cerecloth

Example Sentences

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I shut the drawer again hurriedly, and that doll in its silver paper cerecloth haunted me all night.

From Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse by Various

The mode spreads—then rushes into rage: to breathe is to be obsolete: to wear the shroud becomes comme il faut, this cerecloth acquiring all the attractiveness and éclat of a wedding-garment.

From Prince Zaleski by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)

There was an odour of cerecloth in the tapestry, the yellow hue of immortelles in the �pergnes, a sediment of bitterness in the wine-cup, a strain of melancholy in the music.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus

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 Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

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 Evans, Sebastian