grave-clothes
Example Sentences
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Suppose he should open the door, and find poor Helen standing there in her grave-clothes!
From The Mystery of the Locks by Edgar Watson Howe
All nature seemed to be throwing off its grave-clothes.
From The Man Who Rose Again by Joseph Hocking
Peter now comes up; he enters the the tomb, and sees the grave-clothes lying, and the napkin that was about his head not lying with the rest, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
From An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by Simon Greenleaf
And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-clothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin.
From Walks and Words of Jesus A Paragraph Harmony of the Four Evangelists by M. N. Olmsted
The same circumstances showed also that the body had not been removed by friends; for they would not thus have left the grave-clothes behind.
From An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by Simon Greenleaf
