cerecloth

Example Sentences

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The sensation stirred by that faintest of odors had been agreeable; there was nothing suggestive of grave-mold or cerecloth about it.

From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Nicholson, Meredith

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

A year again, and on Inchkeith Isle I saw thee pass in the breeze, With the cerecloth risen above thy feet And wound about thy knees.

From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various

It dropped the cerecloth from its fleshless face And smiled on me, with a remembered grace That, like the noontide, lit the gloaming's gloom.

From Poems of Passion by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

It were too gross To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.

From The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras by Lang, Andrew