Word: shawled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bryant records Sibley's labors. His first volume, a record of "strange experience in childhood, brave struggles to obtain an education, of virtue and heroism under temptations of wealth and worldly honor," appeared in 1873, his second in 1881. Ailing and past 70, he draped himself in a shawl, wore three pairs of spectacles at once to help his dimming eyesight, and continued burrowing through the archives of the Massachusetts Historical Society. In 1885 he published a third volume, completing the biographies through the class of 1689. He died the same year, but Librarian Sibley was too dedicated...
Later, concertmaster Alfred Krips with a '33 banner as a shawl and a boater on his head, did an impromptu Charleston while playing with the orchestra, Hay-man's "Dancing Through the Years...
...eyes opened wide and glowed green, and her mouth spread and uttered a sound--not a word, but a guttural hissing--and he saw that she had not teeth. The glistening lips came to meet his and attached themselves to him wih a suction stronger than death, and her shawl dropped, revealing no arms, but a long, coiled, viscous body, the tubular shape of a tapeworm, eagerly welcoming him into its embrace...
...teacher produced a pair of long leather thongs. "These are tefillin, or phylacteries," she said. "They are wrapped around the left arm and the forehead during prayer. And this is a tallith, a prayer shawl...
...slab (opposite) a formalized, warriorlike Assur-nasir-pal II grasps his bow in his left hand as he balances a chalice on the fingers of his right hand. Behind him stands a personal attendant dressed in knee-length tunic, broad waistband, fringed mantle to the ankles, shawl flaring over the left shoulder. In another slab, the figures performing the priestly task of lustrating the sacred tree have the heads of strong-beaked birds of prey. The stylized, forthright carvings testify to the power and skill of an ancient...