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  • Not only did he not wear pants, and was barefooted and barelegged, but about his middle, just like any black, he wore a brilliant-coloured loin-cloth, that, like a kilt, fell nearly to his sunburnt knees.

    CHAPTER II 2010

  • The man-horse was greasy and dirty, and naked save for an exceedingly narrow and dirty loin-cloth; but the white man clung to him closely and desperately.

    Chapter 1 2010

  • This was a god, a tangible, real, three-dimensioned god, who went about and ruled his world in a loin-cloth and on two bare legs, and who loved him with crooning noises in throat and mouth and with two wide-spread arms that folded him in.

    CHAPTER IX 2010

  • Blackbirders though descended from old New York Knickerbocker stock, surged in, clad in loin-cloth, undershirt, two belted revolvers and a sheath - knife, he was stopped at the beach.

    A GOBOTO NIGHT 2010

  • The cheap undershirt and white loin-cloth did not serve to hide the well put up body.

    A SON OF THE SUN 2010

  • Van Horn, regarding the shore for some sign of life, lighted a cigar and put one hand to the waist-line of his loin-cloth to reassure himself of the presence of the stick of dynamite that was tucked between the loin-cloth and his skin.

    CHAPTER IX 2010

  • A few moments later and Rafik Tamwar appeared, grumbling, in a rag of loin-cloth, with his clothes over his arm, and leading a neat little pony.

    Fiancée 2010

  • Someone was, though, surely, over by the door; there was a dark figure, but it wasn't naked, for I could see a white loin-cloth, and instead of the gold headdress, there was a tight white turban.

    Fiancée 2010

  • He was a thin, hirsute human about six feet tall, wearing only a loin-cloth.

    Father Swarat Matt Dennison 2010

  • We pray to the one draped with a red colored loin-cloth.

    Archive 2009-08-01 photographerno1 2009

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