The coverings here mentioned were swathings for the legs and thighs, used mostly in cases of sickness or infirmity, and when otherwise worn, reckoned effeminate.
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.
It was evidently stowed away in the swathings of the mummy by my father, who forgot all about it when he gave me the original.
But when I made an examination this morning in the presence of Hope and Don Pedro, I found that the swathings of the body had been ripped up, and that the emeralds mentioned in that manuscript had been stolen.
He examined the portions where the swathings had been cut with some sharp instrument, to reveal the dry, bony hands, which formerly had held the costly jewels.
He whispered to his master that Sidney had opened the packing case and the mummy coffin, and had ripped the swathings to get the jewels.
Meanwhile Professor Braddock had passed a very pleasant hour in examining the swathings of the mummy.
Also, as Hope reflected, even did he manage to open this receptacle of the dead, he still could not ascertain if the emeralds were safe, since they would be hidden under innumerable swathings of green-dyed llama wool.
But the swathings had been cut; the hands protruded and the emeralds were gone--torn rudely from the hard grip of the dead.
And before Tim Kelly could set down the bottle, the little figure in flying swathings had dashed itself again and again upon him, biting and gnashing on him like a wolf's cub.
Here would be a man whose hand had been smashed, and from beyond the rude swathings of cotton his fingers protruded stiffly and were so congested and swollen they looked like fat red plantains.
That part of his face which showed through the swathings about his head was terribly swollen and purple with congested blood.
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.
I saw the look of the prince change as he marked the many swathings that told of Owen's sore hurts.
They were naked, save for swathings of scarlet cloth about the middle; and their skins were of a dull pinkish-drab colour, such as I had seen in no savages before.
The Swine folk followed, squealing with excitement, and the two Bull-men in their swathings of white.
When they find the leg and the swathings they bury them.
Sparks and flashes of white flame darted from the ring, penetrating the radiant swathings of the Dweller, striking through its pulsing nucleus, piercing its seven crowning orbs.
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