wrappages

It seems, somehow, the very central essence of us, Song; as if all the rest were wrappages and hulls! the primal element of us; of us, and all things.

Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration Margaret Bird Steinmetz

We must summon forth the spirit of the man from within the wrappages of material and accident.

The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life Carleton Eldredge Noyes 1911

As many thanks for that precious card-box and jewel of a flower-holder as are consistent with my dismay at finding you only return them ... and not the costly brown paper wrappages also ... to say nothing of the inestimable pins with which my sister uses to fasten the same!

The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898

Dressed like no one else; veils, multiplex wrappages and appendages, all as if thrown on by a pitchfork; spoke like no one else, in a wild low chaunt or/lilt/

New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

A fine ride, just the same, over fine roads, and past fine farmsteads snuggled into their rectangular wrappages of trees set out in the old pioneer days.

The Brown Mouse Herbert Quick 1893

Across several unsuitable wrappages, of Church-of-Englandism and others, my heart loves the man.

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883

Slumberous Europe, rotting amid its blind pedantries, its lazy hypocrisies, conscious and unconscious: this man is capable of shaking it a little out of its stupid refuges of lies and ignominious wrappages, and of intimating to it afar off that there is still a

Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle John Morley 1880

Think, when the cold pierces even through all your wrappages of comfort, and scarcity almost pinches, what forms of humanity, with lungs, and nerves, and hearts, and every capacity for suffering, are scraping the moss of subsistence from the barest rocks of life, and struggling every day through an avalanche!

Humanity in the City 1847

And now does the Spiritual, eternal Essence of Man, and of Mankind, bared of such wrappages, begin in any measure to reveal itself?

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

Prophet or Poet to teach us, namely, the stripping-off of those poor undevout wrappages, nomenclatures and scientific hearsays, --- this, the ancient earnest soul, as yet unencumbered with these things, did for itself.

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838