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swaddling clothes

in which Mary wraps her new-born infant. [N.T.: Luke 2:7]

See : Nativity

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No references found			And Lizaveta Petrovna, with one hand supporting the wobbling head, lifted up on the other arm the strange, limp, red creature, whose head was lost in its swaddling clothes. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context A very young brother of his, who was in swaddling clothes, was still alive and crying abandoned in his cradle. Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context For what greater nonsense can there be in connection with what we are now discussing than for an infant to appear in swaddling clothes in the first scene of the first act, and in the second a grown-up bearded man? Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context			Svishtov Svisloch Svistok Svit Svita Svitrigaila Svoboda, Ludvik Svoboda, Ludvík Svobodnyi Svobody Svoezemtsy Svolvaer Svoz SVR4 SVRC SVS Svyatoslav I SW swab Swabbing Swabia Swabian Jura Swabian League Swabian League of 1376 Swabian War of 1499 swaddling clothes Swadesh, Morris Swadeshi Movement swag swage swage block swage bolt swage pile Swaging Swahili Swahili language Swain County Swains Island Swakopmund swale swallow swallow buoy swallow dive Swallow Falls State Park swallow float swallow hole swallow tail Swallowing Swallows of San Juan Capistrano Swallowtail swallowtail butterfly			SWACE SWACI SWACJ swacked SWACM SWACO SWACS SWACT SWACUHO SWACURH swad swad SWADA Swadaya SWADD swaddle swaddle swaddle Swaddlebill swaddled swaddled Swaddler swaddles swaddles swaddling swaddling swaddling swaddling Swaddling band swaddling bands swaddling clothes swaddy SWADE Swadesh, Morris Swadesh, Morris Swadeshi Swadeshi Swadeshi Swadeshi Jagran Manch Swadeshi movement Swadeshi movement Swadeshi movement Swadlincote SWADS SWAE SWAEBR SWAET SWAF SWAFC SWAFDE swaff Swaffer, Hannen Swaffham Swaffham, Norfolk SWAFK SWAFS SWAFW swag swag swag swag

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