swathe

Here and there a swathe of mist lay on the plains below; but up on the hills all was comparatively clear.

As the distension of the belly had been very great, a swathe was applied, and drawn gradually tighter as the water was evacuated.

Like Tristan, they hate the day as the destroyer of poetry, and swathe themselves in the trembling chiaroscuro of twilight.

"He said it made the swathe better there than any where else," they reply.

Sometimes his wives caress his body, ply him with delicacies or swathe him in perfumed garments.