cerecloth

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

From The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras by Lang, Andrew

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

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