___ of joy (newborns)

Usage examples of bundles.

Bags of grain and bundles of hay had been compacted into every cranny in hopes of keeping the beasts fed until they reached their new pastures beyond the Western Sea.

These Alengwyneh had been told, by the words in their Sacred Bundles, that they had been created to look like their god.

Magic Bundles, as if to beseech them for some answer, some useful power for this dubious moment.

Magic Bundles often in his life, and always he had seemed to sense a power that hung about them.

The bundles inside were full of pale sheets of parchment covered with lines of small, black specks of various shapes, so densely laid in rows that they seemed to tremble when looked at closely.

The power of the bundles apparendy lay in the arrangement of those black specks, which were said to contain silent talk.

Stonecutter felt the power of the bundles, and they seemed to pull at him, to entreat him with silent voices.

He knew that in times of fire or flood, the keepers of the tribal bundles would risk their lives to keep the bundles from being lost or destroyed.

Alengwyneh being called the Keeper of the Bundles, unless it was the king himself, who seemed to be the only person who ever looked at them.

And so now Stonecutter diought a prayer to Creator, asking whether Creator had put him here at this time to save the bundles from whatever was happening.

So, his sinewy body glistening with the sweat of fear and doubt, Stonecutter began trotting down the dim, gray halls with the leather-covered bundles under his arm, glancing backward and ahead every few steps.

He realized, too, that the room of the Sacred bundles must have been destroyed, so it was no use trying to put the bundles back there.

Sacred Bundles to his chest, Stonecutter snuffed out the torch against the ceiling, then eased out to stand in the courtyard, studying the skies, the walls nearby, and the distances.

Stonecutter clung to the Sacred Bundles and led his dazed daughter limping across baileys and gardens so littered with arrows that it was like walking over the dead twigs in a woods.

Stonecutter balanced the bundles on his head and held them there with a free hand until he could climb ashore on the bank and help pull his daughter up.