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swaddling clothes

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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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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.
A very young brother of his, who was in swaddling clothes, was still alive and crying abandoned in his cradle.
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?
 
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