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 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

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

From Adventures Among Books by Lang, Andrew

The mode spreads—then rushes into rage: to breathe is to be obsolete: to wear the shroud becomes comme il faut, this cerecloth acquiring all the attractiveness and éclat of a wedding-garment.

From Prince Zaleski by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)

I cut out of this cerecloth a small square the size of the Bee's thorax; and I insert the magnetised point through a few threads of the material.

From The Mason-Bees by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander