| 1. | Nevertheless, this had forced him to swathe his hand in a linen bandage, and to carry his arm in a sling, and had prevented his signing. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 2. | Or like some old crone rocking the cradle, swathed in swee. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | Out of the black cave of time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose the image of his sin. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 4. | D'Arcy came from the pantry, fully swathed and buttoned, and in a repentant tone told them the history of his cold. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 5. | Standing in the window we saw that his left hand was swathed in a bandage and that his face was very grim and pale. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 6. | And he bent his long legs, swathed in tight riding breeches, and sat down in the chair, too low for him, so that his knees were cramped up in a sharp angle. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 7. | Blazes Boylan handed her the bottle swathed in pink tissue paper and a small jar. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 8. | A straggling orange-grove was here, broken lines of vanquished cultivation, struggling little trees swathed and choked in the festooning gray moss, still showing here and there the valiant golden gleam of fruit. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 9. | --If I did not myself sigh before them, and chatter with cold, and patiently LET myself be swathed in their pit. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 10. | Rochester's visits here are rare, they are always sudden and unexpected and as I observed that it put him out to find everything swathed up, and to have a bustle of arrangement on his arrival, I thought it best to keep the rooms in readiness.. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |