cerecloth

Example Sentences

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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 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

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

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

From Adventures Among Books by Lang, Andrew

Sharp are thine eyes to see a sword through all this wrappage of cerecloth; surely they be of the warrior kin.

From The Sundering Flood by Morris, May