grave-clothes
Example Sentences
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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
Better even than the workmen, admirers of Mr. Kalish liked his Christ, a taut figure 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
We heard first of two men going into an empty tomb, finding two bundles of grave clothes, and departing.
From The Fair Haven by Streatfeild, R. A. (Richard Alexander)
He was cold, and his light clothing clung to him wet and chilling as grave clothes.
From The Eye of Dread by Erskine, Payne
