved to a quickened and apprehensive heartbeat, and the eyes that fixed steadily upon Cadfael were not greenish hazel, but almost as dark as the tangle of black curls.

But short of getting dressed, or rummaging in the hall cupboard for her Burberry, or swathing herself in her duvet and sweeping ornaments to the ground as she tiptoed through the sitting-room, she couldn't think of any solution.

But when he was perhaps the length of its search stick away, it moved with a speed he would not have thought possible for such a walking skeleton, swinging that same stick around to trip him up, while from the swathing of rags hooding its head came a shrill cackling.

Swathes of music came back as if for no reason.

Large swathes of the population have never had a job.

There was a new swathe of light among the stars.

This back swathe is then cut in the opposite direction.

Some were blackened as if by great swathes of fire.

The grass died in a long brown swathe behind him as he ran.

It is whole swathes of the economy that are wiped out.

A swathe of pale light came through the narrow window.

He took out his knife and cut a swathe to the hollow.

Feeling was dead set against the idea of a new road cutting a swathe through the countryside.

Along a wide swathe of cannon fire all was destroyed.

She could see his lips among the swathes of bandage.

Level with the ground and close to it, he burned a swathe through the brush ahead.

All utilities were knocked out across large swathes of the island.

This Government would do well to remember that when they bring in the next swathe of flight tax increases.

A swathe about ten yards wide had been cut into the forest from the water's edge.

That will open up an even larger swathe of the ocean deep to our ears.

Is there no broad swathe of people outside the universities who are willing to support you?

And in the meantime swathes of consumers were trying to choose between these?

Sooner or later, he'd come booming in with an energy swathe half a world wide.

The raiders had cut a wide swathe through the valleys.

The windrows or swathes are then turned over onto dry ground.

The war had cut a swathe of destruction across northern France and killed over half a million people.

Now he could see the wide swathe of destruction cutting through the forest.

Looks as if he was cutting a wide swathe in dear old London.

They had brought wraps and swathed her from head to feet.

Outside, I was once again swathed in heat and humidity.

She could feel a great body swathed in fat, strong muscles working.

My fire case was swathed, broken glass and all, just as I had left it.

Gina was swathed in green, and her eyes were closed.

On the other side of the water she could make out a hill, its top swathed in clouds.

For some reason half the man's face and one of his hands were swathed in bandages.

It swathed her up to the neck and down to the wrists.

She was swathed in black, with gray hair and severe glasses.

One was swathed in the insulation used for hot water pipes.

He was swathed in bandages, that increased the higher one looked.

Over his face was a surgical mask that swathed him to the eyes.

She took up the already damp towel and swathed herself in it.

Both were so swathed in clothing it was difficult to tell to what race they belonged.

He was swathed in a heavy blanket against the morning chill.

I spent days afterward with my hand swathed in bandages.

For a long moment, the man swathed in tattered blankets did not move.

The right hand of the corpse was swathed in bandages.

They got out of the boat, each swathed in a blanket, and studied the situation.

She was swathed in a long white cotton nightgown when he came back into the room.

The entire upper half of his head was swathed in bandages.

He put up a hand and saw it was swathed in soft bandages.

Swathed in velvet and fur, she is a handsome woman.

Three of the Garners were already swathed in green light and fighting back.

He was swathed in a long robe of red brocade.