cerecloth

Example Sentences

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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 Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

It dropped the cerecloth from its fleshless face And smiled on me, with a remembered grace That, like the noontide, lit the gloaming's gloom.

From Poems of Passion by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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 Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop

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 Joyce, James

His sister brought the cerecloth that she took in the Waste Chapel, and presented there where the Graal was.

From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian