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

There was another darkness about her, thicker than the mere night, like a black cerement dropping over her soul.

From Wild Oranges by Hergesheimer, Joseph

Now is the grass all withered up and dead,     And shrouded in its cerement of the snow; Now the enfeebled Sun goes soon to bed,     And rises late and carries his head low.

From Sonnets and Other Verse by MacKeracher, W. M.

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