cerecloth

Example Sentences

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Baba Mustafa quickly made the cerecloth of fitting length and breadth, and Morgiana paid him the promised Ashrafi; then once more bandaging his eyes led him back to the place whence she had brought him.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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

From Adventures Among Books by Lang, Andrew

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

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

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