But, in any of the societies to which we used to look back for examples--Greek, Roman, Jewish, Christian-European--parental responsibilities over teenage children were a good deal more extensive than Locke's metaphor of
swaddling clothes would admit, and a grown child's duty to revere his parents and respect their wishes was taken for granted.
According to tradition, Mary was without
swaddling clothes for her son so Joseph offered to take off some of his.
You know that one: the babe of low estate, born in a manger, wrapped in
swaddling clothes, and, let's be honest, he didn't dress much better when he got older.
These techniques often include special
swaddling clothes and bands, or several cloths positioned in a particular way to keep the baby secure.
The month and year I was born, Dance Magazine was called simply The Dance, and, like myself, was very much in its
swaddling clothes.
goes within, sheltered in the
swaddling clothes of timeless repose.
Prince Hisahito, wrapped in white
swaddling clothes, was presented to the shrine in the arms of a male agency official.
What exactly would a person think when an angel, bearing a child in
swaddling clothes, rings the doorbell and announces, as angels are wont to do in that startling way of theirs, "Behold the child of your great, great, great, great grandmother, who died in 1627.
They wrapped the child in
swaddling clothes, For the night was cold and raw And lay him down so gently There upon the straw.
More widely known is the Dresden Stollen, traditional Christmas oblong bread with ridges down the middle -- signifying the Christmas infant in
swaddling clothes.
With no crib to lay her new-born child, Mary (Alison Craig) wraps him in
swaddling clothes and places the tiny infant in a manger, complete with cosy blanket.
A note inside the
swaddling clothes offers 200 yuan ($25) a month to anyone prepared to care for the sprig.
New born babies, for example, are not covered in
swaddling clothes, but in mucous, blood, and often defecate, and despite all the best intentions of our doctors and nurses, some children die.
But Rhea, his wife, saved the infant Zeus by substituting a stone wrapped in
swaddling clothes for Cronus to swallow and hiding Zeus in a cave on Crete.
