cerecloth

Example Sentences

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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

Madam Gillin answered it in person, bedizened in a weird wrapper, a wisp of soiled crape wound over the curl-papers about her head and under her chin like a cerecloth.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

There was an odour of cerecloth in the tapestry, the yellow hue of immortelles in the �pergnes, a sediment of bitterness in the wine-cup, a strain of melancholy in the music.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus

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

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