cerement

Example Sentences

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“Had not the singer of Wimpole Street said that they were binding up their hearts away from breaking with a cerement of the grave?”

From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 2022

Above city hall, billowing smoke from 1,000 fires hung like a cerement.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the corpse, covered by a long cerement, was tenderly lifted up by six of the nearest kinfolk and borne towards the dark thing I have described.

From The Coming Race by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

They are seeking Death in life, as best to have; They are binding up their hearts away from breaking With a cerement from the grave.

From Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century by Joy, James Richard

For when ye break the cloven earth With your young laughter and endearment, No blossomy carillon 'tis of mirth To me; I see my slaughtered joy Bursting its cerement.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert