grave-clothes
Example Sentences
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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 Fullerton, Georgiana
The colours most approved for the grave-clothes are white and green.
From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous
They are, indeed; and, if I go down to the grave-yard at midnight and play, all the dead and gone Temples will rise out of their graves and dance around in their grave-clothes.
From Throckmorton by Seawell, Molly Elliot
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
They are bound hand and foot as with grave-clothes.
From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by McCook, Henry Christopher
