Do I sound so optimistic that I'm not always conscious of the short step between swaddling-bands and cerements?

"Were it not for a mother's desire I would have stripped me of the swaddling-clothes and escaped back to space.

"He is an adorable child, just out of swaddling-clothes!

It convinces me that Earth is still in her swaddling-clothes, and stretches forth baby fingers on every side.

I would rather be able to say I knew it in its swaddling-clothes, than in maturer age.

Tyuit maban, ny thyf y gadachan "An infant grows, his swaddling-clothes grow not"

But England had cast off her swaddling-clothes, and was a nursery of strong, thinking men, who would bow to no authority save that which their reason and conscience approved.

For Marat too had a brother, and natural affections; and was wrapt once in swaddling-clothes, and slept safe in a cradle like the rest of us.

His name was Ottocar; and in swaddling-clothes Far better he than bearded Winceslaus His son, who feeds in luxury and ease.

When Ops realised that she was pregnant again, she had the baby secretly moved to Crete, giving a stone wrapped in swaddling-clothes to Saturn for him to eat.

The King of Kings when He was born, Had not so much for outward ease; By Him such dressings were not worn, Nor such like swaddling-clothes as these.

Kierkegaard explores how a contemporary of Christ and succeeding generations receive the "condition" necessary to understand the Paradox that God has permitted himself to be born and wrapped in swaddling-clothes.

And when Zeus was born Gaia took the child into her care, and in place of Zeus, Rhea gave Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling-clothes, which he swallowed.

And Lizaveta Petrovna held out to Levin on one hand (the other merely propping the unsteady head with its fingers) this strange, wobbly, red being whose head was hidden behind the edge of the swaddling-clothes.

Ariane had looked at the two of them, mother and child, and she had done so: had sworn to take the baby from that room by the back stairway, wrapped in those swaddling-clothes, hidden within her own cloak, and to bear it from Miraval into the wildness of that night storm.

Without any instructions, they were standoffish to the Prussian officers and cautious to keep them away from the eggs, which were left in their swaddling-clothes and kept at the heart of their camp under a now-tripled volunteer guard, posted by Ferris, whenever Temeraire was engaged in maneuvers or exercise.

They spent their first months, sometimes a year, bound tightly in swaddling bands.

Swaddling bands were often used to further restrict the infant.

You'd have no shortage of linen for making swaddling bands and dresses.

Prada then stepped in with a range of designer swaddling bands.

I was fighting Saxons while you were wetting your swaddling bands!

Take off the swaddling bands, please.

"I'm not an infant in swaddling bands!"

With her weak blood and wheysour milk she had fed him and hid from sight of others his swaddling bands.

White as grubs in our swaddling bands, we will be dispatched to join those infant souls whose eternal whining Aeneas mistook for weeping.

He's shown bound in swaddling bands of cloth that look more like a death shroud from which he will ultimately be resurrected to bring light to the world.

You should have asked Fiona to wrap you up nice and tight in swaddling bands and put you in a deep, wooden-sided manger filled with straw.

Margaret had given Egidia to the wet nurse and was rocking Mattie's little Richard, trying to quiet his fretful wails, gently loosening his swaddling bands.

The Aillard and Elhalyn lines were almost extinct, and Dyan Ardais was dead, his son still in swaddling bands.

Thrilled to have escaped his swaddling bands, Jemmy churned his legs like a windmill, causing a noxious yellowish substance to ooze from the baggy legs of his diaper.

Noted for its appearance in baby clothes in the 18th and early 19th century, particularly in caps, the shoulder seams of shirts, bibs and detachable sleeves worn over babies swaddling bands.

The baby, with his downy hair, his tiny fringed eyelids, the fragments of caui still clinging behind his ears, the pale blue swaddling bands which had imprisoned his little fists as he lay in her arms, staring up at her with so much love and trust.

"If you are going to prophesy, Morgaine," teased Elaine, "you should tell us something sensible, like, when will the men be home so we may have the wine warmed, or whether Meleas is making swaddling bands for a girl or a boy, or when the Queen will get pregnant!"

These strips are wound around the body, so that they cross over the breast, the waist and the legs, thus symbolising not only the cross, but also the swaddling bands in which Jesus was wrapped as a baby, since the death of the body is considered to be a birth for the soul into new life.