grave-clothes

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One is passed over the head and shoulders, the other receives the lower extremities, when the two are brought together and fastened, his grave-clothes generally being some of his common wearing apparel.

From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by Springer, John S.

"He is watching me again," she panted: "he stands there in his grave-clothes!"

From The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 2 (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry

The grave-clothes having been removed, the mouldering remains were wrapped in new blankets and carried in procession, attended by the crowd, to a place where they were deposited on a carpet of leaves.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, Sir

There could be no mistaking it—it was that of Aunt Joanna, clothed in the tattered sheet that Elizabeth Hockin had allowed for her grave-clothes.

From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

And when He died, others must provide the grave-clothes and the tomb, for He had none of His own.

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various