grave-clothes

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The colours most approved for the grave-clothes are white and green.

From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous

Peter alone was moved to run to the sepulchre, where he found the empty tomb and the cast-off grave-clothes, and "departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass."

From The Two Tests: The Supernatural Claims of Christianity Tried by Two of its Own Rules by Lisle, Lionel

She was dressed in her grave-clothes, as she had been consigned to the tomb.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry

The raising of Lazarus, who appears at a door in his grave-clothes, while Christ with a wand stands before it.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

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