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

Also, I don't call marriage, for instance, an old cerement.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

The best I have within me declares that the fleshly wrapping becomes at the end but a cumbering cerement; that through life, it is a spirit-vault.

From She Buildeth Her House by Comfort, William Wistar

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