cerecloth
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Sharp are thine eyes to see a sword through all this wrappage of cerecloth; surely they be of the warrior kin.
From The Sundering Flood by May Morris
The skeleton was found still wrapped in a cerecloth, and in the record of the church is a memorandum of payment "for a terpauling to wrap Mr. Mitchell."
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle
When, by farther removal of the cerecloth, they had disengaged the entire head, they found it to be loose from the body.
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson
I cut out of this cerecloth a small square the size of the Bee's thorax; and I insert the magnetised point through a few threads of the material.
From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
His sister brought the cerecloth that she took in the Waste Chapel, and presented there where the Graal was.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans
When they took off my cerecloths and sent me back to Wellingsford, Betty was the first to smile her dear welcome.
From The Red Planet by William John Locke
And the faint ghosts in cerecloths, and the horrible shapes of the mist....
From The Wind Bloweth by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
By it he placed his lamp, and then squatting down beside it in Eastern fashion he began with long quivering fingers to undo the cerecloths and bandages which girt it round.
From The Captain of the Polestar by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I have not robbed the dead of their loaves and cerecloths.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
“Not if it were wrought of the cerecloths of the damned!”
From The Lady of the Shroud by Bram Stoker
