I would have to go on without my boots, but the wrappings were a safeguard I dared not relinquish. From Wordnik.com. [Dread Companion]
"Inside the wrappings was a battered but full-sized human skeleton. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
You will remove your outer wrappings and stand forth. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference
He lay on the desk an object in wrappings of dirty rags. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
He carefully took the two scrolls out of their silk wrappings. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
She turned, and put on her wrappings with a feeling of exultation. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Elinor, helped by Miss Jinny, shed her wrappings and stood revealed as. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
She examined the wrappings again, but no identifying mark could be found. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
And he had not cared to look very closely at the figure in those wrappings. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
Out in the street, Ned Allison removed the wrappings from the little package. From Wordnik.com. [The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country] Reference
(Do not remove them from their sterile wrappings until you are ready to use them.). From Wordnik.com. [Emergency Childbirth A Reference Guide for Students of the Medical Self-help Training Course, Lesson No. 11] Reference
In the first tier, the coffins were quite decayed, and the wrappings had moldered away. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
He carefully hauled it all forth and the japanned box tumbled out of its loose wrappings. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
"I believe it's somebody's wedding-dress," said Blanche, as she helped to undo the wrappings. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls] Reference
The dead were placed in mummy-form wrappings and buried, mother and child in one, unmarked grave. From Wordnik.com. [Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method] Reference
"What do you think of that?" he asked, removing the wrappings and holding up the rusty, metallic box. From Wordnik.com. [That Mainwaring Affair] Reference
These are sharpened and notched and are held apart by small wedges securely fixed by wrappings of cord. From Wordnik.com. [Negritos of Zambales] Reference
As for that wonderful chap, he was soon covered from the sight of his friends in the wrappings of paper. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a White Rocking Horse] Reference
I did all I could to relieve him, and purchased some large moccasins to allow more wrappings for his feet. From Wordnik.com. [Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police] Reference
He had the wrappings off, and I leaned forward, a little breathless at the beauty of the thing in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
Others were so entwined with white wrappings that it was hard to say whether they were men or oriental women. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays Or, The Sham Battles at Oak Farm] Reference
He had taken it from his carpet-bag and was carrying it in its rice paper wrappings lest it should be crushed. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
The low tones at the table ceased, the books were closed, the ladies put on their extra wrappings and went home. From Wordnik.com. [Why and How : a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in Canada] Reference
The ice will yield to this much quicker than to hot water or wrappings or hot cloths, as is the common practice. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
Everyone looked uncomfortable in the fur and leather wrappings, and some of the men had loosened them to cool off. From Wordnik.com. [Deathworld] Reference
"It all sounds very mysterious," replied the old gentleman, as he gingerly prepared to take off the outside wrappings. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference
They all stood around on the sloppy floor of the clay room as she undid the moist wrappings of her half-finished head. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
The little bottle in its wrappings was immediately replaced in its niche, and Tahara ate some food which we brought her. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
Santy himself helped her to tear off the wrappings; and lo and behold! it was a great big doll with blue eyes and flaxen hair. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference
He eyed her indifferently while she undid the tissue-paper wrappings of her little parcel and displayed the hypodermic needle. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
She had thought over this whole situation while she removed the wrappings from the first manuscript of the pile upon her desk. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
I have multiplied the knots and tripled the wrappings, and I gleefully follow their impatient fingers entangled among the strings. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But the show belonged to the Argentine actress Elena Roger, who glowed with heat and power under the wrappings of her paisley shawl. From Wordnik.com. [A Promising London Theater Season] Reference
He walked very slowly to a sofa in the corner, and removed his outer wrappings, piece by piece, flinging them down on floor or furniture. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
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