Babies tossed restlessly, their brown bodies swathed in robes and bathed in sweat, mothers holding them, glancing back at Adam and mumbling frantic Hindu prayers under their breaths.
She looked exactly as she had when they had laid her to rest; every auburn hair in place in a neat and modest French Braid, her body swathed from chin to toe in an exquisite lace gown.
Of these first two, one wore the body of a young, well-dressed Trojan woman, the other that of a crone, with much of her head and face swathed in bandages.
He did not see the slender form, swathed completely in a black robe, bend over the body beside the altar, the body of the young woman, Martine.
Beside her, on the edge of the stone platform that was the dragon's couch, Leri sat on a heap of pillows, her body swathed in thick woven rugs.
In bed with her hair loose, with her body swathed in a coverlet and linens, I had expected to hear a voice to match the impression of weakness.
An old woman sat on a wooden crate, head veiled, withered body swathed in black.
It is a simple piece of magick involving a silver tray which floats in the air while a girl, no taller than a man's forearm, dances upon it, her body swathed in shimmering veils of silk.
In the intensive care unit of the children's clinic at Kosevo Hospital, Selma Sisic lies immobile, eyes closed, her severely burned body swathed in bandages.
The bald head, the arrogant gaze, the fit body tightly swathed in black.