grave-clothes

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The raising of Lazarus, who appears at a door in his grave-clothes, while Christ with a wand stands before it.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

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

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

I looked intently, and it seemed to me that what I saw was a corpse, tightly swathed in grave-clothes.

From The Treasure of the Tigris A Tale of Mesopotamia by Ferryman, A. F. Mockler