grave-clothes
Example Sentences
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The iron grave-clothes, as was foretold, are slowly wrapping me," she said, "to stifle my breath and crush my bones.
From The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis
And what if we bandage a nobler inner faculty, and wrap love in grave-clothes?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various
Have I not built thee a grave, and wrought Thy grave-clothes on thee of grievous thought, With soft spun verses and tears unshed, And sweet light visions of things undone?
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
They run; John outruns Peter, comes first to the tomb, and stooping down, sees the grave-clothes lying, but he does not enter.
From An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by Greenleaf, Simon
She looks despairingly at the empty grave-clothes which so lately had held all that was dear to her in the world.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Dods, Marcus
