grave-clothes

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Better even than the workmen, admirers of Mr. Kalish liked his Christ, a taut figure in grave clothes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Moore never drew on the spot, because "that would have been the essence of rudeness," but he remembered London's buried heroism well, in drawings of catacombish tunnels filled with mummies swaddled in grave clothes.

From Time Magazine Archive

He remembered wondering what it would have been like to witness Jesus roll the stone away from Lazarus’s tomb and watch the dead man walk out, still wearing his grave clothes.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley

And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot in his grave clothes, and with his head tied up in a cloth.

From Young Folks' Bible in Words of Easy Reading The Sweet Stories of God's Word in the Language of Childhood by Pollard, Josephine

Whilst Hunter--hovering ghoulishly over the corpse--arranged the grave clothes and the frilling, Crass laid the broken cover on the top of the other coffin and pushed it under the bed out of the way.

From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Tressell, Robert