cerecloth

Example Sentences

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Within this was a wooden coffin, much decayed, and the body carefully wrapped in cerecloth, into the folds of which an unctuous matter mixed with resin had been melted, to exclude the external air.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 558, July 21, 1832 by Various

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 Masson, David

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

From Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse by Various

It were too gross To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.”—

From Adventures Among Books by Lang, Andrew

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.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis