winding sheet

If you use it wisely, it may be Ulysses' hauberk; if you reject it, the shirt of Nessus were a cooler winding-sheet!

Long trails of a pale tint simulated upon the water the folds of a winding-sheet.

I began to know Rome better, and cast aside the winding-sheet which had enwrapped me, as it were.

He is a fearful-looking deity, cadaverous as a skeleton, and wrapped in a winding sheet.

She sickened, and before many suns went down she lay in her winding sheet.