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Example sentences for "swaddling clothes"

  • Here it was that the Blessed Virgin "brought forth her first-born Son, wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger.

  • The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in his coffin.

  • The child whose body and arms are free will certainly cry much less than a child tied up in swaddling clothes.

  • That, I fancy, is one of the chief advantages of swaddling clothes.

  • And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; became there was no room for them at the inn.

  • And for a sign of the truth of the message, they were to find the child wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger in Bethlehem.

  • And this shall be a sign unto you: Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

  • Mary brought forth her firstborn son on this present day, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and, for want of room, laid him in a bin.

  • Ye shall see this token, ye shall find the child wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid in a bin.

  • The baby was not placed in swaddling clothes in Sparta, so that it was allowed the freedom of its limbs and body.

  • They bought linen for luyers, which were neither pinning-blankets nor diapers, but a sort of swaddling clothes, which evidently were worn then by Dutch babies.

  • Swaddling clothes do not seem to have been used by the Egyptians as they were among the Jews and some other nations.

  • This he intimated in these words: "Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

  • What a wonderful sign is this to all the world, and therefore the Angel repeated it to the shepherds: "Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

  • The modern "binder" is, of course, a relic of swaddling clothes, or those which consisted of a profusion of bandages.

  • It may here be said that we meet in the word "pupa," which is the scientific term that we apply to a chrysalis, with the old Greek name for a baby in swaddling clothes.

  • And she brought forth her firstborn son; and she wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

  • And this is the sign unto you: Ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger.

  • However, a sign was given whereby the shepherds might be able to distinguish the child and to be assured that he was the Christ: “Ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger.

  • There was no end to the arrivals and departures there: the peasant women were ever galloping through the place, dragging trunks about, carrying babes in swaddling clothes, and filling the rooms and the passages with wild cries and vile odors.

  • You said that you wished that Jonas might be put back in swaddling clothes again.

  • The infant was then wrapped up in swaddling clothes, and sucking the breasts of his mother St. Mary.

  • Mary washes Christ's swaddling clothes, hangs them to dry on a post, and the son of a priest puts one on his head; 16 And being possessed of devils they leave him.

  • And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger.

  • Christ Come Again "And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger.

  • First, He was "wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid in a manger.

  • Try to call to mind something of the secret, as well as the open, bitterness of men, religious and irreligious alike, which began to hunt Him while yet in swaddling clothes, and which hunted Him still all through His days.

  • And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

  • And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

  • Nobody knows aught about her save the queen and Mistress Patience, who carried her over to France when she was almost in swaddling clothes.

  • I was brought over from England just as you were, an infant in swaddling clothes, by my dear Lady Dalkeith, so we are equal there.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swaddling clothes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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