cerement

Example Sentences

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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

Three cold, bright moons have marched and wheeled;     And the white cerement that revealed     A Figure stretched upon a Shield,   Is turned to verdure; and the Land is now one mighty battle-field.

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 National Spirit by Carman, Bliss

Spiritual bodies are subject to a process of refinement and decay; and the soul, as the winged butterfly to which it is likened, throws off its cerement and assumes a new form.

From Strange Visitors by Horn, Henry J.

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