cerecloth

Example Sentences

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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

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.

From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various

The sensation stirred by that faintest of odors had been agreeable; there was nothing suggestive of grave-mold or cerecloth about it.

From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Nicholson, Meredith

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

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