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
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V. Alas, alas, the children! they are seeking Death in life, as best to have: They are binding up their hearts away from breaking, With a cerement from the grave.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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
For when ye break the cloven earth With your young laughter and endearment, No blossomy carillon 'tis of mirth To me; I see my slaughtered joy Bursting its cerement.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
Vocabulary lists containing cerement
"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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Selection Vocabulary 3, Unit 4
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Selection Vocabulary 1, Unit 4
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