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sheaths

n. (plural of sheath English)

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They wore a bewildering variety of strange clothing: shifts stamped with colored patterns, feathers adorning their hair, sheaths studded with beads and colored stones bound around forearms and calves.

His hands, thin and strong within their leather sheaths, began to shake with anger.

She watched him transfer sheaths, and realized that he had lost a knife last night.

He was just returning the knives to their sheaths when the thick rug came up at him, seeking to envelop his face.

She had finally gotten used to his clothing, the beaded loincloth, the decorated arm and leg sheaths, and the topknot made of his black hair, ornamented by feathers.

In that gleam, the shells and beads decorating their cloaks and arm sheaths took on new colors, roots of scarlet and viridian that shuddered deep within.

Then his face hardened, he rammed his daggers into their twin sheaths, and his sword rang free of its scabbard.

Paks noted the spare knives in sheaths on both hips, and helmets that came low over the nose.

Weapons slid back into their sheaths, bows were lowered, arrows returned to their quivers.