swaddling-bands

So well did Louise loosen the swaddling-bands of provincial life that confined the heart and brain of her poet that the said poet determined to try an experiment upon her.

Two Poets 2007

The helplessness of the French infant in its swaddling-bands means the liberty of the nurse — that is the whole explanation.

Letters of Two Brides 2007

So well did Louise loosen the swaddling-bands of provincial life that confined the heart and brain of her poet that the said poet determined to try an experiment upon her.

Two Poets 2007

Together they leaned forward to look out upon a majestic cloud country, full of snows and glaciers and fantastic mountain peaks with gray stains of shadow on their sides, a picture composed of sharp contrasts between fiery red and the shadows of darkness, filling the skies with a fleeting vision of glory which cannot be reproduced — magnificent swaddling-bands of sunrise, bright shrouds of the dying sun.

A Woman of Thirty 2007

Him that was born; the glad tidings announced to the shepherds; the fear of Herod lest his kingdom should be taken from him; the command to slay the infants; the removal into Egypt, and the return from that country to the same region; the infant swaddling-bands; the human registration; the nourishing by means of milk; the name of father given to Him who did not beget; the manger because there was not room

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

Thou didst revert to thy state of [wilful] ignorance, because all the circumstances seemed to thee trifling; [1335] for thou didst deem the swaddling-bands, the circumcision, and the nourishment by means of milk contemptible: [1336] these things appeared to thee unworthy of God.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

She is sewing and knitting coverlets, cloths, and swaddling-bands.

The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954

I think perhaps that they represented the child Moses floating on the Nile, and that the swaddling-bands perhaps symbolized the tightly binding character of the

The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954

Mary had only four sets of swaddling-bands with her.

The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954

A figure was embroidered on it in pale colors; it looked like a dead man in a long white cloak, wrapped up like a child in swaddling-bands.

The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954