cerecloth

Example Sentences

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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

And his grave shall be 'Neath the chestnut tree, Where he met my sister many years ago; Leave that tress of hair On his bosom there— Wrap the cerecloth round him!

From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop

His sister brought the cerecloth that she took in the Waste Chapel, and presented there where the Graal was.

From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian

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

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