cerecloth

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The skeleton was found still wrapped in a cerecloth, and in the record of the church is a memorandum of payment "for a terpauling to wrap Mr. Mitchell."

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Madam Gillin answered it in person, bedizened in a weird wrapper, a wisp of soiled crape wound over the curl-papers about her head and under her chin like a cerecloth.

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I shut the drawer again hurriedly, and that doll in its silver paper cerecloth haunted me all night.

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The curse of witchcraft was upon the house, hatred and death clung around it like cerecloths to a coffin.

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A year again, and on Inchkeith Isle I saw thee pass in the breeze, With the cerecloth risen above thy feet And wound about thy knees.

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