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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
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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
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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
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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
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The cheap undershirt and white loin-cloth did not serve to hide the well put up body.
A SON OF THE SUN 2010
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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
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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
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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
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He was a thin, hirsute human about six feet tall, wearing only a loin-cloth.
Father Swarat Matt Dennison 2010
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We pray to the one draped with a red colored loin-cloth.
Archive 2009-08-01 photographerno1 2009
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