• Despite its graceful, moss-swathed decay, the gate is undeniably imposing, its four giant bodhisattva faces staring beatifically out.

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  • They are lit by eternal flames, swathed in teddy bears or drizzled with flowers.

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  • These leopard-skin-swathed warriors were allowed to join its troops on a triumphal rampage through Bunia on March 6th.

    ECONOMIST: Congo's wars

  • She returned to the field to play on, her head swathed in bandages.

    CNN: Olympics Day 12: Golden day for the U.S.

  • For comic relief, the family's boozy granny (Susan Sarandon) arrives, swathed in mink.

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  • By two-and-a-half minutes, the entire background is swathed in green and yellow, red and white--it's like a Venn diagram on steroids.

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  • On its front was the organization's seal--a toga-swathed figure holding a torch in one hand and a coin in the other.

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  • That goes for towers in Glasgow, now swathed in multicoloured insulating overcladding.

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  • Take the wordless subway ride, early in the movie, that finds Brandon, impeccably swathed in coat and scarf, sitting diagonally opposite a young woman.

    NEWYORKER: Hot and Bothered

  • The drive from K.L., which takes only about an hour, winds along beautiful verdant valleys as you make your way up to the green-swathed former hill station.

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  • The sister had fallen forward, so there was no face to be seen, just her great flowery swathed knees and dark hair with its elaborate and outdated coiffure.

    NEWYORKER: Free Radicals

  • Guests sat in white-seated rows under a gleaming chandelier while women swathed in pink and green paraded down a runway set in front of a gold pipe organ.

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  • In this week's test, examiners set ablaze five boxes containing about 250 oxygen canisters swathed in bubble wrapper to determine how long it would take the fire to spread.

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  • In fact, they meet shoppers returning, the forlorn expressions of the women swathed from head to toe in cheap veils evident, on occasion with only their eyes and hands showing.

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  • Rosie the organic range chicken enjoyed the good life before ending up beheaded, plucked, swathed in plastic and artfully arranged on a bed of ice at the Whole Foods Market inGlendale, California.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • For many in the West, the Tuareg are irresistibly romantic - mysterious men of the dunes and the camel-trains, their heads swathed in traditional blue turbans and the less traditional designer sunglasses.

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  • They star in the opening credits of the recent rendition of Miami Vice, and Perez, still slender at 57 and swathed in layers of white linen, could play a role in the film.

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  • GARCIA-NAVARRO: Dressed in a dark blue suit on a stage swathed in red velvet and Mexican flags, Lopez-Obrador was presented with a presidential sash and took an oath of office where he promised to act in the national best interest.

    NPR: Mexico's Obrador Vows to Continue Fighting for the Presidency

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