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
They knock the stony cerement that enshrines me.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 544, April 28, 1832 by Various
V. Alas, alas, the children! they are seeking Death in life, as best to have: They are binding up their hearts away from breaking, With a cerement from the grave.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Three cold, bright moons have marched and wheeled; And the white cerement that revealed A Figure stretched upon a Shield, Is turned to verdure; and the Land is now one mighty battle-field.
From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 National Spirit by Carman, Bliss
Vocabulary lists containing cerement
"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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Selection Vocabulary 3, Unit 4
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Selection Vocabulary 1, Unit 4
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