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the train took her mind back to that morning in 1862 when she had come to Atlanta as a young widow, swathed in crepe and wild with boredom.

Another swathed himself in a raincoat and duct tape before fleeing the area a few hours later.

We were curled up on my small bed, intertwined as much as it was possible, considering the thick afghan I was swathed in like a cocoon.

The fondly mother swathed the infant, sent it to the puerpera and , while covering her with a blanket, said to her.

Then the Filipina arrived, swathed in a black fishnet robe, an attendant padding behind her with a pile of towels.

In the course of my work, I once heard this little joke: A woman swathed in furs was pushing her teen-age son in a wheelchair.

English bureaucracy seems to have swathed in red tape at its birth.

Out of the black cave of time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose the image of his sin.

Yet in its youth it was, like its gentler sister Earth, swathed in oceans that provided a suitable breeding ground for life.

He came out of hospital with his leg still swathed in bandages.

The minimalist interiors are utterly dreamy, swathed in sheer curtains and a white palette (including those polished white floors swoon).

She kept herself swathed in heavy robes to prevent others from gleaning insights from her movements.

Firefighters swathed in radioactive-protection gear rushed in to refuel the trucks, exposing themselves to a highly radioactive environment.

The company's media events are heavily anticipated and product releases are swathed in rumor.

Perched on a tasseled divan, swathed in silks, her face demurely veiled, this elegant Constantinople lady just might not be a lady.

More theatrical were groups of black-swathed protesters wearing white death masks who silently threaded their way through the city.

Satellite imagery shows the UK swathed entirely in snow, looking like a baby Greenland.

I awakened to find both legs swathed in casts, the left one in traction to aid the healing of a broken hip and pelvis.

Swathed in gold from head to foot, including her eyelids and fingernails, she's a gilded peacock, regal and perfectly controlled.

It is hard to swim, she said, if your body is swathed in cotton, which is very heavy when wet.

Each spray orifice is provided with a single way valve which is swathed with a belt and cooperates with the spray orifice.

Very few places in the world match the hospitality and natural charm in which Rio is perpetually swathed .

A shroud of perpetual darkness kept the planet swathed in dull greys and deep blacks.

New York is already swathed in Olympic logos and signs promoting its bid.

She sat in the sofa, swathed in a blanket.

His anger was swathed in silence.

He doesn't like to arrive and find everything all swathed up,