cerecloth
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The best is a sort of cerecloth which he prepares specially with a very fine material.
From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
When, by farther removal of the cerecloth, they had disengaged the entire head, they found it to be loose from the body.
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson
Sharp are thine eyes to see a sword through all this wrappage of cerecloth; surely they be of the warrior kin.
From The Sundering Flood by May Morris
And his grave shall be 'Neath the chestnut tree, Where he met my sister many years ago; Leave that tress of hair On his bosom there— Wrap the cerecloth round him!
From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
He speaks the words to Burbage, the young player who stands before him beyond the rack of cerecloth, calling him by a name: Hamlet, I am thy father's spirit, bidding him list.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
“Not if it were wrought of the cerecloths of the damned!”
From The Lady of the Shroud by Bram Stoker
I have not robbed the dead of their loaves and cerecloths.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Break thou the covering cerecloths; rise up from the dead.
From Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne
And the faint ghosts in cerecloths, and the horrible shapes of the mist....
From The Wind Bloweth by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
When they took off my cerecloths and sent me back to Wellingsford, Betty was the first to smile her dear welcome.
From The Red Planet by William John Locke
