cerement

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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?”

From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 2022

Above city hall, billowing smoke from 1,000 fires hung like a cerement.

From Time Magazine Archive

They knock the stony cerement that enshrines me.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 544, April 28, 1832 by Various

This was at once both good and bad for the little Emperor, good because it made the bursting of his cerement easy, bad because it made the drying of his wings slow.

From "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character by English, Douglas

All then shall speak of me: The tyranny of silence is not lasting, And, though events be hidden, just men's groans80 Will burst all cerement, even a living grave's!

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley