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

They were moving slowly; they were carrying something into the house—something in a white covering that hung heavily as a cerement in the heavy air.

From At Large by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

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

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 Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century by Joy, James Richard