grave-clothes

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Better even than the workmen, admirers of Mr. Kalish liked his Christ, a taut figure in grave clothes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Moore never drew on the spot, because "that would have been the essence of rudeness," but he remembered London's buried heroism well, in drawings of catacombish tunnels filled with mummies swaddled in grave clothes.

From Time Magazine Archive

He remembered wondering what it would have been like to witness Jesus roll the stone away from Lazarus’s tomb and watch the dead man walk out, still wearing his grave clothes.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley

Darting in at the open door, Telling of joys that come no more; Robed in grave clothes fine and thin— Shades of phantoms, ever dim.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Not the dead Buddha, nor the departed Zoroaster, nor the vanished Pythagoras ever came back through the opened door of the sepulcher, wearing the grave clothes of those who sleep.

From An Easter Disciple The Chronicle of Quintus, the Roman Knight by Sanford, Arthur Benton