grave-clothes
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One thing struck me, and it was this—I had no grave-clothes upon me.
From Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 by Various
It lifted itself up slowly, and I could not see the face; but I cried out in terror "Who is it?" and the grave-clothes fell—it was Alice!
From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton
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
Hush!—was not that low rumbling in the north which men call thunder, the voice of the Giant of Mount Liberty turning suddenly in his grave-clothes to answer the appeal?
From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Henry Morford
Lo, for no noise or light of thunder Shall these grave-clothes be rent in sunder; He that hath taken, shall he give?
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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