unswathe
Americanverb (used with object)
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I have permission to unswathe it and open it, if desirable.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 by Edgar Allan Poe
Living beings were about to appear, pillagers of tombs, no doubt, come to unswathe them all!
From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by William Peter Baines
"Oh, you mustn't go without seeing Baby!" insisted the young mother, beginning to unswathe the shapeless bundle on the bed.
From Stories of the Foot-hills by Margaret Collier Graham
Father, you are not going to unswathe her!
From The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker
Unswaddle, un-swod′l, v.t. to remove swaddling-bands from, to unswathe.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
The two brothers bore Jonathan into the little house, unswathed his cold limbs, and laid him in the bridal bed until his coffin should be ready for him.
From Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania by Percy Favor Bicknell
When the moon was obscured by the rush of a cloud, One! thunder'd the bell, and unswathed by a shroud, Down went the gaunt skeleton crashing!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
So they unswathed him from the piece of stuff, and saw the grisly wound upon his body.
From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Eugene Mason
With equal speed, and quite as far, can the unswathed inner perceptives of an entranced or illumined mortal be attracted.
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam
Spinoza himself describes his own philosophy as in substance the same with that of the ancient Hebrew Doctors, the Cabalists—only unswathed from the Biblical dress.
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When he turned round Malcolm had placed the little figure in an arm-chair by the fire, and was busy unswathing the voluminous folds of the plaid in which it had been wrapped.
From A Noble Life by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
A man who had been present at the unswathing of this princess, dead at least three thousand years, had managed to secure it, and Owen had paid him a large sum for it.
From Evelyn Innes by George (George Augustus) Moore
He carried up the twins and even remained a moment to help in their unswathing before he descended to the waiting car and Phoebe.
From Andrew the Glad by Maria Thompson Daviess
Around a table the faithful are carrying on the love-feasts; martyrs are unswathing their limbs to show their wounds; old men, leaning on their staffs, are relating their travels.
From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Gustave Flaubert
And yet a few hours later, this eloquent orator is himself hard at work in digging up and unswathing another set of mummies for the annoyance of another set of dissenters.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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