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“Had not the singer of Wimpole Street said that they were binding up their hearts away from breaking with a cerement of the grave?”

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The figure stopped, and at the moment a ray of moonlight fell upon the masses of driving clouds and showed in startling prominence a dark-haired woman, dressed in the cerements of the grave.

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They had probably been attracted by the smell of the mummies and their cerements, that lay strewn about the tent.

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Inevitably, they found themselves underground with a crumbling object in “gaudy cerements.”

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The May 13 commencement cerement will be held at 7 p.m. at Arizona Stadium.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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