grave-clothes
Example Sentences
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Some of the women clutched each other with frightened shrieks; even strong men fell back, as out of the dark grave walked a tall figure wrapped in white grave-clothes.
From Joel: A Boy of Galilee by Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)
Peter now comes up; he enters the the tomb, and sees the grave-clothes lying, and the napkin that was about his head not lying with the rest, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
From An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by Greenleaf, Simon
They are bound hand and foot as with grave-clothes.
From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by McCook, Henry Christopher
The same circumstances showed also that the body had not been removed by friends; for they would not thus have left the grave-clothes behind.
From An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by Greenleaf, Simon
His rising would be as the awaking of a man from deep sleep, scarcely knowing what he was doing, tripping and stumbling in the grave-clothes and wondering at the crowd.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Dods, Marcus
